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• Brisbane Christian school found to have discriminated against Cook Islands boy by demanding haircut

  11-07-2020 04:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Australian Christian College Moreton ordered to apologise to Cyrus Taniela after ‘discrimination on the basis of race’A private Christian school in Brisbane has been found to have discriminated against a five-year-old Cook Islands boy for threatening to expel him for having long hair, grown for cultural reasons.The Australian Christian College Moreton was ordered to apologise to Cyrus Taniela after it told his family the boy’s hair must be cut by the start of semester two on Mo
  
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• US Supreme Court to Hear Case of College Student Seeking Justice After Gospel Preaching Twice Shut Down

  11-07-2020 01:26 via christiannews.net
  
  Photo Credit: Alliance Defending Freedom WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case from a former student at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) who sued the educational institution after his attempts to preach the gospel on campus were twice shut down. Lower courts had declared the case moot as the college changed its free speech policy after the...
  
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• CNN’s Don Lemon Claims: ‘Jesus Christ Admittedly Was Not Perfect When He Was Here’

  10-07-2020 22:43 via christiannews.net
  
  NEW YORK -- During an episode of "CNN Tonight" this week, host Don Lemon claimed that Jesus Christ was not perfect when He walked the Earth. "Jesus Christ --- if that's who you believe in --- Jesus Christ admittedly was not perfect when He was here on this earth," Lemon asserted to colleague Chris Cuomo, who also made a controversial statement a week...
  
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• Radical Muslims Beat 21-Year-Old Christian Woman Unconscious in Kenya

  10-07-2020 20:34 via christiannews.net
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims in Isiolo, Kenya last month beat unconscious a 21-year-old Christian woman, a member of a family from Somalia that fled persecution in Nairobi in 2019, sources said. In the June 4 attack on Fozia (surname withheld), seven assailants also broke two teeth of her 19-year-old sister, Asha, and also injured...
  
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• Kenyan Widow Gives Birth to Baby Boy Four Months After Husband Martyred

  10-07-2020 20:18 via christiannews.net
  
  (International Christian Concern) – Velma Awour welcomed her bouncing baby boy, Rowen, on June 26. Rowen’s father, Kevin, was very excited to meet his new baby. Since October 2019, Kevin and Velma worked hard to prepare their home for the addition of their new baby boy into their family of four. Then, in March, all of their dreams shattered when Kevin was...
  
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• Netherlands Will Eliminate Gender From ID Cards

  10-07-2020 19:33 via christiannews.net
  
  (Evangelical Focus) -- The gender field will soon no longer appear in the identification cards (IDs) of citizens, the government of the Netherlands has announced. Education Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven --- who is also in charge of emancipation issues --- said identifying the gender in ID cards is “unnecessary” and hurts people who identify as...
  
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• Court ruling paves way for Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to revert to mosque

  10-07-2020 17:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Status of Unesco-listed 1,500-year-old building has been hotly debated for decadesA Turkish court ruling has paved the way for Istanbul’s crowning architectural jewel, the Hagia Sophia museum, to be turned back into a mosque – a politically charged decision that has drawn international criticism but delighted the president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s conservative base.Turkey’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, ruled unanimously on Friday to annul a 1934
  
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• NI hate crime review delayed

  10-07-2020 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New hate crime legislation is unlikely to be brought to Stormont for at least two more years, Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister has announced.
  
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• ROI Minister to make it easier for children to change legal sex

  10-07-2020 14:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Children under 16 years old could soon be able to change legal sex in the Republic of Ireland, the Children’s Minister has said.
  
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• Police have criminals on the back foot in war on drugs

  10-07-2020 13:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  UK drug lords believe the police are winning the war on drugs, according to secret messages hacked by detectives.
  
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• Indoor weddings now allowed in Northern Ireland

  10-07-2020 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Indoor weddings are allowed in Northern Ireland again, as part of the latest measures to ease lockdown restrictions in the Province.
  
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• Scot Govt U-turn as churches in Scotland to reopen on 15 July

  09-07-2020 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Scottish Government has announced that churches can reopen on 15 July.
  
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• Arrest of Another Christian Confirmed in Tehran

  09-07-2020 18:03 via christiannews.net
  
  Photo Credit: Mostafa Meraji (Article18) -- A 46-year-old Christian woman has been named as another of those arrested during a series of raids on the homes of Christians last week by intelligence agents belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Malihe Nazari, who is married with two sons aged 22 and 15, was arrested at her home in the Sadeghiyeh district of...
  
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• Mississippi Governor signs pro-life protections into law

  09-07-2020 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Governor of Mississippi has signed into law a Bill protecting unborn babies from abortion on the grounds of race, sex or disability.
  
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• US city gives legal recognition to 'polyamorous' couples

  09-07-2020 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A city in Massachusetts, US has redefined the notion of family to include people in ‘polyamorous’ relationships of three or more people.
  
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• Top human rights QC blasts NI hate crime proposals

  09-07-2020 12:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A prominent free speech and human rights lawyer has issued a hard-hitting warning over proposals to change hate crime laws in Northern Ireland.
  
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• Televangelists take a slice as churches accept billions in US coronavirus aid

  09-07-2020 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Revelations raise concerns about separation of church and stateJimmy Swaggart and other controversial pastors accept loansMore than 10,600 religious organizations have taken at least $3bn in coronavirus financial aid from the US government, according to an analysis by the Guardian, raising concerns about the separation of church and state. Related: Trump criticizes Fauci and says US in a 'good place' as Covid-19 cases top 3m You’re getting free money, and that’s what these guys are g
  
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• JK Rowling, Margaret Atwood among 150 writers who want to be free to disagree

  09-07-2020 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An open letter championing free speech and rejecting a new culture of censorship has been signed by more than 150 leading authors, academics and thinkers, who say people must be free to disagree with one another.
  
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• 'Mama Boko Haram': one woman's extraordinary mission to rescue 'her boys' from terrorism

  09-07-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Aisha Wakil knew many of Boko Haram’s fighters as children. Now she uses those ties to broker peace deals, mediate hostage negotiations and convince militants to put down their weapons – but as the violence escalates, her task is becoming impossible. By Chika Oduah
  It was another scorching afternoon in Maiduguri. In the west of the city, in Nigeria’s north-east, 51-year-old Aisha Wakil sat in her office talking to a jihadi fighter named Usman. Wakil was draped head-to-toe in fi
  
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• Ken Ham on Jen Hatmaker’s Pride in Daughter’s Lesbianism: ‘Condoning Her Sin Is Not Love’

  09-07-2020 01:07 via christiannews.net
  
  Photo Credit: Jen Hatmaker Apologist Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis commented this week on women's speaker and author Jen Hatmaker's recent podcast "in honor of Pride Month" in which she revealed that her daughter is lesbian, stating that she is "glad" her daughter is homosexual and that it is one of her "greatest regrets and sorrows" that she did not affirm...
  
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• US Supreme Court Allows Employers With Moral Objections to Opt Out of Obamacare’s Contraceptive Mandate

  08-07-2020 21:28 via christiannews.net
  
  Photo Credit: Joe Ravi WASHINGTON (Kaiser Health News) -- The Supreme Court Wednesday settled — at least for now — a decade’s worth of litigation over the women’s health provisions of the Affordable Care Act, ruling 7-2 that employers with a “religious or moral objection” to providing contraceptive coverage to their employees may opt out without...
  
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• Newlyweds Tell BBC: Marriage is a ‘Picture of Jesus and Christians’

  08-07-2020 20:24 via christiannews.net
  
   (The Christian Institute) -- One of the first couples to be married in England following the easing of lockdown restrictions on July 4 told the BBC why their Christian faith made the ceremony so important. Phil Hobbs and Beth Johnson had originally planned to be married three months ago. They were finally able to hold their wedding on Saturday with a...
  
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• Christian Newlyweds Tell BBC: Marriage is a ‘Picture of Jesus and Christians’

  08-07-2020 20:24 via christiannews.net
  
   (The Christian Institute) -- One of the first couples to be married in England following the easing of lockdown restrictions on July 4 told the BBC why their Christian faith made the ceremony so important. Phil Hobbs and Beth Johnson had originally planned to be married three months ago. They were finally able to hold their wedding on Saturday with a...
  
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• Religious Nationalism a Barrier to the Gospel in the Former Soviet Union

  08-07-2020 19:46 via christiannews.net
  
  Photo Credit: Paasikivi Russia (Mission Network News) — “I’m already a Christian.” This is the response Christians in partnership with Slavic Gospel Association often hear when they share the Gospel with families in the former Soviet Union. Eric Mock says many Russians consider themselves to be Christians, especially as part of the Russian Orthodox...
  
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• I'm glad to be back in church – even if there's hand sanitiser instead of holy water

  08-07-2020 19:09 via theguardian.com
  
  I wonder what happened in my local church, behind locked doors, for all these monthsFootball, pubs and churches are all now available to us again. While I love all three, they also, respectively, cause me stress, temptation and guilt. I did not go to mass at the weekend because, as with pubs, I thought it might be a bit of a melee. I imagined feisty parishioners clamouring at the door being spoken to severely by sunglassed, earpieced bouncers. No, I left it until Tuesday to allow calm to prevail
  
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• Church of England bishops criticised over Cummings tweets

  08-07-2020 18:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Members of the general synod to examine whether senior clergy broke rules on use of social mediaChurch of England bishops who publicly criticised Dominic Cummings over his breach of lockdown rules have come under fire from members of the C of E’s governing body over their use of social media during the controversy.Members of the general synod, which meets online this weekend, have tabled a series of questions asking whether senior bishops adhered to C of E guidance on the use of social med
  
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• Christian newlyweds: 'Marriage is a picture of Jesus and Christians'

  08-07-2020 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of the first couples to be married in England following the easing of lockdown restrictions on 4 July have told the BBC why their Christian faith made the ceremony so important.
  
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• Award-winning authors urge Booker Prize to reinstate Peer following trans row

  08-07-2020 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A number of award-winning writers have called for a Peer to be reinstated as Honorary Vice-President of the Booker Prize after she was removed from her position following accusations of ‘transphobia’ and ‘homophobia’.
  
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• DIY abortions 'unsafe' and sometimes 'illegal', investigation reveals

  08-07-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Abortion giants are not carrying out basic checks before administering DIY abortion pills, which could lead to illegal abortions, an investigation has found.
  
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• Author sacked for supporting JK Rowling trans comments

  08-07-2020 13:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A bestselling children’s author has been sacked after expressing support for JK Rowling.
  
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• Kanye West takes anti-vaccine, anti-abortion stance in US presidential bid

  08-07-2020 12:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Rapper also unveils intention to end police brutality, return ‘fear and love of God’ to schools and appoint Elon Musk to run space programmeKanye West has given more details about the policy platform he will adopt in his bid to become US president in November, declaring himself anti-abortion, sceptical about a Covid-19 vaccine and keen to return “fear and love of God” to education.In an interview with Forbes, he announced that he would run under the banner of the Birthday
  
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• Lockdown helps US couple drop divorce plans to work on marriage

  08-07-2020 10:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A celebrity couple in the US have shared how lockdown gave them the time to work on their marriage instead of getting divorced.
  
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• Somerville, Mass. Unanimously Passes Law Recognizing ‘Polyamorous’ Domestic Partnerships

  07-07-2020 23:39 via christiannews.net
  
  Photo Credit: Katy Black SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- The city council of Somerville, Massachusetts has unanimously passed an ordinance recognizing "polyamorous" domestic partnerships as they could not find a "good reason" to limit romantic relationships to two people. "It validates their existence. It validates the way they love,” council member Lance Davis told...
  
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• Two Children Among Those Dead as Dozens Shot Amid Another Weekend of Violence in Chicago

  07-07-2020 20:37 via christiannews.net
  
  CHICAGO -- It was a bloody Fourth of July weekend in Chicago as more than 80 people were shot and 15 were killed by ongoing gun violence. Two of those fatalities were minors. “You gotta stop this killing. ... These are innocent kids. She was only seven years old. She always said, ‘I love you,'" Shelley Fulton told WGN-TV of her Great-Niece Natalie...
  
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• The Guardian view on Trump and the Christian vote: doubting Donald | Editorial

  07-07-2020 20:11 via theguardian.com
  
  The US president’s tactic of using religion as a battering ram in his culture wars may not work a second time Donald Trump has suggested that the Bible is his favourite book. When pressed to say more, he has shiftily declined to name a single chapter or verse. But for those curious to understand Mr Trump’s current religious preoccupations, his Twitter feed is offering regular enlightenment in the lead-up to November’s presidential elections.Last week, Mr Trump approvingly tweet
  
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• Christian Mother of Four in India Persecuted Before Her Death

  07-07-2020 18:19 via christiannews.net
  
  NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal Hindus persecuted a widowed, Christian mother of four before her body was found severely mutilated in the wilderness near her village in Chhattisgarh, India, sources said. The body of 40-year-old Bajjo Bai Mandavi was initially unrecognizable as it appeared to have been eaten by wild animals when it was found two miles...
  
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• More Than 6,600 Ireland Mothers Had Their Unborn Baby Murdered Last Year After Abortion Became Legal

  07-07-2020 17:26 via christiannews.net
  
  Photo Credit: Wayne Evans/Pexels.com (The Christian Institute) -- More than 6,600 abortions were carried out in the Republic of Ireland last year, following the vote to repeal its pro-life laws in 2018. Abortion is now available on demand up to twelve weeks, once a three-day reflection period has passed. Prior to the law change, abortion was only...
  
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• More Than 6,600 Abortions Carried Out in Ireland Last Year

  07-07-2020 17:26 via christiannews.net
  
  Photo Credit: Wayne Evans/Pexels.com (The Christian Institute) -- More than 6,600 abortions were carried out in the Republic of Ireland last year, following the vote to repeal its pro-life laws in 2018. Abortion is now available on demand up to twelve weeks, once a three-day reflection period has passed. Prior to the law change, abortion was only...
  
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• High Court: 'Ofsted wrong to demand Christian fostering agency ditch religious ethos'

  07-07-2020 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The High Court has ruled that England’s only evangelical Christian fostering agency can continue to work only with evangelical Christian carers.
  
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• Evangelische Kirche Report: More Than 220K Left the Protestant Church of Germany in 2018

  07-07-2020 16:24 via christiannews.net
  
  (Evangelical Focus) -- The annual statistics of the Evangelical Church of Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, EKD, the mainline Protestant church) show that 221,338 members announced their departure in 2018, 12.2% more than in the previous year. The EKD had already mentioned the provisional number of around 220,000 withdrawals, and it now confirms that...
  
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• Abortion threats to Domestic Abuse Bill fail, but Govt to launch consultation

  07-07-2020 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An attempt by MPs to introduce abortion on demand in England and Wales by amending the Government’s Domestic Abuse Bill has failed.
  
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• Labour leader: ‘Gender recognition law does not go far enough’

  07-07-2020 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sir Keir Starmer has said that people in the UK should be able to change sex by ‘self-identification’.
  
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• More than 6,600 abortions carried out in Ireland in 2019

  07-07-2020 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More than 6,600 abortions were carried out in the Republic of Ireland last year, following the vote to repeal its strong pro-life laws in 2018.
  
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• Scot hate crime Bill a 'severe threat to free speech'

  07-07-2020 13:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Scottish Government’s controversial hate crime legislation is a dangerous threat to free speech, which would have unintended consequences, a Scottish newspaper has warned.
  
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• CNN’s Chris Cuomo Claims: ‘You Don’t Need Help From Above’ to Make Country Better; ‘It’s Within Us’

  07-07-2020 00:25 via christiannews.net
  
  NEW YORK -- Controversy is stirring over a humanistic comment CNN anchor Chris Cuomo recently made at the end of his "Cuomo Prime Time" broadcast, as he told viewers that "you don't need help from above" in making the U.S. a better place as the solution is "within us." Cuomo had concluded his broadcast by telling two stories of young Americans who are involved in...
  
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• Church of the Brethren in Nigeria Says 50 Attacks by Boko Haram Were Largely ‘Unreported or Under Reported’ by Media

  05-07-2020 17:52 via christiannews.net
  
  Photo Credit: AK Rockefeller (Christian Solidarity Worldwide) -- The Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) has reported that Boko Haram terrorists carried out over “fifty different attacks on different communities between the end of 2019 to June 2020,” most of which were “unreported or under reported by both the print and...
  
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• Christian Father of Two Killed in Jharkhand State, India

  05-07-2020 17:33 via christiannews.net
  
  Photo Credit: FancyCrave/Pexels HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – When Kande Munda heard a knock on his door one night last month, the Christian father of two knew it was likely the same thugs and their colleagues in his area of Jharkhand, India who had harassed him for nearly four years. They were particularly upset that Munda had reported them to...
  
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• Va. Photographer Seeks Protection to Operate His Business Consistent With His Christian Beliefs on Marriage

  04-07-2020 20:05 via christiannews.net
  
  Photo Credit: Alliance Defending Freedom NORFOLK, Va. -- A Christian photographer has filed suit to challenge the new so-called "Virginia Values Act", which by effect would prohibit him from declining to participate in same-sex engagement or wedding photo shoots. Chris Herring, a seminary student who seeks to "combine his photography skills...
  
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• California Bans Singing in Church Over Coronavirus Spread

  04-07-2020 17:04 via christiannews.net
  
  (KTLA via CNN Wire) — While you can still attend in-person church services in California, you can’t sing. The state, to curb a rapidly worsening pandemic, has temporarily banned singing and chanting in places of worship. “Practices and performances present an increased likelihood for transmission of COVID-19 through contaminated exhaled droplets and...
  
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• PPE and quiet amens: places of worship in England prepare to reopen

  04-07-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Many churches, mosques, synagogues and temples will remain empty, as faith leaders weigh coronavirus risks Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Towards the end of the eucharist service at Canterbury Cathedral on Sunday morning, the Very Reverend Robert Willis, the cathedral’s dean, will strap a plastic visor over his face and pull on surgical gloves before descending into the nave to deliver communion bread to the socially-distanced congregation.There will be
  
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