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The Southlake pastor who last month pleaded guilty to five counts of indecency with a child has asked a Dallas County court to toss the victim’s defamation lawsuit against him, court filings show.
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Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2025
Court records show that as recently as July 2018, Assemblies of God district officials sought to restore a New Jersey pastor accused of molesting five children.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 30 Oct. 2025
Wang Yi, the pastor arrested in 2018, is still in prison today.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Bowman attended Howard-Browne's Bible college and his Cincinnati church is an affiliate of the pastor's ministry.
—Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2025
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Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2025
Court records show that as recently as July 2018, Assemblies of God district officials sought to restore a New Jersey pastor accused of molesting five children.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 30 Oct. 2025
Wang Yi, the pastor arrested in 2018, is still in prison today.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Bowman attended Howard-Browne's Bible college and his Cincinnati church is an affiliate of the pastor's ministry.
—Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastor
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As for the rector’s other housemates – a pair of scene-stealing dachshunds – Lewis is happily resigned to being upstaged.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
28 Sep. 2025
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More than two dozen UVA Health leaders signed a letter to the university's rector and interim president, asking them to give Rosner the permanent position, the organization said in a news release.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Hopkins' performance is wide-ranging, swinging the pendulum from an eccentric clergyman to a man overcome by darkness.—
Michael Lee Simpson,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, cousin Edmund, an aspiring clergyman, falls under the charms of Mary Crawford, written by Austen as a charming but immoral woman.—
Emily Zarevich,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Sep. 2025
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The archdiocese’s vicar general, the Rev. John Riley, has been appointed as the parish’s temporary administrator, the archdiocese said.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
22 Sep. 2025
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Aquila served as a parochial vicar in two parishes from 1976 to 1982 and then as pastor at Denver’s Guardian Angels Parish from 1982 to 1987.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2025
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It was said that the room contained a troubled spirit and that the parson was supposed to bless the space.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Among the beetle-collecting country parsons of his day, it was often assumed that the world had been created six thousand years ago and that many geological anomalies could be explained by Noah’s Flood.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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In an area that used to produce influential Catholic churchmen the way the Dodgers churned out Rookies of the Year, Gomez has amounted to the living equivalent of a hair shirt: a mode of piety that serves no one but the wearer.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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Martini was a key figure in a group of churchmen who met annually in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to ponder how best to blunt John Paul and Ratzinger’s reactionary thrust.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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Scar, a blue merle Australian shepherd, was trained by his owner to be a medical alert and light mobility service dog.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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Zuriguel and his colleagues worked with a shepherd in the mountains outside the city of Zaragoza to run a hundred sheep at a time through a doorway to receive food on the other side.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
27 Oct. 2025
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What to Know Maloyan was an Armenian bishop and martyr who was killed during the Ottoman genocide in 1915.—
Jenni Fink,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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In Olympus, an ancient Lycian port city in the Turkish province of Antalya, archaeologists recently unearthed the remnants of a Christian bishop's vast bathhouse.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Kent State was reduced to a single photo because the press was far more centralized at the time, and had the power and the influence to edit, curate, and promote a particular version of an event.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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The discussion will dive into how Shudder curates and champions cutting-edge horror content for its devoted fanbase.—
William Earl,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Pastor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastor. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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