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  Jul 10, 2019

  How Chick-fil-A’s Christian purpose statement helped revitalize chain on ‘brink of going under'

  While Chick-fil-A has blossomed over the last several decades to become America’s third-largest restaurant chain, there was a time during the financial recession in the 1980s when it looked as though the Christian-run business was on the “brink” of closing as mall development stopped. 

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  Jul 9, 2019

  State Dept. launches new Commission on Unalienable Rights; liberals voice opposition

  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced this week the formation of a controversial State Department Commission on Unalienable Rights, which will help him define human rights as the definition has “drifted” through the years to accommodate abortion and LGBT rights.  

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  Jul 8, 2019

  2 Christian students suspended for alleged homophobic comments; parents outraged

  Two 10-year-old Christian students were suspended for five days last month after they were accused of using “homophobic” language when objecting to an LGBT Pride Month primary school assignment. 

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  Jul 8, 2019

  Christian student expelled over views on homosexuality in UK wins court appeal

  A Christian student who was expelled from his master’s degree studies in social work by the University of Sheffield over a Facebook post about his religious beliefs on homosexuality got a legal victory at the Court of Appeal in England. 

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  Jul 7, 2019

  Ethiopian authorities order evangelical church to shut down, Christians forced to leave

  An evangelical church in central Ethiopia has been ordered to vacate its building, 10 years after it started meeting there, and churches elsewhere in the region say pressure is increasing on them too.

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  Jul 5, 2019

  IKEA ex-employee sues company for firing over quoting Bible verses on homosexuality

  The popular Sweden-based furniture retailer IKEA is being sued after it fired an employee in Poland for posting Bible verses to voice his objection to the company’s promotion of LGBT rights. 

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  Jul 3, 2019

  3 American children removed from parents' home by Norway’s child services

  An American mother now living in Norway is asking for the return of her three American-born children after they were removed from the family home in May, less than a year after moving to the Scandinavian country from Atlanta, Georgia.

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  Jul 3, 2019

  Samuel Rodriguez tours border detention facility, slams media ‘misinformation’

  Competing narratives on how detained immigrant children are being treated in border facilities continue to emerge as a group of evangelical pastors and Democrat members of Congress reflected Monday on what they saw during separate border visits.  

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  Jul 2, 2019

  Manhattan Chick-fil-A vandalized during LGBT pride parade

  A Chick-fil-A restaurant was vandalized during a gay pride parade in New York City last weekend apparently over the beliefs of the fast-food company’s president. 

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  Jul 1, 2019

  2020 Dems appeal to an 'imaginary god created in their own minds,' Robert Jeffress says

  Dallas megachurch pastor and one of President Donald Trump’s spiritual advisors Robert Jeffress criticized the Democratic Party’s recent hiring of a faith outreach director, saying Saturday morning that it is a “godless party” looking to an “imaginary God.”