Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Dec 15, 2018

  Pakistani Christian woman tortured, starved 4 years in solitary confinement on false blasphemy charge

  A Pakistani Christian woman who was jailed on a false blasphemy charge has recounted in a recent interview how she spent four years in solitary confinement and was periodically starved because of her faith in Christ.

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  Dec 15, 2018

  Poland grants asylum to mother and 2-y-o fleeing Norway's controversial child services

  Poland has granted asylum to a mother and her 2-year-old daughter who fled Norway after child services tried to remove the child from the mother’s care based on what she says are false allegations of drug abuse.

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  Dec 15, 2018

  Faith leaders counter critics of prison reform bill: 'The opposition's solution is to do nothing'

  Criminal justice reform activists and faith leaders can smell the end zone as they sit on the “5-yard line” of passing what could be the most comprehensive prison reform bill in decades. But a few staunch “tough-on-crime” conservatives in the Senate stand in their way.

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  Dec 14, 2018

  State Dept. adds Russia to religious freedom 'watch list,' labels Pakistan a 'country of concern'

  The U.S. State Department has added Russia to its “special watch list” for religious freedom violators and added Pakistan to its list of “countries of particular” concern.

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  Dec 13, 2018

  Town ignores atheists' warnings, keeps Christian cross in Christmas lights display

  To the delight of many Christians, a town in Christian County, Missouri, has reversed its decision to take down an illuminated cross from its Christmas display.

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  Dec 13, 2018

  6 Christian organizations win legal battle against Obamacare birth control mandate

  Six Christian organizations have won their years-long legal battles against an Obama-era federal mandate ordering the provision of contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs in their employee health care plans.

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  Dec 13, 2018

  Family groups pressure Congress to legalize VidAngel media filter service after Hollywood lawsuit

  The nation’s lead family television watchdog is concerned that Congress may squander an opportunity to give parents more control over the media their children consume at home as Hollywood interests stand in the way of bipartisan, evangelical-backed legislation to give them the ability to do so.

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  Dec 13, 2018

  Trump signs bill to aid ISIS genocide victims; Iraqi Christians ‘beginning to see a difference’

  Religious leaders and human rights activists are rejoicing after President Donald Trump signed a bill that supporters say will “boost” efforts to help Christians and other religious minorities victimized by the Islamic State’s genocide in Iraq and Syria.

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  Dec 12, 2018

  HHS Civil Rights Office head slams Obama's treatment of Christian groups

  The Department of Health and Human Services’ top civil rights official criticized the former Obama administration on Tuesday for the way it treated Christian organizations who objected to Obamacare’s contraception mandate.

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  Dec 12, 2018

  Leading college faculty union says belief in only 2 genders is based on ‘ideology,' not fact

  One of America’s leading college faculty unions is decrying attempts to define gender as “binary,” and claims that the Trump administration and the “religious fundamentalists” who support such a definition are moved by ideology, not fact.