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Christians and Yazidis experiencing persecution in Syria after US troop withdrawal, commission hears
A religious freedom scholar told the United States' top religious freedom panel that the U.S. troop pullback in northeastern Syria has created a "vacuum" that has allowed Turkish forces and affiliated opposition groups to carry out war crimes against Christians and other religious minorities.
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27 killed in attacks on Christian villages in Mali
Suspected Islamic radicals killed at least 27 people, some of whom were burned alive, in a series of attacks that spanned from last Tuesday to Wednesday evening in three villages that advocates say are predominantly inhabited by Christians in Central Mali, officials said.
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Trump makes religious freedom a 'national security imperative'
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday instructing the U.S. State Department to prioritize international religious freedom in its implementation of foreign policy and budget $50 million per year toward the advancement of religious freedom.
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Man sentenced to 26 years after abducting Christian girl and forcing her into Muslim marriage
A federal court in Nigeria sentenced a man to 26 years in prison after he abducted a Christian teenager from her home and forced her into an Islamic marriage in 2015.
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Ban on religious gatherings is unlawful, France's top court rules
France's supreme court for administrative justice has ruled that the government's absolute ban on religious gatherings in hopes of stopping the spread of COVID-19 is unlawful.
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Hundreds of Christians killed in Nigeria this year - report
About 620 Christians have been killed and hundreds of homes and churches damaged in Nigeria since the start of the year as attacks carried about by Fulani radicals and Islamic terrorists continue, a Nigerian NGO has warned.
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GOD TV says it will obey regulations in Israel amid fears of being shut down
The head of the international Christian television network GOD TV has said that Israeli authorities are looking to "shut down" its new Hebrew-language Christian channel after concerns were raised about whether the channel will proselytize to Jews.
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ISIS has 'returned in force' to Iraq
As governments try to combat the spread of COVID-19, there has been a resurgence of deadly attacks by the Islamic State in Iraq over two years after the group's territorial defeat.
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GOD TV in Israel threatened with closure
A new evangelical Christian television channel in Israel has been threatened with being shut down if it engages in any type of missionary activity
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Abducted seminarian was killed because he shared Christian faith with his captors
A member of a Nigerian highway gang that's responsible for killing a kidnapped Catholic seminarian earlier this year admitted in a recent media interview that the aspiring priest was killed because he wouldn't stop proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ to his captors.
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Judge says Wheaton College students can evangelize in Chicago park
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Wheaton College students who were barred from evangelizing in a downtown Chicago park must be allowed to exercise their First Amendment rights until the legal dispute is resolved.
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Another church is shut down as crackdown continues in Algeria
Yet another Christian church has been ordered to shut down in Algeria as the government's crackdown on houses of worship continues.
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Family of Leah Sharibu deny reports Christian teenager has given birth to Boko Haram militant in captivity
The family of abducted Nigerian Christian teenager Leah Sharibu has spoken out after reports published over the weekend suggested that their daughter has given birth to the son of a Boko Haram commander and that she was forced to accept Islam.
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Pastor execution shocks Christians; Answers demanded from government
Christians are demanding answers and calling for three days of prayer and fasting after the execution of one of a pastor.
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Biden accuses Trump of fuelling hatred in address to black church leaders
Democrat presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden told hundreds of black church leaders that President Donald Trump is fanning the flames of hatred in the United States.
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