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January 14th, 2012
10:00 PM ET
Black church set ablaze on night of Obama's election reopensBy Bob Crowley, CNN Springfield, Massachusetts (CNN) - The phone rang at 3:00 am on Wednesday, November 5, 2008, hours after Barack Obama had been elected president. Bishop Bryant Robinson Jr. assumed this was his 6:00 a.m. wake-up call. Robinson, the pastor at the Macedonia Church of God in Christ here, asked his brother Andrew to phone him so he wouldn’t oversleep. He told his brother just to let the phone ring a little while, as he planned to just get up and not answer. So Robinson was a little annoyed when he heard the ringer again. 
January 14th, 2012
05:35 PM ET
Christian conservative leaders vote to support SantorumBy Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) – A meeting of Christian conservative leaders resulted in the group backing GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins announced Saturday. The group heard pitches from surrogates for Republican candidates on Friday, and voted to support Santorum after voting on Saturday. "After three rounds of balloting this morning, and vigorous and passionate discussion, there emerged a strong consensus around Rick Santorum as the preferred candidate for this group," Perkins said on a conference call Saturday. The group of conservative leaders was meeting at a Texas ranch to discuss the 2012 race, although ahead of the meeting it appeared unlikely the gathering would come to an agreement on backing a particular candidate. |
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