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  May 5, 2020

  Israel threatens to shut down new evangelical GOD TV channel if it proselytizes

  A new evangelical Christian television channel in Israel has been threatened with being shut down if it engages in any type of missionary activity, according to Israeli media reports. 

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  May 5, 2020

  Abducted seminarian killed for sharing the Gospel with captors in Nigeria: report

  A member of a Nigerian highway gang that is responsible for killing a kidnapped Catholic seminarian earlier this year admitted in a recent media interview that the aspiring priest was killed because he would not stop proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ to his captors.  

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  May 5, 2020

  Trump's favorability among white Christians in battleground states falls 27% since March: poll

  President Donald Trump’s favorability among white Christians in battleground states has dropped by 27 percentage points since mid-March as the country has dealt with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, data released by the Public Religion Research Institute finds. 

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  May 5, 2020

  Nigerian Christian hospitalized after married couple was ambushed with machetes

  A Christian man in the Plateau state of Nigeria was hospitalized after he and his wife were ambushed by a group of four suspected Fulani herdsmen late last month.

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  May 4, 2020

  Transgender birth mother can't be recognized as baby's father: appeals court

  A trans-identified female in England can not be listed as the father of a child to whom she gave birth, an appeals court ruled. 

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  May 3, 2020

  Free online Bible program encourages virtual communal Bible reading amid lockdown

  Tyndale House Publishers has teamed up with the Institute For Bible Reading to offer free resources for communal Bible reading and studying as many churches remain closed. 

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  May 2, 2020

  Islamic terror group confiscating Christians' properties in Syria, watchdog reports

  A Syrian Islamic rebel group has confiscated the properties of some Christian families in Idlib, according to a leading Syrian human rights watchdog. 

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  May 2, 2020

  Army Chaplain under fire for sharing John Piper's book 'Coronavirus and Christ'

  Twenty-two military chaplains are calling on a senior army chaplain to be disciplined and possibly court-martialed for sending nearly three-dozen other chaplains an email containing a copy of John Piper’s new e-book, Coronavirus and Christ.

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  May 1, 2020

  Biden denies sexual assault claims, calls for complaint to be released if it exists

  Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday publicly denied the allegations of sexual assault leveled against him by former staffer Tara Reade.

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  May 1, 2020

  Sam Rodriguez, Christian college president urge Calif. to reopen churches

  Leading Hispanic evangelical leader and Sacramento megachurch pastor Samuel Rodriguez and a Christian college president have called on California leaders to allow churches to reopen their doors as places of worship as the pace of new coronavirus cases has slowed down in recent days.