Tag: Richland Public Health

Is the fear of GOD driving wheels of justice in Northern Ohio? (AUDIO)

NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — Clergy initiatives combating pornography and human trafficking in the Buckeye Bible Belt is resulting in what one pastor calls a “divine dragnet” after U.S. Marshals conducted recent sting operations. Pastor Bruce Philippi of Journey Life Center in Mansfield is one of the seventy-four clergy cosigners calling

Group of 74 evangelical leaders call for porn to be classified as health crisis

MANSFIELD — This past June the U.S. State Department identified nearly twenty-five million people entrapped in the modern-day slavery of human trafficking. In response to the crisis, fifteen states have officially declared pornography an epidemic and public health crisis. If local clergy have their way, Ohio may be the next

Health officials briefed by 27 clergy on link between church attendance & improved health

MANSFIELD — Last week to commemorate the 2016 National Family Health History Day, twenty-seven area pastors from Richland County, Ohio sent a correspondence to health care stakeholders in North Central Ohio regarding a case study involving disease prevention.  The twenty-year study, conducted by Harvard University, concluded that an effective way to prevent disease