Posts Tagged ‘united’
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Amnesty: Executions in the Middle East Alarming
— Twenty-one nations carried out the death penalty in 2012, according to Amnesty International's yearly report, published Wednesday. That is the same number as in 2011 - but a marked shift from ten years ago, when 28 countries ...
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Christian killed in attack on Coptic mourners in Egypt
Coptic Christians attending a funeral service here today for four Copts killed two days earlier in an anti-Christian rampage were in turn attacked themselves by at least 200 Muslim rioters. The incident, which started with a fe...
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Hmong Christian leader in Vietnam beaten to death in police custody
A Hmong church leader in Vietnam has been beaten to death in police custody, area sources said.
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Case against Rimsha Masih to be reopened
By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) – Following the recent savage violence against Christians in a poverty-stricken Lahore ghetto on Saturday, March 9 during which a frenzied Muslim mob ...
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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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2 Egyptian boys convicted of desecrating Koran, but released
A court in Egypt has quietly found two Coptic Christian boys guilty of “showing contempt for Islam” but only remanded them to the custody of their parents, an attorney for one of the children said.
Arts & Culture
Album review: Zion by Hillsong United
Hillsong United is a Christian band that originally rose out of the youth ministry of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia. This progressive worship band is a global recording and touring entity sent out to share the ever-evolv...
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Survey: 3 in 4 Americans would back balanced immigration solution
As the country reacts to an executive decision on immigration and a Supreme Court decision on the same issue, a newly released Knights of Columbus-Marist Poll finds that many American people would back a long-term immigration s...
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Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk dies at 91
CLEVELAND (RNS) Former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk died Saturday (March 17) in Germany, ending nearly 35 years of legal battles with officials in three countries who claimed he was a guard in a Nazi death camp. He was ...