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Month: January 2015

Selected News Stories from Around the World* — Saturday, Jan. 31

A Victory for Religious Freedom in Canada (First Things) Paradise Lost: Is Christianity Doomed in the Middle East? (New Statesman) Churches Destroyed in Muslim Mob Attack but Bible Survives (FOX News) Super Sunday for Saddleback: Church to Open Costa Mesa Campus (Orange County Register) Fight Over Houston LGBT Policy Goes to Court (World) Three Parent …

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Selected News Stories from Around the World* — Friday, Jan. 30

7 Things You Should Know about the Ongoing Coup in Yemen (The Gospel Coalition) UK Closing Christian School for Religious Intolerance (CBN) Welsh Church, Dating to 1822, Has Only 20 Attendees in an Auditorium Which Seats 1000 (South Wales Evening Post) Alabama Judges May Issue Gay “Marriage” Licenses (Baptist Press) Auschwitz Is No Place for …

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Selected News Stories from Around the World* — Thursday, Jan. 29

Despite Boko Haram, Gospel Impacts Nigeria (Baptist Press) YWAM Missionaries Won’t Be Deported over Visa Issue (Christianity Today) The Great Commission as a Means of Grace (Desiring God) Priced out of New York, American Bible Society decamps to Philadelphia (The Washington Post) Top Catholics and Evangelicals: Gay “Marriage” Worse than Divorce or Cohabitation (RNS) Nurturing …

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Selected News Stories from Around the World* — Wednesday, Jan. 28

Mayor de Blasio Refuses to Drop Church Worship Ban in Public Schools (The Blaze) Church Plans “Jesus the Homeless” Statue in Downtown Orlando (WKMG) Nigerian Christians Cry Out for World Intervention (Assist News) Shariah Law Operating Unofficially in Texas Tribunal (News Max) Islamist Apologists Are Giving Western Policy-Makers a False Choice between Islamism and Jihadism …

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Selected News Stories from Around the World* — Tuesday, Jan. 27

Religious Liberty and Persecution: a Global Perspective (SBTS) Holocaust Survivors’ 70 Years of Trauma: ‘I Could Cry Nonstop, Even Now’ (The Telegraph) Syrian Kurds ‘Drive Islamic State Out of Kobane’ (BBC) Your Next Bible Will Be a Hologram? Microsoft Invents the Future of Intensive Bible Study? (Christianity Today) The Most (and Least) Bible-Minded Cities in America (American …

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A Prophet Visits Harvard (1978)

Before his 1978 Harvard commencement address, Russian exile Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was the darling of the American liberal intelligentsia; when he finished, he was a pariah. (The New York Times called him “dangerous” and a “zealot.”1) They were expecting a grateful message, worshipful of their “Great Society.” Instead, he rebuked them for their cowardice, legalism, superficiality, …

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