Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Mar 23, 2016

  British Lawmakers Vote Down ISIS 'Genocide' Amendment Fearing Increase in Immigration

  The British House of Lords shot down an amendment this week that would have forced the government to decide whether or not the Islamic State's persecution of Christians and other religious minorities is a "genocide."

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  Mar 23, 2016

  Obama Is 'Hijacking' Nuns' Healthcare Plans, Justice Kennedy Asserts at Supreme Court Arguments

  The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that will determine whether or not an order of Catholic nuns and over 30 other religious nonprofits will be forced to comply with an Obamacare contraception mandate that the organizations claim will make them complicit in violating their religious beliefs.

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  Mar 23, 2016

  ISIS Plans to Crucify Captured Catholic Priest on Good Friday, Online Rumors Claim

  The Islamic State terrorist group is planning to crucify a Salesian priest on Good Friday after he was kidnapped during a deadly attack in Yemen earlier this month.

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  Mar 23, 2016

  ISIS Claims Responsibility for Hacking 68-Y-O Christian Convert to Death in Bangladesh

  The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the fatal stabbing of a 68-year-old Christian convert in the South Asian nation of Bangladesh Tuesday.

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  Mar 22, 2016

  18,000 People 'Living in Hell' and Squalor, Chained Up in Indonesian 'Healing' Institutions

  A new report released by Human Rights Watch details the horrifying abuse suffered by the mentally ill in the Southeast Asian country of Indonesia, where over 18,000 people are chained and confined in overcrowded rooms for days, weeks and even years at a time.

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  Mar 22, 2016

  Russell Moore Calls for an End to 'Millennial Bashing': They Are 'Far More Committed' to Sharing Gospel

  Leading Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore is calling on Christians to stop "bashing" the millennial generation as lazy, entitled and self-obsessed, arguing that millennials are actually "far more committed" to sharing the Gospel with people outside of Christian subcultures.

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  Mar 22, 2016

  NFL Says Religious Freedom Bill Could Hurt Atlanta's Chances of Hosting Super Bowl

  The National Football League says that Atlanta's chances of hosting a Super Bowl in the coming years could be hindered should the state of Georgia pass into law a religious freedom bill designed to protect faith-based organizations and clergy from government backlash over their opposition to same-sex marriage.

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  Mar 22, 2016

  Surviving Nun Gives Eyewitness Account of ISIS' Brutal Massacre of Missionaries in Yemen

  A nun who is the lone survivor of an Islamic State terrorist attack on a church-run retirement home in Yemen earlier this month has provided an eyewitness testimony of the massacre that took the lives of 16 civilians, including four nuns.

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  Mar 21, 2016

  Girl Brutally Raped for 16 Months Reveals Horrifying Details of ISIS' Sex Slave 'Meat Market'

  A Yazidi sex slave who was raped three times a day for over 16 month by various Islamic State fighters detailed in a recent interview how she was bought and sold by eight different jihadis and how the group sold off over 800 Yazidi girls inside a Raqqa "meat market."

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  Mar 21, 2016

  Pakistani Christian Family Forced to Give Daughter Back to Muslim Man Who Kidnapped Her

  A Pakistani Christian mother who was kidnapped and forced into an Islamic marriage with her Muslim landlord and then escaped months later has been returned to her abductor by her own family in hopes that it will spare them from extreme persecution and arrest.