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Sex Trafficking and Forced Marriages Flourish under China’s One-Child Policy (World) Turkish Constitutional Court Opens Way for Child Brides and Polygamy (Hurriyet Daily News) Senate Will Introduce Pro-Life Bill Next Week Banning Late-Term Abortions after 20 Weeks (Life News) Yeshiva Students Try to Block Christian Mass in Jerusalem (Times of Israel) Stephen Hawking: ‘I Would …

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Supreme Court Boosts Workers Who Claim Religious Bias (USA Today) The Episcopal Church Won a Legal Battle over a Church Building, Then Got Rid of It (World) Critic Say Vatican’s Cardinal Pell Has Been “Callous” in Child Sexual-Abuse Hearings (Manila Times) Public Apologies Spur Church Discipline Warnings (Baptist Press) NYT Accused of Hypocrisy, Favoring Islam …

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Texas Floods: Houston Churches Turn to God for Support (IB Times) Church of England “One Generation from Extinction” After Dramatic Loss of Followers (The Independent) As Anglican Women Bishops Assume Posts, New Calls for Female References to God (The Telegraph) More Catholics, Fewer Receiving Sacraments: A New Report Maps a Changing Church (RNS) Pope’s Direction …

Selected News Stories from Around the World* — Monday, June 1 Read More »

Possible Boy Scout Gay Leadership Change Has Religious Groups Weighing Options (RNS) Race and the American Church (Reformation 21) How a Rare 19th-Century Bible Almost Got Away (Collector’s Weekly) Brazil’s Biblical Soap Opera “The Ten Commandments” Is a TV Hit (The Guardian) Germany Passes Japan to Have World’s Lowest Birth Rate (BBC) Lincoln and the World-Changing …

Selected News Stories from Around the World* — Saturday, May 30 Read More »

Top Auction Bidder for Family Christian Stores Will Keep Doors Open (MLive) Popular Columbus Church Tour Now Available on DVD (Columbus Dispatch) Some Indians Unhappy with Canonization of Father Junipero Serra (Al-Jazeera) Boko Haram Hacks to Death Dozens, Including Scores of Christians (The Christian Post) Islamist Radicals ‘Recruited Freely’ at British University (Clarion Project) Why …

Selected News Stories from Around the World* — Friday, May 29 Read More »

Methodist Church in Britain Apologizes for Historical Abuse (The Guardian) 3500 People Leave the Church Every Day (The Christian Post) Ed Stetzer: Too Many Churches in Australia Are Stagnant (Bible Society) Two Presbyterian Pastors Face Death Penalty in Sudan, Persecuted for Their Christian Faith (The Christian Post) Armenian Church Sues Turkey for Return of Seized …

Selected News Stories from Around the World* — Thursday, May 28 Read More »