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  Aug 21, 2015

  Christian Sweet Cakes Bakers Fined $135K for Not Working Gay Wedding Send Care Package to 10 LGBT Groups

  The Oregonian Christian bakers who were sued and fined $135,000 for refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding have sent a care package that includes a DVD of a Christian film, a cake and a gift card to 10 gay rights organizations in what the bakers have deemed a simple expression of "love."

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  Aug 20, 2015

  Franklin Graham Responds to Hillary's 'Black Lives Matter' Comments: 'Changed Hearts Do Make a Difference'

  Leading evangelist and humanitarian Franklin Graham has chastised Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton for saying last week in a meeting with Black Lives Matter activists that she doesn't believe changing hearts is the way to true racial reconciliation.

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  Aug 20, 2015

  FRC President Tony Perkins Says Josh Duggar's Conduct 'Harms the Cause He Has Publicly Espoused'

  As former executive director of Family Research Council's lobbying arm Josh Duggar admitted Thursday that he cheated on his wife, Anna, and developed a secret addiction to pornography, FRC President Tony Perkins condemned Duggar's actions Thursday and labeled the former reality TV star's conduct as "deceitful behavior."

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  Aug 20, 2015

  Common Core Report Card: Opposition Groups Rank the Presidential Candidates

  Two organizations that strongly oppose the Common Core State Standards for education have graded the 2016 Republican presidential candidates on their efforts to combat the standards.

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  Aug 20, 2015

  Catholic Missionary With Ties to Louisiana Parishes Assassinated in On-Road Ambush Attack In Nigeria

  A Nigerian Catholic priest who served at two Louisiana parishes for 11 years before returning to his home country was shot and killed by unknown assailants in an apparent road ambush in Southern Nigeria last weekend.

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  Aug 19, 2015

  Baptist Church Founded by First SBC President Allows Ordination of Gay and Transgender Ministers

  The South Carolina church that was founded by the Southern Baptist Convention's first president has adopted a new non-discrimination policy that will allow for the congregation to not only marry same-sex couples but also ordain openly gay, lesbian and transgender ministers.

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  Aug 19, 2015

  60 Children Among 160 Drowned Or Shot in Boko Haram's Latest Massacre, Resident Says

  According to residents in the Nigerian town of Kukuwa-Gari in the northeastern Yobe state, Boko Haram gunmen rode into the town on motorcycles last Thursday and opened fired, killing at least 160 people, including 60 children.

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  Aug 19, 2015

  Planned Parenthood Harvested Intact Brain From Baby Whose Heart Was Still Beating, Former Abortion Clinic Worker Claims in New Video

  The Center for Medical Progress' seventh video highlighting the aborted baby parts compensation practices of Planned Parenthood, alleges that the abortion giant and its former partnering company StemExpress have harvested an intact brain from a gestated fetus whose heart was still beating.

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  Aug 18, 2015

  Iranian Police Beat and Arrest Christian Converts During Raid on House Church

  A group of eight Christian converts were beaten and arrested by Iranian authorities while they were gathered for worship inside a house church in the city of Karaj, an Iranian resistance group has reported.

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  Aug 18, 2015

  Survey: Only 1 in 7 Americans Think Divorce Is a Sin

  New surveys conducted by LifeWay Research have found that the majority of Americans do not believe divorce is a sin, while the majority of Protestant pastors also believe that divorce is morally acceptable, under certain circumstances, except in scenarios when the couple has fallen out of love.