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Beyond Boko Haram: The Lethal Persecution of Nigeria’s Christians
Regina Luka lost her husband and two children, ages 2 and 4, in Feb.
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Libyan human-rights official flees country after death threats
The head of the Libyan Parliament’s Human Rights Committee has resigned and fled to London, saying he’s received death threats. Hassan Al Amin, prominent for his long opposition to the Gaddafi regime, recently spoke out against...
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The ‘Untouchables’ come to NRB 2013 in Nashville
The Dalits, also known as the “untouchables” and “outcastes,” make up nearly one quarter of India’s 1.2 billion people. There are an estimated 250 million Dalits and they make up history’s longest-standing oppressed people group.
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Venezuelan President Chavez dead at 58
By Candace Williams Venezuelan officials say President Hugo Chavez has died after a long struggle with cancer.Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced the death on national television Tuesday. He urged the Venezuelan people to s...
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Haiti’s Duvalier makes first court appearance
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has appeared in court for a hearing on whether he should face charges of corruption and human-rights violations committed during his brutal 15-year rule.
Former H...
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Christian bookstores raided, church buildings demolished in Sudan
Having deported scores of foreign Christians and demolished several church buildings in the past few months, Sudan continued ridding the country of Christianity this week by raiding Christian bookshops in Khartoum and arresting...
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Quarter of a million military ‘biblesticks’ deployed
Faith Comes By Hearing audio Bible ministry initiated its military outreach about five years ago at the request of a handful of active duty Marines and chaplains serving overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Obama stresses unity in inaugural speech
U.S. President Barack Obama is calling for united action by a divided America to address a host of domestic problems as he starts his second term in the White House.
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Obama’s use of Scripture echoes Lincoln, King
President Obama will publicly take the oath of office with Bibles once owned by his political heroes, Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr . One Bible was well read, but cited cautiously. The other granted scriptu...
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Obama’s Religious Freedom Day proclamation
Today, Jan. 16, is Religious Freedom Day, which marks the passage, in 1876, of Virginia’s Statute of Religious Freedom. Below is President Obama’s official proclamation, and you can find more information, including past presid...