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People Are Now Taking Placebo Pills to Deal With Their Health Problems—And It’s Working (Time Magazine) Woman Donates Kidney to Stranger Because ‘God Told Me to Do This’ (The Stream) The World’s Most Committed Christians Live in Africa, Latin America – and the U.S. (Pew Research) China: A Forgotten People? (World Magazine) Commentary: Phones Are Changing the …

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Jesus Befriended Prostitutes. So This Victorian-Era Woman Did Too (Christianity Today) Former Slave Sees God’s Answer to His Prayers (BP News) Malaysia Accused of ‘State-Sponsored Homophobia’ after LGBT Crackdown (The Guardian) Commentary: The 50th Anniversary of the Soviet Crushing of the Prague Spring and Its Modern Parallels (The Daily Signal) Commentary: What Part of the …

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Turkey’s Christians Are Facing Increasing Persecution (Catholic Herald) Australia: Islamic leader Accused of Illegal Land Clearing Claims His group is Exempt from Australian Law (ABC) Please Stop Calling Us Mormons, Says Leader of Cult (The Guardian) Upholding life Down Under: Australia Blocks Euthanasia in Its Territories (World Magazine) Commentary: Compelling Tolerance (First Things) Book Review: Jonathan Merritt …

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UK: Islamic Scholar Calls for End to ‘Muslim Social Self-exclusion’ (Herald Scotland) Christian College Drops Sex Standards in Law School Bid (Christianity Today) Syria’s Disappearing Christian Villages (World Magazine) Pope Francis Pens Scathing Response To Clergy Sexual Abuse Scandal (Huffington Post) David and Goliath: The Center for Medical Progress’ David Daleiden Keeps Fighting the Abortion …

Selected News Stories from Around the World* — Monday, August 20 Read More »

The 70thAnniversary of Israel to Be Celebrated with a Prayer Breakfast in the South Pacific, on the Cook Islands (Cook Island News) London Bus Driver Told He Can Preach for a Half-Hour a Week Outside St. Paul’s Cathedral (Church Times) British Court Recognises Sharia Law in Landmark Divorce Case (The Telegraph) Satanists Erect Statue Outside …

Selected News Stories from Around the World* — Saturday, August 18 Read More »

Victims of Sprayed Veterinary Sedative, 130 Mennonite Women in Bolivia Raped While They Slept (National Post) Pope Expresses “Shame and Sorrow” at Indictment of 301 Sexually-Abusive Priests in Pennsylvania (The Telegraph) Korean Presbyterians Upset that Retiring Pastor of Mega-Mega-Church Named His Son as Successor (Yonhap News) A Dutch Court Has Ruled ‘Pastafarians’ Cannot Wear Colanders …

Selected News Stories from Around the World* — Friday, August 17 Read More »