Cuba to Release over 2,000 Prisoners amid U.S. Talks
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France’s Highest Administrative Court Says the Soccer Federation Can Ban Headscarves in Matches
The ruling is likely to refuel the lingering debate on secularism — still volatile more than a century after the 1905 law on separation of church and state that established it as a principle of the French Republic.
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Christian Charity Holds Protest Outside Barclays Bank HQ over ‘ex-LGBT discrimination’
"We will be going to Barclays HQ to remind them that the ex-gay community exists and deserves equal treatment and protection."
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The Christian Risking His Life on the Front Lines of the Climate Struggle
In the UK, if we take a stand against fossil fuel companies we can be arrested, but our lives are not in danger. It's a different story in Nigeria.
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Vietnamese Evangelicals Fear Being Implicated in Anti-Gov’t Violence
Ethnic Christians in Vietnam are bracing for potential fallout should they be blamed for recent anti-government violence
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Teaching your children to pray for the persecuted church | Baptist Press
A six-year-old boy looked up at my husband, Nik, with eyes as big as saucers. Those eyes are a sight forever etched on my mind. After a Sunday morning service, his mom, Debbie, asked us if her little boy, David, could talk to us before the evening service. We arrived a few…
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Riots Break Out Near Paris after Death of 17-Year-Old
In a video still frame, two police officers question a driver, one pointing a gun towards the window of a yellow car, in Nanterre, France. Ohana_FNG via AP Pol...
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Russian missile hits pizza restaurant, killing at least 11 Ukrainians
Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday arrested a man they said helped to orchestrate a Russian missile strike on a popular pizza restaurant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday. The att...
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Disappointment as MPs pass regulations on teaching about abortion in Northern Ireland schools
MPs have voted overwhelmingly in support of regulations forcing Northern Ireland schools to teach schoolchildren aged 11 to 16 about abortion.
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Man who vandalized Last Supper site in Jerusalem banned from Old City for 30 days
A man suspected of being drunk vandalized a site believed to be where the Last Supper took place in what police are calling an attack of persecution against Christians in Israel
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Pakistan aims to try blasphemy cases under anti-terror law
A government concession to demands by a Muslim extremist political party to allow blasphemy charges under Pakistan's anti-terrorism laws has raised fears of more injustice for those accused under the harsh statutes, sources said.
