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Archbishop Akanya tasks Christians on godly living
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE (press release) (blog)
He highlighted the ways Christians could be the light as follows: “making up our minds to be the light; imitating Christ; glorifying God in all we say or do; living righteously; dying to flesh and sin; seeking heavenly things; filling our hearts with ...

PAPER PULPIT: Christians should come together and support 'team'
Apalachicola Times
I recently wrote how being a witness for Christ is akin to being a football fan. Today, I realized that the 2017 SEC season is drawing nigh. For the 14 teams, beginning the first weekend in September, there will be 56 games in 13 weeks, ending with the ...
Advice for busy ChristiansKnoxville News Sentinel

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Trump should figure out a deal to protect Christians in India
The Hill (blog)
As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet with President Trump this week, a question is looming: what will President Trump say about the rise in brutal persecution of Christians, Muslims and other religious minorities in India? Can we ...

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Conversions gradually transforming Orthodox Christianity
Baltimore Sun
Father Gregory Gilbert is a Greek Orthodox priest who is neither culturally nor ethnically Greek. (Kenneth K. Lam, Baltimore Sun video). Jonathan M. PittsContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun. Growing up a Southern Baptist in eastern Tennessee, Brent ...

Guestview: Christianity is not about empty cross
Pensacola News Journal
I grew up at the First Baptist Church downtown, and while I have since joined the First United Methodist Church a block down the hill, one of the things I am most grateful for in my life is that the church of my childhood taught me scripture and where ...

ISIL promises more terrorist attacks against Christians in Europe
AMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:15 P.M.) – The Islamic State (ISIL) published another leaflet this week, promising to commit more acts of terror against European Christians. ISIL's propaganda wing released a copy of the leaflet online, Friday, vowing to ...

Protecting Egypt And Its Coptic Christians
HuffPost
In many ways, the future of Egypt will be shaped by how the government and the majority of Egyptians treat the country's minority Christian community. Will Egypt be an open, tolerant, and creative society? Or will it be closed and intolerant, looking ...
Six Militants Detained in Egypt Over Plotting Attacks on Christian ChurchesSputnik International

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Christian families beaten and left without water in latest horrifying persecution
Express.co.uk
They claim other Christians have been targeted in Jalalabad village, Ghazipur District and the targeted hate campaign is affecting their livelihood after the extremists cut off the water supply to their crops. The attack comes as India records more ...

Iraqi Christians Detained by ICE Shouldn't Be Deported
National Review
In 1987, there were 1.4 million Christians in Iraq. There remain today fewer than 250,000, who for the last 15 years have lived an existence beset by Islamic jihadists — in the mid 2000s, those unleashed by the fall of Saddam Hussein; now, by the ...
US judge halts the deportation of more than 100 Iraqi ChristiansCatholic Herald Online
Detained Iraqi Christians Looking For Pardon To Avoid DeportationCBS Detroit
Judge Halts Deportations of Detroit Christians to IraqChristianityToday.com
Christian Post -CBN News -American Civil Liberties Union -American Civil Liberties Union
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Detroit's Iraqi Christians Could Use Some Mercy From Washington
Wall Street Journal (subscription)
Dreams have been haunting Haydar Butris. From his prison bed in Youngstown, Ohio, the 39-year-old has envisioned the Islamic State hacking his body with knives and beheading him. But waking doesn't end his nightmare. Barring a legal miracle, Mr. Butris ...

California's travel ban — targeted at Christians?
Washington Times
Because, after all, it's the traditional family folk — the Christians, the Bible-thumpers, the Jesus freaks — who advocate for man-woman marriages, who oppose boys using girls' bathrooms, who resist the cultural breakdown of the once-normal nuclear ...
Attorney General Becerra: Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota and Texas Added to List of Restricted State Travel | State ...California Department of Justice - State of California
Texas, three more states on California's banned travel listSacramento Bee
California attorney general adds 4 states to state travel banSFGate
Fox News -Texas Tribune
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Only 17 percent of serious Christians have biblical worldview, new poll from evangelical group finds
Tulsa World
In an age when Americans are exposed to a broad range of cultures, faiths and lifestyles, only 17 percent of serious Christians have a biblical worldview, according to the Barna Group, an evangelical Christian polling group that has been tracking ...

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Christians battle GuideStar on 'hate group' tag
Washington Times
“I think that what GuideStar is doing [with the hate labels] is another attack on conservative Christian organizations and individuals,” said William “Jerry” Boykin, a retired Army general now serving as executive vice president of the FRC, the Daily ...
Leading charity site labels top Christian organizations 'hate groups'TheBlaze.com

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How the Church is helping Christians return to Aleppo
Catholic News Agency
Christians who fled Aleppo because of the four year battle for the city are now returning, and in the face of such challenges as poverty, destruction, and a shortages of basic goods, they persevere with the help of the local Church. Fr. Ibrahim ...

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Study spotlights Hispanic Christians' views on Israel
BP News
Hispanic Christians seem reluctant to take sides in the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians. Two-thirds (66 percent) sympathize with the hardships faced by both Israelis and Palestinians. A quarter (27 percent) sympathize more with Israelis.

Study: when it comes to detecting racial inequality, white Christians have a blind spot
Vox
But among white Christians, those figures dropped significantly: Only 36 percent of white evangelicals, 50 percent of white mainline Protestants, and 47 percent of white Catholics reported perceiving discrimination against black people (the survey did ...

Deposing Assad Could Hurt Syria's Christians
National Review
In Syria, most Christians and other religious minorities, primarily Alawites and Druze, support Assad, certainly according to conventional wisdom. Polling data such as they are indicate that a majority of the total Syrian population, not just religious ...

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