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• What Is Antisemitism? Evangelicals Favor Different Definitions

  16-05-2022 21:35 via christianitytoday.com
  
  European Evangelical Alliance becomes latest Christian group to sign onto IHRA working definition. Others favor Jerusalem Declaration alternative.
  In a solemn ceremony last month at the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) laid a wreath of remembrance.
  It was also a pledge.
  “In awe and profound shame,” the alliance wrote on its Yad Vashem laurel, “yet with the promise for future solidarity.”
  Alongside dialogue partners f
  
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• First Pastor to Defy COVID-19 Lockdowns Wins in Court

  16-05-2022 17:36 via christianitytoday.com
  
  Following several earlier decisions siding with religious groups, the leader of a Oneness Pentecostal congregation in Louisiana declares, “Devil, you just got dethroned.”
  Tony Spell, the first pastor to publicly defy COVID-19 lockdown orders, has won his legal battle against the state of Louisiana two years later.
  The state Supreme Court decided 5 to 2 on Friday that the governor did not have a good reason to block Spell’s Oneness Pentecostal church from meeting for worship whi
  
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• Elderly Taiwanese Church in California Attacked by Shooter

  16-05-2022 07:53 via christianitytoday.com
  
  Members showed “exceptional heroism and bravery” as they overtook the gunman, who killed one person and wounded five.
  A celebratory Sunday luncheon for the former pastor of a Taiwanese congregation in California ended in “grief and disbelief” when a gunman opened fire, killing one person and injuring five others.
  Visiting from Taiwan, the longtime pastor of Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church knocked down the shooter, preventing the intruder from reloading and firing at
  
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