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  Dec 6, 2018

  Illinois town cancels trip to Ken Ham's Ark Encounter, Creation Museum after atheists file complaint

  An Illinois town has canceled a trip to the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum and Ark Encounter in Kentucky after one of the nation’s leading atheist legal groups filed a complaint.

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  Dec 6, 2018

  One of the oldest English copies of the Bible sells at auction for over $47,000

  A rare copy of one of the first New Testaments to be published in English has sold to a private collector for the equivalent of nearly $48,000.

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  Dec 6, 2018

  Nebraska principal bans all things Christmas, says candy canes symbolize Jesus

  A school district in Nebraska has clarified that a principal’s recent directives to teachers effectively banning all Christmas and other religious holiday symbols violate school board policy.

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  Dec 5, 2018

  George HW Bush personally asked Michael W Smith to sing 'Friends' at his funeral

  Attendees of President George H. W. Bush’s funeral on Wednesday were serenaded by Grammy Award-winning Christian singer-songwriter Michael W. Smith at the late president’s request.

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  Dec 5, 2018

  2 Azusa Pacific University trustees resign, cite institution's 'drift' from Christian principles

  Two Azusa Pacific University trustees resigned last week claiming that the Southern California evangelical institution has “drifted” from its mission and foundation through the promotion of liberal ideology.

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  Dec 5, 2018

  5 things to know about the evangelical-based prison reform bill FIRST STEP Act

  Some senators are rushing to get passed, before the end of the current Congress in January, a prison reform bill that advocates say could be the most substantial prison reform the United States has seen at the federal level in decades.

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  Dec 5, 2018

  Harvest Bible Chapel to launch ‘Freedom House’ 90-day residential addiction recovery program

  The multicampus Harvest Bible Chapel led by Pastor James MacDonald will launch a 90-day residential addiction recovery program for men 18 and older at the church’s retreat property in Michigan next month.

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  Dec 4, 2018

  USCIRF wants more sanctions to punish Myanmar's abuse of Rohingyas, Christians and others

  The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is calling for harsher sanctions to be placed on the Myanmar military and nonstate actors in response to the human rights abuses committed against the Rohingyas, Kachin Christians and other religious minorities.

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  Dec 4, 2018

  How God prepared former Dodgers GM to fight sex trafficking: It’s spiritual warfare

  In the years following former Dodgers general manager Kevin Malone’s departure from Major League Baseball, God pointed Malone and his passionate heart toward a new area of interest, one that he wasn’t really aware of until he went on a trip to Thailand with his pastor Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley.

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  Dec 4, 2018

  UK doctor ran illegal gender transition clinic for kids as young as 12, gets major fine

  A doctor investigated for running an unregistered online gender clinic from her home in which she provided cross-sex hormone drugs to a child as young as 12 has been fined by a court in the United Kingdom.