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A megachurch's ministry program used inappropriate tactics to 'train' teens, ex-interns say Mohammed Syed and Corky Siemaszko © Provided by NBC News Teenagers pitted against each other during "fight nights" staged by a youth pastor running a Christian leadership training program. "Boot camps" where the trainees learn the way of the Cross by exercising until they vomit or soil themselves — and by hefting heavy logs on their shoulders through the sweltering summer heat. Participants who are Black or suspected of being gay taunted with racist and homophobic slurs and female i...

Spencer Solves It: Family that lost father to coronavirus gets Christmas surprise Bill Spencer, Investigative Reporter Updated:  Tags:  HOUSTON – Sitting on the couth with all five of her children, Shearle Williams fights back the tears as she looks at photographs of her loving husband, Kim. In early October, Kim contracted COVID-19. The virus progressed to coronavirus-related pneumonia. The night before Thanksgiving, Shearle got an urgent phone call from the hospital. “I get a call from Oak Bend, telling me to come,” she said. “When I get there at 1, he was in cardiac arrest again....