Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  May 30, 2017

  India Arrests Christians for Taking Kids to Bible Camp

  Government authorities in India have arrested as many as 11 people for transporting dozens of Christian children to a Bible camp this month in the predominantly-Hindu Madhya Pradesh state, and have charged them with kidnapping and attempting to convert Hindu children.

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  May 30, 2017

  Mariam Ibraheem Told Ted Cruz the Reason She Didn't Give Up on Death Row

  Speaking in front of human rights and religious freedom advocates last week, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz recounted an encounter he had with a Sudanese Christian mother of two who was imprisoned and put on death row simply because she wouldn't renounce her faith in Christ.

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  May 30, 2017

  Sec. of State Rex Tillerson Declines to Host Traditional Ramadan Reception

  Sec. of State Rex Tillerson broke a nearly two-decade old tradition by declining to host a special celebration honoring the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which takes place this year from May 26 until June 24.

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  May 25, 2017

  North Korea's Kim Jong Un Is Terrified of These 2 Bible Passages, Sen. Lankford Says

  The Kim regime in North Korea, which has imprisoned, tortured and even killed thousands of Christians, is terrified of the Gospel, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told North Korean freedom activists gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

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  May 25, 2017

  Obama Admin. Illegally Spied on Americans, Court Docs Reveal; MSM Silent

  Despite the fact that a report released Wednesday unearthed how the National Security Agency under President Barack Obama routinely violated the privacy rights of Americans, the three major left-leaning broadcast news networks neglected to shed light on the issue during their evening broadcasts.

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  May 25, 2017

  North Korea's Persecution of Christians 'on Par With Nero's Rome,' Expert Says

  Christians in North Korea are facing persecution that is likely "on par" with the level of persecution that the Early Christian Church faced under Roman emperor Nero, a prominent human rights activist said during a Capitol Hill briefing Wednesday.

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  May 24, 2017

  Michigan School District Pressured to Reinstate Off-Campus Lunchtime Bible Study Program

  A law firm representing a pastor who runs a voluntary off-campus Bible program in Michigan has demanded that a public school district that recently banned its students from taking part in the lunchtime Bible study stop violating state and federal law by infringing upon the students' rights to participate in the program.

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  May 23, 2017

  Joel and Victoria Osteen Slammed for Doing 'Hook 'Em Horns' Hand Sign at Son's Graduation

  Famed televangelists Joel and Victoria Osteen have received criticism on social media after they posted photos of themselves throwing up a hand sign meant to show support for the University of Texas at Austin when their son graduated from the school this past weeken

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  May 23, 2017

  Greg Laurie on Manchester Terror Attack: 'There Is a Spiritual Element in Play Here'

  Evangelists Greg Laurie and Franklin Graham have taken to their social media pages to comment on Monday night's bombing in Manchester, England, that the Islamic State terrorist group has claimed responsibility for.

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  May 23, 2017

  Os Guinness on 'Scandal of American Church': 'Huge Majority Yet Culturally Uninfluential'

  The Church in America is on the "low ebb" of society when it comes to its overall impact on today's culture and is in need of "reformation" so that it can once again be the "salt" and "light" that Jesus called it to be, evangelical author and social critic Os Guinness said.