Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  May 19, 2015

  Consider Religious Freedom in Trade Negotiations, Senate Unanimously Tells Obama

  The U.S. Senate voted unanimously to add a religious freedom amendment to the Trade Promotion Authority legislation, which could be the first time that Congress requires an administration to take religious liberties into consideration when negotiating international trade agreements.

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  May 18, 2015

  ISIS' Online 'Training Manual' Teaches Sympathizers How to Disguise Themselves as Westerners and Build Bombs to Carry Out Attacks

  A detailed Islamic State "secret agent" training manual has been distributed on the Internet and is designed to provide prospective ISIS supporters in Western nations with ways to disguise themselves and their motives when trying to plan and carrying out "lone wolf" attacks and espionage missions.

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  May 18, 2015

  Charlie Hebdo Suspends Columnist Who Received Death Threats for Bashing Radical Islam; Fellow Writer Claims Newspaper Is Hypocritical in Taking Disciplinary Action

  In a twist of irony, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked by Islamic extremists in January after publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, has reportedly suspended one of its columnists after she received death threats for writing critically about radical Islam.

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  May 18, 2015

  Girl Scouts of America Allows Boys Who Identify as Girls to Join Troops; Opponent Says Policy Is 'Slap in the Face to Christian Parents'

  Social conservative organizations are now raising red flags after it was recently revealed that the Girl Scouts of America are allowing boys who identify as girls to join its troops.

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  May 15, 2015

  Yazidi Girl Sold for $34 to Australian ISIS Executioner Seen in Propaganda Videos After Being Drugged, Shipped to Syria

  An escaped Yazidi teen recently revealed that while she was held by the Islamic State terrorist group, she was sold as a sex slave to a well-known Australian ISIS executioner for the equivalent of $34, reports indicate.

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  May 15, 2015

  Giant 14-Story 'Bulletproof' Cross Being Built in Pakistan's Largest City; Owner Claims Angry Muslims Incapable of Destroying This Christian Symbol

  In hopes of encouraging fellow Christians to stay in Pakistan in light of religious tensions, a Christian businessman in the country's largest city is building a giant 14-story cross outside the entrance to the largest Christian cemetery in Karachi.

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  May 15, 2015

  ISIS Caliph Baghdadi in New Audio Message: 'Islam Was Never a Religion of Peace,' Our Jihad Is 'The War of All Muslims'

  The Islamic State terrorist organization released a new audio message on Wednesday purporting to come from the mouth of the group's caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who asserted that Islam is not the religion of peace, but rather the religion of violence.

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  May 15, 2015

  ISIS Militants Are Making Millions Off of Human Smuggling Trade From Libya Into Europe, Report Finds

  As conditions in the Middle East and Africa are causing thousands of people to seek ways to migrate into Europe, terrorist organizations like the Islamic State are profiting handsomely off of people that are trying to flee from the chaos these groups have helped cause, a recent report has found.

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  May 14, 2015

  Creed's Born-Again Singer Scott Stapp Opens Up About Psychotic Meltdown: I Thought My Family Joined ISIS, I Drove Around for a Month Chasing an Angel I Saw

  Scott Stapp, the born-again Christian frontman of the popular rock band Creed, has opened up about his psychotic breakdown that progressively worsened last winter and admitted that it was brought on by drug and alcohol abuse while adding that he has also been diagnosed as bipolar.

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  May 14, 2015

  American Christians Not Going to Iraq to Help ISIS Victims Is a 'Black Eye in the Face of Jesus,' Bronx Pastor Asserts (Interview)

  As hundreds of thousands of Christians and religious minorities are living homeless in Iraq due to the rise of the Islamic State, a pastor from New York City says it's a "total embarrassment" that most American Christians are not willing to travel to the Kurdish region of Iraq to care for the persecuted.