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An evangelical pastor delivered a fiery Sunday sermon under police guard as disgruntled churchgoers gathered outside and demanded he return $200,000 they say has gone missing on his watch.

More than a dozen estranged members of the Bethel Christian Community Church handed out flyers denouncing Mwinda Lezoka while two Montreal police officers, called to the scene by church officials, stood watch at a back entrance.

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An appellate court has upheld former Hosanna Church pastor Louis D. Lamonica's aggravated rape convictions and life sentence for his role in a sex-abuse scandal at the now-defunct Ponchatoula church.

The state 1st Circuit Court of Appeal rejected Lamonica's lone argument that his expert witness should have been allowed to testify at trial about false confessions and the influence of high-control groups or cults.

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Sacramento is the epicenter of the debate over whether the Waldorf system – whose educational philosophy goes back 100 years – is appropriate for a public school.

While enrollment climbs, the district faces a lawsuit this summer from a Northern California group that claims the Waldorf system cannot be separated from founder Rudolf Steiner's religious philosophy, making public Waldorf schools ineligible to receive taxpayer dollars.

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