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  Dec 20, 2018

  5 churches win court case against Wisconsin town's transgender bathroom ordinance

  A Wisconsin judge has ruled that the town of De Pere must provide churches and religious organizations exemptions to an LGBT non-discrimination ordinance that among other things would have required them to allow access to bathrooms on the basis of a person’s gender identity.

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  Dec 20, 2018

  Samaritan's Purse receives PETA award for airlifting starving tiger and lion

  The Franklin Graham-led evangelical humanitarian aid agency has won an award from the nation’s leading animal rights organization for helping save the lives of a tiger and lion left starving after a giant typhoon.

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  Dec 20, 2018

  Christian conservatives defend Muslim teacher who lost job for refusing pro-Israel contract

  Prominent Christian conservatives and other supporters of the First Amendment are speaking up in defense of free speech after a Muslim school contractor in Texas claimed to have lost her job for not signing what has been described as a “pro-Israel pledge.”

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  Dec 20, 2018

  Idaho ordered to provide sex reassignment surgery to inmate jailed for sexually abusing a child

  The state of Idaho has been ordered to provide gender reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate imprisoned for the sexual abuse of a minor.

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  Dec 19, 2018

  Trump's troop withdrawal 'sacrifices' Syrian Christians, gives 'victory' to jihadis: activist

  President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria will have dire consequences for tens of thousands of Assyrian and Kurdish Christians in the northeast, self-administered part of the war-torn Middle Eastern nation, a global affairs expert warned.

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  Dec 19, 2018

  Nearly 1 in 4 GOP midterm voters 'leaning against' voting for Trump in 2020, poll finds

  Nearly one-quarter of Americans who voted for Republican candidates for Congress in the 2018 midterms say they are “definitely not” or “leaning against” voting for President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential elections, a soon-to-be-released poll has found.

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  Dec 18, 2018

  Atheist group lawsuit over West Virginia school Bible classes should move ahead: 4th Circuit

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has overturned a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit filed against a West Virginia county for offering Bible classes in its middle and elementary schools.

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  Dec 18, 2018

  Miami's oldest congregation faces $6.5 million tax lien for leasing space to for-profit school

  The oldest Christian congregation in Miami is being forced to pay $7.1 million in property taxes after the county claimed that the church was leasing out part of its waterfront property to a for-profit Christian school and food trucks.

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  Dec 17, 2018

  2 Christian brothers sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan, charity warns

  Two Christian brothers have reportedly been sentenced to death in Pakistan after one of them was accused of posting content deemed disrespectful of Islam on their website.

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  Dec 17, 2018

  British school district to teach 8-y-o kids that 'all genders' can have periods

  As more girls today are seeking to “transition” to become transgender boys, a town in England has advised its sex education teachers to tell students as young as eight that “all genders” can have periods.