Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Nov 8, 2019

  Trump strips Cameroon of US trade benefits over torture, human rights abuses

  President Donald Trump has stripped trade benefits from Cameroon over accusations that its military has committed human rights abuses against civilians and separatists in the West African country’s two civil war-ridden Anglophone regions. 

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  Nov 8, 2019

  Nearly half of young adults with ties to Christianity say church can’t answer their questions: survey

  Extensive new research from The Barna Group shows that nearly half of young adults worldwide who have a connection to Christianity feel that the Church can’t answer their questions. 

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  Nov 6, 2019

  Swiss Protestant church network votes in favor of same-sex marriage

  The Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches, a Reformed association uniting 26 member churches and nearly 1,000 congregations, voted during a nationwide assembly this week to allow same-sex marriages. 

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  Nov 6, 2019

  Birth coach in UK resigns over Facebook post stating 'women birth all people'

  A birth coach in the United Kingdom has resigned from the national association for birth coaches, Doula UK, after she was “ostracized” for a Facebook post that claimed that “women birth all people.”

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  Nov 5, 2019

  Anne Graham Lotz: Trump's Syria pullback could set up war prophesied in Ezekiel 38

  Evangelist Anne Graham Lotz, the daughter of the late Billy Graham, put forward the question of whether God is working through President Trump’s decision to pull back U.S. troops in Northern Syria to usher in a war prophesied in Ezekiel 38.

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  Nov 5, 2019

  Zero refugees resettled to the US in October; thousands left in state of uncertainty

  Zero refugees were admitted into the United States during October despite worsening humanitarian situations around the world, the evangelical resettlement agency World Relief has warned. 

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  Nov 1, 2019

  Common objections to Christianity (part 2)

  Just by being born, why do I inherit Adam’s sin? Why does God allow suffering, bad things to happen? Evangelicals’ treatment of LGBT persons has been abhorrent.

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  Oct 31, 2019

  Common objections to Christianity (part 1)

  How do I reconcile creation and evolution? How can a loving God send people to Hell? Is there any evidence for the existence of God? How can God command morally repulsive acts in the Old Testament?

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  Oct 27, 2019

  A third of pastors and missionaries have less than $100K saved for retirement: LifeWay

  More than one-third of retirement-age pastors and missionaries have less than $100,000 in their retirement savings as nearly one-half of them are concerned about their family’s financial future, according to new data published by LifeWay Research.

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  Oct 26, 2019

  Half of Americans says First Amendment 'goes too far,' speech should be censored: poll

  Half of Americans say they believe the First Amendment “goes too far” in allowing free speech and favor some form of censorship, a new poll suggests.