100 underground Christians arrested in Chinese overnight raids
Christians are reportedly being pressured to sign promises not to attend Early Rain Covenant Church.
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Politics - World
Poland accepts refugee mother who fled Norway’s child welfare services
The woman sought asylum when she feared the Norwegian government was about to take her child away.
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Chinese city bans public displays of Christmas, cites ‘clean city’ as reason
The ban includes Christmas trees on streets, Christmas advertisements (posters and banners), and outdoor performances.
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New education guidelines claim ‘all genders’ can have periods
'Trans boys and men and non-binary people may have periods,' Brighton & Hove City Council claims.
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Asia Bibi’s Christmas will be in a ‘closed room’: British spokesman
Bibi, whose death sentence for allegedly blaspheming the prophet Mohammed was overturned, is still unable to leave Pakistan.
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Sawing off the branch on which he sits: Experts question Francis attack on popes over death penalty
Renowned philosopher Edward Feser, a Dominican theologian and a Catholic historian weigh in on the Pope’s new comments on capital punishment.
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Room at the inn: Catholic hospital serves all moms and babies in Bethlehem
Holy Family Hospital has been likened to a 'modern day manger.'
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Watch Irish voters learn how extreme their new abortion regime will be
Ireland will allow abortion until birth for babies with disabilities.
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Chinese Catholic bishop cedes office to gov’t-backed cleric at pope’s request: reports
Pope Francis apparently asked as a gesture of obedience 'and of sacrifice for the general situation of the Chinese Church,' that the bishop let the communist-appointed one take over.
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Pope Francis: Former popes ignored mercy in using ‘inhuman’ death penalty
‘The acceptance of this form of punishment was the consequence of a contemporary mentality, more legalistic than Christian, which sacralized the value of laws lacking in humanity and mercy.’
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