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Christian Father Beheaded by ISIS (CNS News) English Woman Recruits Women for ISIS Attacks on the West (The Telegraph) Americans Think It’s Inappropriate for Pastors to Endorse Politicians (Christian Today) Evangelicals Embracing Syrian Refugees (The New York Times) Ligon Duncan on “Should Christians Worry in These Times?” (MS Christian Living) Jonathan Edwards and the Bible’s …

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How Churches Rebuilt a Town After Its Fertilizer Plant Exploded (Christianity Today) Massachusetts: Churches May Be Covered by Transgender Discrimination Bans, as to ‘Secular Events’ (The Washington Post) What Language Did Jesus Speak? (Zondervan Blog) The Fragility of Democracy in Antiquity: The Example of Athens (The BibleMesh Blog) God Fills Our Lives with Trials (Desiring God) …

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Thousands of Muslim Refugees in Switzerland, Germany Converting to Christianity amid Disillusionment (Christian Today) Muslim Parents Pull Children Out of School Music Classes After Imam Declares Them “Haram” (Toronto Sun) Middle East Churches: ‘We Struggle Not Against Human Forces but Against the Rulers of Darkness’ (ICN) Are We About to See a Pogrom Against Christians …

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Italian Evangelicals Come Together to Support Relief Projects for Earthquake Survivors (The Christian Times) Algeria Jails Christian for Prophet Muhammad Posts (Times of Israel) Egypt: Coptic Teenagers Accused of Insulting Islam Flee to Switzerland (Daily News) UK: Anjem Choudary Jailed for Five-and-a-half Years for Urging Support of Isis (Islamist Watch) How My Stereotype of Ex-Convicts …

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Cultural Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly Dies at 92 (NBC News) The Church in the Information Age: God’s People Have Always Used Technology (byFaith Online) UNICEF Takes on Cyberbullying (The American) 40% of Migrants Seeking Asylum in Switzerland Disappear from Reception Centers (The Local) New “Ottoman Party” Forms in Turkey, Devoted to Turkish-Islamic Unity (Hurriyet Daily News) …

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Reinventing Labor Day: A Day in Need of New Meaning (ByFaith Online) Discrimination That Is Necessary for a Civil Society: A Response to David Gushee (Christianity Today) After Coup Attempt, Turkish Scholar Boldly Speaks on Armenian Genocide (Asbarez) Sufism in India Today (Islamic Pluralism) The Evolution of Islamists (Aljazeera) Militants Hit Pakistani Christian Colony (Vatican Radio) …

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