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Sunday January 25, 2009

Ted Haggard faces more gay sex accusations

Disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard’s former church disclosed Friday that the gay sex scandal that caused his downfall extends to a young male church volunteer who reported having a sexual relationship with Haggard – a revelation that comes as Haggard tries to repair his public image.

The disclosure comes as Haggard, 52, is about to give a series of high-profile interviews to promote the cable documentary about his time in exile. He is scheduled to appear on CNN’s Larry King Live on Thursday, the date of the documentary’s premiere, and already has taped “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” [video]
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Friday March 28, 2008

Colorado church shooter obsessed with porn

The extent of Matthew Murray’s pornography obsession sheds light on his behavior before his killing rampage, the head of Youth With A Mission-Denver said Thursday.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Church killer waited at New Life, made phone calls before shootings

While he waited, the 24-year-old talked on his cell phone with an acquaintance from his days at Youth With a Mission in Arvada, the New Life-related missionary program he had been asked to leave after several episodes involving strange behavior in 2002.
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Tuesday December 18, 2007

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Man hurt in New Life Church shooting is told to leave grounds a week later

A man who suffered minor injuries in the fatal shootings at New Life Church was escorted off church grounds by police a week later because New Life officials thought he was “volatile” and might be disruptive.
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Tuesday December 11, 2007

Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Shooter Matthew Murray posted reworked writing of Columbine killer between attacks

A ranting screed was left on a website between shootings Sunday by the man who police say killed four people at two religious organizations.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Church gunman may have warned of violence in online postings

Authorities believe the man who killed four people at a church and missionary training center posted an anti-Christian diatribe online that closely repeated a rant by one of the Columbine killers, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Colorado gunman scared co-workers 5 years ago, heard voices one says

Matthew Murray was kicked out of a missionary training program five years ago for strange behavior, and talked about hearing voices, according to a man who served at the center with him.
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New Life Church • YWAM:

Security Guard Prayed for Divine Guidance Before Shooting Gunman

Jeanne Assam is hailed for saving countless lives in shooting a gunman outside her church, but the volunteer security guard insisted that her steady hand was a matter of divine guidance.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Church gunman “hated Christians”

A law-enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation, told The Associated Press that 24-year-old Matthew Murray of Arapahoe County was the lone gunman who killed four people and wounded five others on two church campuses before he was killed.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Colorado gunman sent hate mail to YWAM missionary center

A 24-year-old man embittered after being kicked out of missionary school three years ago carried out Sunday’s deadly rampages in Colorado Springs and Arvada, police said today.
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Monday December 10, 2007

New Life Church • YWAM:

Colorado police seek links in shootings as another victim dies

Police in two Colorado cities were looking for possible connections between deadly attacks on worshippers at a Colorado Springs megachurch and on a Christian missionary center in suburban Denver.
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New Life Church • YWAM:

3 killed in two Colorado shootings; gunman slain

Three people were killed and at least five others wounded Sunday in two shooting sprees — one at a missionary school and another at a church — that authorities said could be connected. The gunman in the second incident was killed by a church security guard, police said.
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New Life Church:

New Life Church: Two dead in Colorado church shooting

A church member and a gunman are dead and four people wounded after the gunman opened fire in a car park following a Sunday worship service at New Life Church, Colorado Springs police said.
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Sunday November 5, 2006

New Life Church • Ted Haggard:

Ted Haggard fired by New Life Church oversight board

Ted Haggard, the beleaguered pastor of a Colorado Springs evangelical church who had denied having sex with a male prostitute, has been fired by an oversight board, which found him guilty of sexually immoral conduct.
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