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JUANITA BYNUM BEATING UPDATE: Her husband, Bishop Thomas Weeks, has turned himself in to police.
In related news: Husband/wife minister team call it quits - read on for details.
*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 morning at the Fulton County Jail.
Bond was set at $30,000 on a charge of aggravated assault and $10,000 on a charge of terroristic threats, and a magistrate ordered Weeks to have no contact with Bynum or her sister, Tina Culpepper, reports D. Aileen Dodd and Saeed Ahmed of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Bishop Thomas Weeks' mugshot
Weeks, who made no statrement, was released on bail after he was photographed and fingerprinted.
Bynum, 48 and Weeks, 40, are co-founders of Global Destiny Church in Duluth Georgia.
They were married in 2002 in a lavish televised wedding that featured a 7.76-carat diamond ring. They separated three months ago, said Bynum's sister, Tina Culpepper.
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Weeks and Bynum pictured at their 2002 wedding
Culpepper told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the couple met for dinner Tuesday night at Concorde Grill in the Renaissance Concourse Hotel near Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to work out their differences.
Apparently things didn't go well and Weeks walked out to the parking lot at about 10:30 p.m. He then turned back around and attacked her, said Officer Ron Campbell of the Atlanta Police Dept.
Because Weeks threatened Bynum's life during the attack, police said, charges were upgraded.
"Anytime you tell a person, 'I'm going to kill you,' that moves it up to a felony," Campbell said. And her bruises were serious enough to merit felony aggravated assault charges against Weeks.
In a comment posted on her MySpace page, the evangelist said, "I am currently recovering from all of my injuries and resting well ... this, too, shall pass."
Her publicist, Amy Malone, said Bynum wants to keep the matter private.
"People are interpreting it to mean the two of them were fighting," Malone said. "They were not fighting. She was assaulted."
MEANWHILE ...
RANDY AND PAULA WHITE MARRIAGE FALTERS: Christian couple calls it quits.
*Randy White and his wife Paula White, Co-Pastors of Without Walls Church in Tampa, FL told congregants in Thursday night's church service that they are getting a divorce.
They'd avoided speculation about their deteriorating relationship for months, but last night they acknowledged the unfortunate reality of their relationship before an audience of thousands.
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