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		<title>Judge: Pastor convicted of child abuse shouldn&#8217;t get new trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2004 05:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Fulton County judge ruled Thursday that the pastor convicted of child cruelty at his Atlanta church will not get a new trial.
Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford made the ruling after hearing last week&#8217;s arguments that the court erred by letting House of Prayer pastor Arthur Allen Jr. defend himself.
But Bedford had said he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor seeks new trial in cruelty case</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[House of Prayer pastor Arthur Allen Jr., whose Atlanta congregation punished its misbehaving children with belts and whips during services, should get a new trial, a lawyer argued Thursday.
Deborah Poole of the Georgia Justice Project argued in Fulton County Superior Court that the 72-year-old minister&#8217;s judge erred in not appointing a defense attorney despite Allen&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur Allen, center of church abuse case, denied parole</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2004 18:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA &#8211; The Rev. Arthur Allen, serving a two-year sentence for publicly whipping boys in his church, was denied parole Tuesday.

House of Prayer (Atlanta)
The teachings and practices of the House of Prayer church in Atlanta, Georgia are outside the norms of Biblical Christianity.  The pastor&#8217;s control over his followers identify this church as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KKK, House of Prayer: Free Rev. Allen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2003 22:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A white supremacy group is joining a predominantly Black Baptist church in demanding a controversial church leader be freed from prison.
Members of the Ku Klux Klan and House of Prayer parishioners will be marching side by side outside the Fulton County Courthouse Monday. The rally is in protest to Reverend Arthur Allen being sentenced for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KKK, Black Church May Become Unlikely Allies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATHENS, Ga. &#8212; A dispute over the Ten Commandments could bring together some unlikely allies &#8212; a Ku Klux Klan group and a predominantly black church. 
Joseph Harper, who describes himself as the imperial wizard of the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, has invited members of Atlanta&#8217;s House of Prayer to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House of Prayer pastor to serve 2 years for violating probation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pastor of the House of Prayer church, who was convicted on child cruelty charges and evaded arrest for five months, was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for violating probation.
The Rev. Arthur Allen, 71, was found guilty in October of brutally whipping two boys, then 7 and 10, at the northwest Atlanta church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fugitive Reverend Gets Day in Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The central figure in a controversial case of child abuse in church is expected in court Monday.
Reverend Arthur Allen, of the House of Prayer church, is due in DeKalb County court for an alleged violation of his parole. Police caught up with the elusive Allen a week ago when an officer sought to arrest him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fugitive minister&#8217;s arrest at Cobb creek uneventful</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Arthur Allen Jr. spent his last minutes of freedom sitting on a rock by a creek, holding his infant, Mary, and watching his seven other children play.
&#8220;You just never know who you&#8217;re going to come across out here in the woods,&#8221; said Steve Reynolds, the park ranger who discovered the fugitive pastor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House of Prayer leader arrested</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five months on the run: Preacher who defied verdict on excessive spanking is caught in park
The leader of the House of Prayer church was arrested Monday night after eluding authorities for nearly five months.
The Rev. Arthur Allen Jr. was taken into custody about 9 p.m. after park rangers spotted him parked illegally in an area [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House of Prayer pastor arrested after five months as fugitive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leader of the House of Prayer church, who was convicted on child cruelty charges and evaded arrest for five months after missing a probation hearing, was taken into custody Monday night.
The Rev. Arthur Allen, 71, was arrested by National Park Service rangers who found him in a parked car and turned him over to [...]]]></description>
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