The divorce petition filed by Vanessa Long against Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, has been dismissed, according to DeKalb County court filings posted online that were later confirmed by the minister’s lawyer.

Bishop Eddie Long is headed back to the pulpit! The senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church has returned after taking some time off for personal reasons.

After much-back-and-forth over the issue, Bishop Eddie Long‘s wife announced that she will indeed go through with her petition to divorce the megachurch pastor. In a statement issued late Friday, Vanessa Long’s attorney says “she has determined that dismissal of her divorce petition is not appropriate at this time,” reports Associated Press. Earlier Friday, she said […]

WTF is goin’ on?!?! Hours after announcing she had filed for divorce from megachurch pastor Bishop Eddie Long, his wife, Vanessa, issued a statement Friday saying she had withdrawn her petition. Vanessa Long had issued a statement early Friday morning saying that she had filed for divorce Thursday from Long, the pastor of New Birth […]