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  Jul 22, 2015

  Obama Requiring Christian Groups to Offer Abortion Referrals to Receive Funds for Trafficking Victims

  Religious and other pro-life charity organizations that aid sex trafficking victims will longer be awarded federal grants if they are unable to offer abortion counseling services due to religious convictions come this fall after the Obama administration passed a new Department of Health and Human Services grant requirement last month.

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  Jul 22, 2015

  Watch 6 Presidential Candidates Answer Christian Leaders' Question About Poverty (Video)

  A coalition of Christian leaders devoted to helping end poverty has released a series of videos featuring six 2016 presidential candidates, in which each candidate explained the approach that he or she would take to solve poverty and hunger issues in the United States and across the globe if they were elected president.

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  Jul 21, 2015

  'The Whole Purpose' of Planned Parenthood Is to 'Eliminate Black People,' Ben Carson Says

  Republican 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson recently made the assertion on a Iowa conservative radio show that the "purpose" behind Margaret Sanger's founding of the abortion giant Planned Parenthood was to "eliminate black people," and also questioned whether or not President Barack Obama realizes that.

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  Jul 21, 2015

  Mississippi School District Fined Over $7,500 for 'Proselytizing Christianity' After Minister Prays at Event

  A U.S. Federal District Court has fined Mississippi's third largest public school district $7,500 after a minister opened a districtwide honors assembly with a prayer invocation, an act that violated a 2013 court settlement that ordered the district to stop "proselytizing Christianity."

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  Jul 20, 2015

  ISIS Claims Responsibility for Kidnapping Christians in Libya; Terror Group Releases Photos of Men Bound, Blindfolded

  The Islamic State's affiliate organization in Libya has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of three African Christians in eastern Libya by posting the men's passport photos and pictures of them being bound and blindfolded on social media websites sympathetic to the terrorist group's cause.

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  Jul 19, 2015

  6 Years Later: Christian Mother Asia Bibi on Death Row Finally Gets Appeal Hearing at Pakistan's Supreme Court

  Six years after being sentenced to death on the charge of blasphemy, Pakistan's Supreme Court has finally issued Christian mother of five, Asia Bibi, an appeal hearing, which serves as the last chance to spare her from death and secure her freedom.

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  Jul 18, 2015

  ISIS Publicly Crucifies, Cages 94 Civilians for Breaking Fast During Ramadan, Monitoring Group Calculates

  As the Islamic holy month of Ramadan came to an end on Friday, a monitoring group estimates that the Islamic State terrorist organization tortured at least 94 civilians, which included five children, for breaking their fast during daylight hours.

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  Jul 17, 2015

  Jewish Man Saved From the Holocaust Is Now on a Mission to Rescue Over 2,000 Christians Fleeing ISIS

  A Jewish Barron in Britain, who was rescued by Christians from his homeland of Austria during the Holocaust in 1938, says he has a favor to repay. He has established an effort to rescue over 2,000 Christians at risk of being killed by the Islamic State terrorist organization in Iraq and Syria.

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  Jul 17, 2015

  Christian Organizations Are Losing Obamacare Birth Control Mandate Cases Because Lawyers Not Building Strong Defense, Former Solicitor General Ken Starr Says

  After a federal appeals court ruled this week that four Christian colleges in Oklahoma and a group of nuns will have to abide by an Obamacare contraception mandate that they say violate their institutions' biblical beliefs, former U.S. Solicitor General Ken Starr explained Thursday that the court loss can be blamed on the organization's lawyers not building strong enough cases.

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  Jul 17, 2015

  'Religion Is Not Inherently a Good Thing' but Freedom of Religion Is 'Absolutely Awesome,' Says Democratic Congressman

  Speaking on a Thursday panel discussion on international religious freedoms at Georgetown University, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn, asserted that although he thinks religion is not "inherently a good thing," the U.S. should do more to influence foreign governments into protecting the religious liberties of their citizens.