Samuel Smith

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  Feb 6, 2015

  Boko Haram Mimics ISIS in Brutality, Creating Caliphate With 20,000-Square-Mile, Belgium-Sized Territory, Warns Open Doors Head

  With Boko Haram recently seizing its own 20,000-square-mile territory in Northern Nigeria, all signs indicate that the extremist group is working toward building a Caliphate, or Islamic government ruled by a Caliph, that could span across Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, a top Christian persecution watchdog leader warned.

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  Feb 5, 2015

  Purpose of College is Not to Get a Job, is to Instill Ethical Responsibilities, Say Presidents of Catholic University, Yeshiva University

  The presidents from three leading American faith-based universities convened Wednesday to discuss the role of faith-based colleges in an increasingly secular society and agreed that faith-based schools, more so than secular schools, stress the importance of living lives filled with morals, ethics and responsibility to others.

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  Feb 5, 2015

  ISIS Hijacks Anti-Islamic State Video Game, Modifies It to Recruit Children to Kill Westerners

  Supporters of the Islamic State terrorist organization are distributing a recently modified version of a popular first-person shooter video game that allows gamers to role play as ISIS militants who are on a mission to murder westerners.

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  Feb 4, 2015

  Atheist Makes Over $100K a Year on Spanish Bible App He Created for iTunes

  An atheist man in California is making over $100,000 per year off of a Spanish Bible iPhone app that he created in an attempt to earn a little extra income to help him pay his rent every month.

• Feb 4, 2015

  UK Minister's Car Insurance Says Jesus Bumper Stickers Violates Policy, Could Lead to Canceled Coverage

  An elderly British minister was warned by her car insurance company that her auto coverage could be voided because of the Jesus-phrased decals that she put on her vehicle.

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  Feb 3, 2015

  NC Judges Could Decline to Officiate Gay Marriage Ceremonies Under Proposed Legislation

  After North Carolina's gay marriage ban was overturned by a federal judge last October, conservative state lawmakers are backing a bill that would allow county judges and court officials to recuse themselves from performing marriage ceremonies if they hold religious objections to performing same-sex ceremonies.

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  Feb 2, 2015

  Boko Haram Planning Large-Scale Attacks Using Young Boys and Animals as Suicide Bombers

  A Nigerian official is warning that the terrorist group Boko Haram, which aims to establish its Islamic caliphate in Nigeria, plans to conduct a number of large-scale suicide attacks using not only young boys, but cattle and other livestock, as well.

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  Feb 2, 2015

  Franklin Graham Says US Is Controlled by Secularists Who 'Deny Jesus Ever Existed'

  Leading evangelist Franklin Graham says that while his father, world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham, rarely addressed issues concerning secular society, he's doing so because unlike when his father grew up, the U.S. is controlled by secularists who want to "deny that Jesus ever existed."

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  Jan 30, 2015

  Nigerian Pastor 'Butchered' to Death by Muslim Herdsmen; Remembered as Dedicated Servant to the Poor Who Educated Over 400 Kids for Free

  A popular Nigerian pastor, who is touted as a dedicated servant to the poor, was "butchered" to death last week on his way back from pastoral duties by Muslim Fulani herdsmen, whom some say could be linked to the terrorist group Boko Haram.

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  Jan 30, 2015

  Gay Marriage 'Graver Threat' Than Divorce, Cohabitation, Rick Warren, Other Evangelicals, Catholics Declare

  Influential megachurch pastor Rick Warren and 49 other Catholic and Evangelical scholars and intellectuals have signed their names to an eight-page declaration that opposes society's growing acceptance of same-sex marriages and labels homosexual unions as a "graver threat" to marriage than widespread divorce and cohabitation.