Samuel Smith

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  Dec 25, 2018

  Indiana school district bars coaches from participating in team prayers after atheist complaint

  An Indiana public school district says that starting in January 2019, coaches and staff will be barred from participating in team prayers led by students.

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  Dec 22, 2018

  FRC warns Trump's Syria withdraw plans will put Christians in 'mortal danger'

  One of the nation’s leading Christian conservative advocacy groups that has been supportive of the Trump administration is warning that President Donald Trump’s plans for a “full” and “rapid” withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria will put Christians in “mortal danger.”

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  Dec 21, 2018

  Trump signs prison reform bill FIRST STEP Act: 'Everybody said it couldn’t be done'

  President Donald Trump signed into law on Friday what proponents say is the most comprehensive federal prison reform bill in decades.

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  Dec 21, 2018

  Catholic senior center accused of censorship denies barring residents from saying 'Merry Christmas'

  A Catholic senior center in Washington state is refuting claims that it has barred residents from saying “Merry Christmas” and singing Christmas carols but is "doubling down" on a policy prohibiting residents from decorating the exterior of their apartment doors.

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  Dec 20, 2018

  Gov. Kasich accused of trying to score 'political points' in transgender policy change

  A conservative group is accusing Ohio Gov. John Kasich of trying to “score political points on the way out the door” by issuing an executive action this week to ban gender identity discrimination in state employment.

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  Dec 20, 2018

  5 churches win court case against Wisconsin town's transgender bathroom ordinance

  A Wisconsin judge has ruled that the town of De Pere must provide churches and religious organizations exemptions to an LGBT non-discrimination ordinance that among other things would have required them to allow access to bathrooms on the basis of a person’s gender identity.

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  Dec 20, 2018

  Samaritan's Purse receives PETA award for airlifting starving tiger and lion

  The Franklin Graham-led evangelical humanitarian aid agency has won an award from the nation’s leading animal rights organization for helping save the lives of a tiger and lion left starving after a giant typhoon.

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  Dec 20, 2018

  Christian conservatives defend Muslim teacher who lost job for refusing pro-Israel contract

  Prominent Christian conservatives and other supporters of the First Amendment are speaking up in defense of free speech after a Muslim school contractor in Texas claimed to have lost her job for not signing what has been described as a “pro-Israel pledge.”

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  Dec 20, 2018

  Idaho ordered to provide sex reassignment surgery to inmate jailed for sexually abusing a child

  The state of Idaho has been ordered to provide gender reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate imprisoned for the sexual abuse of a minor.

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  Dec 19, 2018

  Trump's troop withdrawal 'sacrifices' Syrian Christians, gives 'victory' to jihadis: activist

  President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria will have dire consequences for tens of thousands of Assyrian and Kurdish Christians in the northeast, self-administered part of the war-torn Middle Eastern nation, a global affairs expert warned.