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  Jan 3, 2021

  Pakistani Christians return home after threats of violence over Facebook post forced them to flee

  Hundreds of Christian families have returned to their homes in the Charar neighborhood of Lahore, Pakistan, after threats of violence over a Facebook post forced them to flee. 

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  Jan 3, 2021

  Trip Lee warns against 'reality show righteousness' at Cross for the Nations 2020

  Social media and a culture that teaches people to film and publicize their own actions often engenders an attitude of performative goodness, said Lee at a speech to the Cross for the Nations 2020 conference. He called this attitude “reality show righteousness.”

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  Jan 1, 2021

  Don’t waste the pandemic, John Piper tells Cross for the Nations conference

  Don’t waste the pandemic, theologian John Piper told Christians at the 2020 Cross for the Nations conference.

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  Dec 30, 2020

  'The Next Jihad' authors talk religion, Christian persecution in Nigeria with Nick Cannon

  “I would say the pen of a scholar is much more powerful than the blood of a martyr,” said Cannon. “To me, humanity outshines religion every time. If we’re keeping score, and I’m talking from Abrahamic faiths to even beyond, religion has done a lot of damage to this world and then humans have to come and fix it.”

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  Dec 30, 2020

  Nigerian Christian group delivers food, money to children left orphaned by jihadist attacks

  Nigerian children left orphaned after their parents were killed in attacks by radical Fulani tribesmen received food and money from the Emancipation Centre for Crisis Victims in Nigeria this Christmas.

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  Dec 29, 2020

  Senate committee report: World Vision failed to vet group that funded terrorists

  World Vision should have known that the Islamic group it funded and worked with in Sudan was dedicated to funding terrorism, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee said in a new report.

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  Dec 28, 2020

  FBI suspects 5G conspiracy motivated Nashville Christmas Day bomber

  Nashville bomber Anthony Quinn Warner may have been motivated to bomb a downtown AT&T store on Christmas because of 5G conspiracy theories, a source involved with the FBI said.

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  Dec 25, 2020

  8 Christmas traditions on 7 continents

  As the news of Jesus’s birth spread to nations around the world, each people created traditions to celebrate Christmas. In December, Christians celebrate the Christmas story with a gloriously unique set of traditions that often combine festivities with symbolism and meaning.

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  Dec 23, 2020

  International Criminal Court prosecutor: Violence in Nigeria merits an ICC investigation

  International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda recently announced that enough evidence of crimes against humanity exist in Nigeria to meet the criteria for opening an investigation.

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  Dec 23, 2020

  Egyptian court acquits Muslim men who stripped, beat Christian grandmother

  An Egyptian court acquitted three men who led a Muslim mob to strip, beat, spit on and humiliate a Christian grandmother whose son was falsely accused of having a romantic relationship with a Muslim woman.