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Since the two churches reopened, several people affiliated with Holy Ghost Church in Texas and Catoosa Baptist Tabernacle in Georgia have tested positive for COVID-19, prompting each congregation to take the precaution of closing once more.

Pastor Franklin Ndifor from Douala, Cameroon, died less than a week after being diagnosed with COVID-19. The pastor had been praying for and laying hands on followers who were sick, some with the coronavirus.

"Today my beautiful father is more alive than he has ever been. We thank God for him," Sarah Davis of RZIM writes of her late father. The apologist passed away this morning after a brief fight with cancer.

Greg Surratt has shared a message in remembrance of Darrin Patrick, during which he told part of Patrick’s story and explored what the Bible says about how to respond when we lose a friend.

“I would never with knowledge put anyone in [harm’s] way,” Pastor Jacobsen writes. “I am fully aware that some people may not understand that it is essential for our church to be together in community.”

“The book, pushing the belief that the Coronavirus is God’s judgment,...singles out, among other things, ‘the sin of homosexual intercourse’ as deserving ‘due penalty.’"

While Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has moved the state into phase one of its reopening strategy, allowing churches to operate at 25% of their capacity, Pastor Tony Spell is digging in his heels.

Joyce Lin, a pilot with Mission Aviation Fellowship, died on May 12 while transporting school supplies and COVID-19 rapid test kits to a remote village in Indonesia.