World
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Philippine church bombing was carried out by Indonesian couple, says interior minister
The Philippine interior minister said an Indonesian couple with ties to an Islamic State-linked group are behind a church bombing that killed 20 people last weekend.
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Pastor says Facebook blocked his pro-life post for going against Community Standards
Facebook has been accused of blocking the pro-life post of a pastor who criticised New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over his newly passed late-term abortion bill.
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Churches step in to help people fleeing chaos in Venezuela
Churches are offering practical and psychological help to people fleeing political and economic turmoil in Venezuela.
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Virginia lawmaker apologises for supporting controversial late-term abortion bill
A Virginia lawmaker has apologised for being co-patron to a radical late-term abortion bill she says she never would have backed if she had read it properly.
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Kim Davis may be forced to pay $225,000 over gay marriage licence battle
Kim Davis, the Christian clerk jailed after refusing to issue same-sex marriage licences, may be forced to pay $225,000 in legal and court fees incurred by gay couples suing her.
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Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine of meddling in Orthodox faith, warns Russia will 'protect freedom of religion'
Putin said that Russia reserved the right to defend people's rights to worship.
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'LGBT agenda' could be putting churches at financial risk, says Francis Chan
The Crazy Love author suggested that the 'LGBT agenda' may jeopardise the tax breaks that so many churches in the West rely on to stay afloat.
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Persecution spreading at a 'rapid rate' across India
Persecution in India is at its highest level in 70 years, a new report has warned.
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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam denies supporting infanticide after backing late-term abortion bill
'The infant would be resuscitated, if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother,' Governor Northam said during an interview with WTOP-FM radio station.
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Marathon church service ends at last as Dutch let Armenian family stay
Bethel Church in The Hague had been conducting continuous worship since October 26, 2018, in support of a family of Armenian asylum-seekers who had taken refuge there.
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Christian Aid warns Penny Mordaunt against 'playing politics' with international aid
Mordaunt, who is tipped as a prospective candidate in Conservative Party leadership elections, has said private funding should be part of the target.
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How African churches are booming in London's backstreets
Around 250 black majority churches are believed to operate in the borough of Southwark, where 16 per cent of the population identifies as having African ethnicity.
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Boycott Israel's 'artwashed' Eurovision 2019, pro-Palestinian activists say
The call by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement is part of a broader campaign to pressure governments, companies, performers and academics to disengage from Israel.
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New Jersey introduces gender neutral birth certificates
New Jersey is changing its birth certificates to include a third non-binary gender category from February 1.
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Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz says New York's new abortion law is 'demonic'
The pastor of Hillsong NYC has blasted the legalisation of abortion up to birth as 'shameful and demonic'.