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  Aug 27, 2020

  Ark Encounter opens virtual reality experience taking people 'back in time' to Noah's Ark

  The creationist theme park Ark Encounter in northern Kentucky has launched a $3 million virtual reality experience that aims to show visitors what it would be like to travel back to see Noah’s Ark and the Genesis flood. 

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  Aug 27, 2020

  Pakistani Christian girl beaten by family employers for refusing to convert to Islam

  An 18-year-old Christian servant in Pakistan was beaten for refusing her employers' demands to convert to Islam, according to her family and a London-based human rights group.

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  Aug 26, 2020

  Cissie Graham Lynch at RNC: Biden-Harris vision leaves ‘no room for people of faith’

  Granddaughters of the late evangelist Billy Graham voiced differing opinions about President Donald Trump Tuesday, with one praising the president during a Republican National Convention speech hours after the other published an op-ed critical of Trump's evangelical supporters. 

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  Aug 26, 2020

  Muslim teen beaten, head shaved by family in France because she 'loved a Christian'

  Family members of a teenage Bosnian girl will face abuse charges after they were accused of beating the child and shaving her head when she admitted to having a relationship with a Christian man. 

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  Aug 25, 2020

  Evangelical leaders urge Trump admin. to stop summarily deporting unaccompanied migrant children

  Over a dozen prominent evangelical charities and organizations are calling on Ivanka Trump to pressure the administration to stop using the pandemic to suspend legal safeguards for unaccompanied migrant children and allowing them to be housed in hotels and deported.

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  Aug 24, 2020

  How does Trump’s 2nd-term agenda compare with the 2020 Democratic platform?

  The Trump campaign released on Sunday its second-term agenda, a set of policy priorities that will stand in place of a traditional Republican platform and offer a distinctly different vision than the 2020 Democratic platform released last week. 

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  Aug 22, 2020

  Pastor, wife flee Iran to escape 15 years' imprisonment for house church evangelism

  An Iranian pastor and his wife have fled the country after their appeals of yearslong prison sentences related to their involvement in a house church and evangelism were denied. 

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  Aug 21, 2020

  5 highlights from DNC: ‘mermaid queen-king,’ capitalism’s 'destruction,' God omitted in pledge

  The 2020 Democratic National Convention came to a close Thursday night after a week of various daytime video meetings, videos, musical performances and primetime speeches from some of the country’s most notable celebrities and politicians. 

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  Aug 20, 2020

  Calif. prosecutor threatens church with closure, jail sentences for COVID-19 order violation

  A prosecutor warned the pastor of a church in California that he, church staff and attendees could face jail time if they continue to defy government COVID-19 orders by holding and attending in-person worship services. 

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  Aug 20, 2020

  Jim Wallis steps aside as Sojourners editor-in-chief after removing controversial op-ed

  Longtime progressive evangelical leader Jim Wallis has been replaced as editor-in-chief at Sojourners magazine after staff members resigned following his decision to unpublish a controversial op-ed accusing the Catholic Church of having a “white-power faction.”