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China “revokes probation” of Christian lawyer already jailed at secret location for 2 years
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In the first official word from Chinese authorities about Christian human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who disappeared into police custody nearly two years ago, police say they have revoked his probation and are sending him back to prison. The puzzling announcement was made in a brief official Xinhua News Agency dispatch was a devastating blow to…
It’s ‘Christmas tree,’ say irked Rhode Islanders
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Although Governor Lincoln Chafee has decided to declare the decorated evergreen in the State Capitol’s Rotunda a “holiday tree,” a chorus of Rhode Islanders are proclaiming it a Christmas Tree. In fact, a local talk show host is planning a “flash mob” at the governor’s ceremonial lighting — and is hoping more than 1,000 singers…
Iran official says illegal churches harm youth
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As the anniversary of Iran’s 2010 Christmas raids on Christian homes and house-based churches approaches, Iran’s minister of intelligence has announced that underground Evangelical churches pose a serious threat to the nation’s youth. Meanwhile a senior Iranian religious official said Christianity is worse than Satanism. Inelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said the Ministry of Intelligence “has already…
Christians the “target of every progressive thinker and half-witted comedian”
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Canadian TV commentator Rex Murphy is tired of Christians turning the other cheek. “There is a radical inconsistency to the treatment afforded to Christian believers and that of most other religious groups,” he writes in the Canadian daily newspaper the National Post. “It would be rather nice if so many people, the Christians of the…
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