Carlos and Sophie Parrish’s joy at the birth of their fifth child is clouded by fears an Arkansas state agency will take their baby because they are Tony Alamo Christian Ministries members.

The couple’s four other children, a 7-year-old boy and three girls ages 5, 3 and 1, were taken by Arkansas Department of Human Services officials and placed in foster care.

“I feel in my mind a battle of hope and doom at the same time,” Carlos Parrish said. “My child being born, even through all of this, is like a ray of hope. I keep telling Sophia that God will protect this baby.” <...

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