Category Archives: Gospel News

Funeral Held For Wife, Grandson of Timothy Wright

Rev. remains hospitalized in critical condition.
Family and friends from around the country gathered at a Brooklyn church Monday to say goodbye to the wife and grandson of the Rev. Timothy Wright.
 
      While the pastor remains in critical condition at a Pennsylvania hospital, a funeral was held for Betty Wright and grandson Daniel “D.J.” Wright at [...]

T.D. Jakes Writes Piece On Obama Nomination

CNN.com has posted a commentary from Bishop T.D. Jakes regarding Barack Obama and the night he rewrote history books by becoming the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.       
       “Last night, I, like most Americans of all stripes, watched with visible goose bumps as history was made,” wrote Jakes, who heads the Potter’s House in Dallas. “I sat [...]

Bishop Thomas Weeks Publicist Responds To Juanita Bynum’s Publicist

 
Angelo Ellerbee has contacted EUR Gospel/EURweb.com to respond to Juanita Bynum’s publicist, Amy Malone, for statements made in the 02-11-08 EUR Gospel edition regarding “a request from Bishop Weeks‘ uncle, Bishop Leo Smith, to speak at his conference in Barbados this June.”
Below is Angelo Ellerbee’s full response/rebuttal statement:
“In response to Amy Malone’s (of GIC Public [...]

Will Juanita Bynum’s High-Profile Domestic Violence Incident Impact Women in the Church?

 Evangelist and gospel singer Juanita Bynum, who was involved in a high-profile domestic violence incident and has filed for divorce as a result, said she would focus her ministry on helping victims of domestic violence.
In an interview Wednesday on “The Tom Joyner Morning Show,” Bynum said she had been in abusive relationships in the past [...]

Bishop Thomas Weeks Agrees To Divorce From Juanita Bynum

Attorneys for a minister accused in an assault on his estranged televangelist wife say he will speak out today.
The lawyers say Thomas Weeks the Third had held out hope that he and Juanita Bynum could reconcile even after she filed a petition for divorce on Monday, but now he has decided not to stand in [...]

Bishop Denies Abuse: ‘I Walked Away That Night’

The husband of evangelist Juanita Bynum held a press conference Friday at his Duluth Church to tell the world he is not an abuser of women.
Thomas W. Weeks, 40, also a preacher, said he felt compelled to speak his peace after his famous wife announced to the public recently that she was “the new face [...]

Statlers, Winans Headed to Gospel Hall

The Statler Brothers, the Winans, Phil Keaggy, Larnelle Harris and Joe Moscheo will be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, the hall announced Thursday.

 

The artists will be inducted at a Gospel Music Association ceremony in Nashville on Oct. 29.
The Statler Brothers — Harold Reid, Phil Balsley, Jimmy Fortune and Don Reid — began [...]

For ‘prophetess’ of True Romance, Marriage A Mess

 With each sheet she wrapped around her body that day, the crowd roared for “Prophetess” Juanita Bynum.
At the singles’ conference, sponsored by fellow evangelist T.D. Jakes, Bynum spoke to her audience in plain, smoky-nightclub language about her battle with the flesh and her longing for a husband. The bedsheets represented all the empty sex she’d [...]

Group Calls For Suspension of Minister Over Alleged Beating

 
 

 
A national group of black churches is calling for a minister accused of beating his televangelist wife to be suspended from the ministry. Thomas Weeks III, known to his followers as Bishop Weeks, is charged with aggravated assault and making terroristic threats for an alleged attack on his wife, Juanita Bynum. Police say Bynum was [...]

Evangelist Bynum Files For Divorce

She plans to attend Obama fund-raiser, seeks to talk to candidate about domestic violence
National evangelist Juanita Bynum apparently has filed for divorce, more than two weeks after the alleged attack by her estranged husband, Bishop Thomas Weeks III.
A relative on Thursday said that Bynum, 48, has filed for divorce but court records were not available [...]

Charges Against Husband Put New Focus on Televangelist

 Juanita Bynum is known and admired by thousands as a fiery evangelist whose no-nonsense, lead-by-less-than-perfect-example message of self-improvement was seemingly illustrated by her fairy-tale marriage to a man who also is a widely known minister.
The romance, which included a million-dollar wedding, became a nightmare last week when Thomas W. Weeks III was charged with choking [...]

Accused Husband of Televangelist Juanita Bynum Preaches Sunday

 
The minister husband of televangelist and gospel singer Juanita Bynum took the pulpit at his church just two days after surrendering to authorities on charges he beat his wife.
Thomas W. Weeks III, known to his followers as Bishop Weeks, faces charges of aggravated assault and making “terroristic” threats in a confrontation outside a hotel Aug. [...]

Juanita Bynum Beating Update: Her Husband, Bishop Thomas Weeks, Has Turned Himself In To Police

      Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III has turned himself in.
      He is being charged with felony aggravated assault and making terrorist threats against his wife, televangelist Juanita Bynum, after he allegedly stomped and choked her in a hotel parking lot and threatened to kill her.
 
      Weeks was accompanied by his lawyer when he surrendered this [...]

Myron Butler & Levi To Release “Stronger”

Sophomore Gospel CD hits stores August 28

Four-time Stellar Award winner Myron Butler and Levi follow up their critically acclaimed debut project Set Me Free, with their sophomore CD appropriately titled Stronger, which is scheduled to hit stores Tuesday, August 28.  
 
      Stronger maintains the vibe and lyrical relevance from the singer’s debut album. Butler modestly refers [...]

Chicago Church Honors A Gospel Music Great

Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago is honoring the man known as the father of gospel music. The church and its choir put on a musical tribute to Thomas A. Dorsey Sunday afternoon.
Dorsey was the music director of the church from 1932 till 1970. His most famous work is “Take My Hand, Precious Lord.”
Pilgrim Baptist was [...]

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