Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Oct 31, 2014

  Christian Father Banned From Daughter's School After Confrontation Over Mandatory 3-Page Essay on the Five Pillars of Islam

  A Maryland public high school has banned the father of one of its Christian students from the premises, alleging that he threatened to disrupt the school environment after the vice principal did not give into his complaints about the school's history curriculum, which includes teaching components of Islam.

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  Oct 30, 2014

  Four More North Carolina Judges Resign Over Refusal To Conduct Same-Sex Weddings

  Since gay marriage was legalized in North Carolina on Oct. 10, at least six North Carolina judges have resigned from their benches because they do not want to disobey their Christian belief and conduct same-sex marriages.

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  Oct 30, 2014

  ISIS Militants Plant Bombs Inside Villagers' Homes to Explode When They Return, Says Iraqi Christian Whose Town Was Captured

  A Christian who was one of the last to flee his village in the Nineveh Province of northern Iraq before Islamic State jihadists captured it in August claims that ISIS militants are setting up explosives inside of homes so that if residents are ever to return to the village, their houses will explode upon entering.

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  Oct 30, 2014

  'Stoned' Street Preachers' Freedom Of Speech Case To Be Reviewed By US Appeals Court

  A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has voted to review a case that claims police officers in a Michigan town failed to protect the freedom of speech for 12 evangelizing Christian street preachers who were pelted with stones and water bottles by a crowd of Muslims while preaching at an Arab festival in 2012.

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  Oct 29, 2014

  Kurdish Female Forces Are Fighting ISIS in Kobane to Protect the 'Rights of Women Everywhere'

  The Kurdish female commander in charge of leading all women fighters against Islamic State in the battle over the border town of Kobane is calling on women throughout the world to help defeat the Islamic State and end its mistreatment of women.

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  Oct 29, 2014

  Radicalized British Mother Takes 1-Y-O Son With Her to Join Islamic State in Syria

  A 25-year-old British mother is believed to have traveled to Syria, along with her 1-year-old baby son, to join Islamic State extremists in their Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, according to her family.

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  Oct 28, 2014

  IRS Has Been Seizing Bank Accounts of Law-Abiding Small Business Owners

  Using the powers granted under the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000, which was designed to help federal agencies catch drug dealers, terrorists and other criminals, the Internal Revenue Service has been legally seizing the bank accounts of normal, run-of-the-mill business owners who have consistently made cash bank deposits less than the federal bank reporting minimum of $10,000.

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  Oct 28, 2014

  Colorado School District Defends Teachers Sued for Participation in Operation Christmas Child, Adventures in Missions

  A Colorado public school district defended its teachers and principals who came under fire by a humanist group lawsuit alleging that the school officials used their positions to promote student involvement in missions established by Christian evangelical organizations.

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  Oct 28, 2014

  90 Percent of Iraq's Orthodox Christians Are Displaced, Only 30 of 600 Orthodox Families Remain in Baghdad

  As Islamic State extremists continue their reign of terror through Iraq and Syria, the chaos, violence and persecution forced upon the thousands of people in the region has caused 90 percent of Orthodox Christians in Iraq to flee the sanctity of their homes, according to the Greek Orthodox Bishop for Baghdad, Ghattas Hazim.

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  Oct 27, 2014

  ISIS Leaders Threaten Fighters Who Want to Leave the Islamic State and Return to Their Homeland

  As many foreign fighters are becoming disillusioned by the Islamic State's atrocious violence and are considering fleeing the conflict to return to the safety of their homeland, ISIS leaders are using death threats and imprisonment to force the fighters to stay.