Jackson Elliott

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  Nov 17, 2020

  Latinos fear socialism under Biden, Christian leader says

  Joe Biden said he isn’t a socialist, but Latino voters paid more attention to what he wasn’t willing to say, a Latino Christian leader said.

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  Nov 17, 2020

  Christian group sends 27,000 Bibles, books to Albania

  A container packed with Bibles and books to help build the Church arrived in Albania Nov. 9, said Mission Cry President Jason Woolford. The 27,000 books in the container cost half a million dollars.

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  Nov 13, 2020

  Pakistani court nullifies child marriage of kidnapped Christian girl to Muslim man

  On October 13, the 44-year-old Azhar kidnapped the 13-year-old Raja from her home and ‘married’ her. She signed papers saying that she had willingly converted to Islam and married Azhar, International Christian Concern’s South Asia Regional Manager, Will Stark, told The Christian Post. She probably did so while facing threats, sexual violence and torture, he added.

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  Nov 13, 2020

  NC college may cut hard science majors but keep gender and sexuality studies

  Guilford College, a liberal arts school in North Carolina, has announced that budget cuts may remove some of the school’s oldest majors while leaving new disciplines untouched.

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  Nov 13, 2020

  Justice Alito decries COVID overreach, ‘disturbing’ trend against religious liberty

  Many state government-imposed COVID-19 restrictions lack concern for First Amendment freedoms, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said in a Thursday Zoom speech to the Federalist Society.

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  Nov 13, 2020

  Catholic group paying off college loan debt for adults who want to be priests, nuns or monks

  More Catholic young people can dedicate their lives to serving God because the Catholic Fund for Vocations will pay their student loans, said the group’s executive director Mary Radford to The Christian Post. “When a young person has this calling, that is the time they need to enter, not five years from now,” Radford said. “Each vocation story is unique and beautiful all by itself. They all feel called.”

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  Nov 8, 2020

  Children with Down syndrome targeted for abortion in UK

  Political activist Heidi Crowter has sued the U.K.'s National Health Service for allowing the abortion of babies up to birth if they're diagnosed as having Down syndrome.

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  Nov 8, 2020

  Christian democracy activist detained by Chinese police talks of sharing the Gospel, even in chains

  Moments before he could begin an online webinar on Christianity and Chinese culture on Thursday, Chinese authorities summoned Ran Yunfei to a police station, International Christian Concern reported.

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  Nov 6, 2020

  Court to decide fate of kidnapped Pakistani Christian girl after medical exam in child marriage case

  A Pakistani court ordered that a Christian girl abducted and forced to wed a Muslim man be removed from her captor's home and sent to a government-run shelter until a medical examination determines whether she's of legal age to marry.

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  Nov 6, 2020

  Black Christian leaders on impact of 2020 racial protests, riots on America’s future

  Americans are divided on whether racial tensions will improve in the United States as 2020 has been a year of protests and social unrest following high-profile officer-involved deaths of African Americans. Church leaders are also unsure of the impact the protests will have.