Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Apr 30, 2020

  McDonald's urged to warn employees about porn website exploiting their financial struggles

  The National Center for Sexual Exploitation is urging McDonald’s to warn its employees about how a pornography website is trying to recruit them as they suffer lower wages during the novel coronavirus pandemic. 

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  Apr 30, 2020

  HUD to pay atheist group over $3K after settling lawsuit involving cabinet Bible study

  A leading secular legal group says the Department of Housing and Urban Development has agreed to pay $17,800 after settling a lawsuit related to Secretary Dr. Ben Carson’s participation in a Bible study.

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  Apr 30, 2020

  65% of Americans support Trump's pause on immigration during COVID-19: poll

  A majority of Americans — as much as 65 percent — favor a temporary pause on most immigration to the United States as the coronavirus pandemic continues, according to two separate new surveys. 

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  Apr 29, 2020

  Biden accuser slams Hillary's endorsement; more sources back Tara Reade's sexual assault claims

  The woman who claims Joe Biden reached under her skirt in 1993 has slammed Hillary Clinton after the former first lady gave her endorsement to the presumptive 2020 nominee during a town hall Tuesday. 

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  Apr 29, 2020

  College to pay 'Antifa' prof. who desired 'revenge' against evangelicals $25K

  A college in Iowa has agreed to pay $25,000 to an adjunct professor who resigned after media coverage of controversial social media posts in which he indicated support for the militant leftist movement Antifa and a desire for “revenge” against evangelical Christians.

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  Apr 29, 2020

  Cameroon admits soldiers, 'vigilantes' killed 10 kids, 3 women in massacre

  Authorities in Cameroon admitted last week that soldiers were involved in the killing of three women and 10 children in a mid-February attack in the civil war-stricken Northwest province in which 21 people were reportedly killed and several homes were pillaged.

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  Apr 28, 2020

  AG Barr threatens legal action against states COVID-19 orders that infringe on civil rights

  U.S. Attorney General William Barr has threatened to take legal action against state officials who violate people's civil rights by taking draconian measures to enforce stay-at-home orders. 

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  Apr 28, 2020

  USCIRF urges State Dept. to name India on top religious freedom violators list

  The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has, for the first time since 2004, recommended that the State Department add India to its list of countries that engage in or tolerate egregious violations of religious freedom as persecution against Christians and Muslims escalates.

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  Apr 28, 2020

  DeVos expands experimental college prison program backed by evangelical ministry

  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has doubled the size of an experimental program praised by the nation’s largest evangelical prison ministry designed to make it easier for inmates to access college courses and degree programs to help prepare them for life after their release. 

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  Apr 27, 2020

  UNESCO, UAE begin reconstruction of historic Iraqi church destroyed by ISIS

  Work has begun to rebuild a Christian church in Iraq destroyed by the Islamic State as part of a partnership between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Muslim-majority United Arab Emirates.