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  Oct 6, 2017

  16-Y-O Coptic Christian Girl Kidnapped by Salafi Muslim Rescued After 92 Days in Captivity

  A 16-year-old Coptic Christian girl who was kidnapped in Egypt has finally been returned to her family after three months in captivity, a leading persecution media watchdog has reported.

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  Oct 6, 2017

  Jeff Sessions Issues Sweeping Religious Freedom Guidance to All Federal Agencies

  Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions is instructing all federal agencies to ensure to the "greatest extent practicable and permitted by law" that the religious beliefs of people, businesses, churches and other organizations are accommodated and not burdened by the federal government.

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  Oct 6, 2017

  UK Catholic Girls School Tells Students to Use Transgender Pronouns

  A parent has voiced outrage after a Catholic girls school in the United Kingdom told parents that students are expected to use the preferred pronouns and names of transgender classmates.

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  Oct 5, 2017

  Christian Funeral Home Defends Right to Fire Transgender Employee in Appeals Court

  A federal appeals court on Wednesday heard an employment discrimination lawsuit filed against a Christian funeral home owner in Michigan after he fired a transgender employee who was transitioning from male to female and requested to wear women's clothing.

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  Oct 5, 2017

  Kidnapped Priest Tom Uzhunnalil to Receive Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice

  The Indian priest who was kidnapped and held hostage by Islamic extremists in Yemen for over 18 months before he was released last month will be awarded the Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice.

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  Oct 5, 2017

  Michelle Qureshi Vows to Continue Her Late Husband Nabeel's Ministry

  The wife of the late Christian apologist and best-selling author Nabeel Qureshi has vowed to continue her late husband's online ministry.

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  Oct 4, 2017

  Princeton U Student Group Drops 'Evangelical' From Name Fearing Negative Connotation

  A Princeton University student group has dropped the word "evangelical" from its name because its members feel that the word now has a negative perception in today's society.

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  Oct 4, 2017

  'US Taxpayers Are Financing Spoils of Genocide,' Iraqi Archdiocese Lawyer Tells Congress

  A lawyer who represents the Chaldean Archdiocese of Erbil has accused the United States government of "financing the spoils of genocide" through its reconstruction aid program that he says has benefited Muslims who settled into a once predominantly Iraqi Christian town following the rise of the Islamic State.

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  Oct 4, 2017

  Congressman Tim Murphy, Who Says He's Pro-Life, Asked Mistress to Have Abortion, Report Claims

  Pro-life Republican congressman Tim Murphy is facing heat after it was reported that he encouraged his married mistress to get an abortion when it was believed that she was pregnant.

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  Oct 4, 2017

  ISIS Sex Slave Survivor Tells Congress About Horrors of Her Captivity: 'It Was Like Hell'

  A Yazidi victim of the Islamic State's genocide in Iraq detailed for members of the United States Congress Tuesday afternoon the horrors she experienced during the nine months that was held as a slave.