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According to USA Today, Christian rapper TobyMac’s oldest child has died, a representative confirmed, but few details were released immediately. The rapper opened up about the sudden death of Truett Foster McKeehan, 21, in a heartfelt statement to the USA Today Network — Tennessee, where he recalled how his son had “joy that took the room when he entered. He was a magnetic son and brother and friend,” he continued. “If you met him you knew him, you remembered him. His smile, his laugh, the encouragement he offered with words or even without. He had an untamable grand personality and dreams to match. And he hated being put in a box.”According to Christian Post, A second Bible translator has been killed by suspected Fulani extremists in the civil war-ridden Anglophone region in southern Cameroon this week, a ministry source has confirmed. Bible translator Benjamin Tem was murdered in his home in the Wum region Sunday night, reports Efi Tembon, a Cameroonian activist who heads a ministry called Oasis Network for Community Transformation.
According to Christian Post, The governor of Texas is intervening in a custody case amid controversy over a decision of a Dallas jury allowing a mother to proceed with gender transitioning against the wishes of his father. The case of James Younger, a 7-year-old boy who has been at the center of a complicated and bitter divorce and custody fight in Texas because the mother insists the child is transgender and his father says he is not, has gained national attention this week in light of a Monday 11-1 jury decision in favor of the mother, Anne Georgulas, awarding her custody.
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