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Christian Responses to #Ferguson Focus on Fear, Injustice and White Privilege (The Christian Post) Boko Haram on Course to Create an Islamic State in Nigeria, Destroying Christian Towns (Christian Today) Iraq: Mosul’s Christians Recount Flight from Historic Home Under ISIS Threat (AINA) Who Will Stand Up for the Christians? (The New York Times) D. A. […]

In Pakistan, 20 Hindu Girls Are Abducted and Forced to Convert to Islam Each Month (Aljazeera) Southeast Asia Fears ISIS Recruits Will Bring Shariah Terror Home (World) Matt Chandler on “More on Ferguson and White Privilege” (The Village Church) Pope Endorses Use of Force in Iraq to Protect Minorities (AINA) Pope Wants China Dialogue, Freedom

Why It Feels Like a Crime to Be a Christian in Pakistan (NBC News) Kurdish Forces Retake Two Christian Towns in Iraq (FOX News) Hopes that Christianity Is Coming in from the Cold in North Korea (CNN) The 6,800 Kilometer Iron Curtain Has Become a Bike Trail (St. Petersburg Times) Ferguson Cleanup Organized by Church

Churches Unite, Call for Peace in St. Louis (World) Pray for Ferguson (Desiring God) To Date or Not To Date? (Reformation 21) Worship Songwriter Vicky Beeching Comes Out as Gay (Christianity Today) The Bibles Are Back: Navy Lodges Scuttle Removal Plan (The Washington Post) Clashing Visions Threaten Religious Liberty Panel Renewal (The Washington Times) Seven

How Could You Behead a Child in the Name of God? (The Christian Post) China Plans to Introduce Nationalized Christian Theology (Christian Today) Church Accuses JP Morgan of Mismanagement, Self-Dealing (IBJ) Showboating Runner Stripped of Gold (The Telegraph) Five Principles of the New Sexual Morality (The Gospel Coalition) Should I Tell My Spouse about Struggles

“Christianity Is Finished in Iraq,” Says Nineveh Priest (The Christian Post) How to Raise Up Leaders in the Church (The Gospel Coalition) Turkey’s Religious Ghost Town (BBC) U.S. Navy Catching Hell for Yanking Bibles (The Washington Times) US Court Will Not Delay Ruling Striking Down Virginia’s Traditional Marriage Law (The Guardian) The Taxman Cometh to