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04/29/2013Hundreds Participate in Idaho March for Pastor Saeed Abedini
More than 250 people participated in a charity rally in Nampa, Idaho, and raised money to show support for U.S. Pastor Saeed Abedini, who is in jail in Iran and has been tortured because of his Christian faith.
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Man Stabs 4 Choir Members in New Mexico Church
A 24-year-old man suddenly jumped out of the pews and stabbed four people of the choir at a Catholic church in Albuquerque, N.M., as a Sunday Mass was nearing its end, police and witnesses said. The attacker was not a parishioner.
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04/29/2013Boston Bombing Suspect 'Discussed Jihad' With Mother
A call secretly taped by a Russian government agency shows that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev "vaguely discussed" jihad with his mother in 2011, U.S. officials said.
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04/28/2013Rapper Shai Linne Explains Why He Named Names in 'Fal$e Teacher$'
Rapper Shai Linne, who criticized the "prosperity gospel" and identified popular televangelists like Joel Osteen, T.D. Jakes, Paula White and Benny Hinn as its preachers in his new song "Fal$e Teacher$," explains why chose to name names despite knowing it was "dangerous."
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04/28/2013US Military Unblocks Southern Baptist Website
The website for the Southern Baptist Convention was unblocked after a piece of malware briefly shut down access to www.SBC.net on some military installations this week. Some Christian activists had accused the Defense Department of blocking the site intentionally.
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04/28/2013Obama Asks God to Bless Planned Parenthood; Blasts Opponents
President Barack Obama has praised Planned Parenthood while lambasting its pro-life critics at the pro-choice group's national conference in Washington D.C., ending his prepared remarks with seeking God's blessing upon the organization.
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04/27/2013Boston Bombing Suspect Moved From Hospital to Prison; FBI Shifts Focus to Deadly Plot
The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect was moved from a hospital on Friday to a federal prison medical center. FBI agents have, meanwhile, shifted the focus of their probe to how the deadly plot was carried out and searched for evidence in a landfill near the college he attended.
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04/27/2013LDS Church Criticized for Endorsing Boy Scouts' Proposal on Accepting Gay Members
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is the nation's largest sponsor of the Boy Scouts of America, is being criticized for endorsing a BSA proposal that would allow gay youths to join local troops while continuing to exclude gay leaders.
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04/27/2013Pastor Saeed Abedini Excluded From State Department's Iran Prisoners List
The U.S. State Department's "virtual embassy" to Iran, which highlights that country's human rights abuses, has a site listing those jailed for dissent or religious beliefs but it doesn't include imprisoned American Pastor Saeed Abedini, who has been tortured because of his Christian faith.
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04/19/2013Slain Boston Bombing Suspect was 'Very Religious'
New details have emerged about the life of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was shot dead by police early Friday morning. A refugee from Chechnya, the suspect appears to be a "very religious" Muslim with no American friend.
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04/19/2013World Vision Launches $500 Million 'Rescue Mission' Initiative to Fill Gap of Foreign Aid Cuts
Evangelical Christian humanitarian group World Vision has launched a $500 million initiative to help 10 million poor children globally with water, health services and child protection, at a time when foreign aid continues to be threatened by government cuts and sequestration.
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Megachurch Pastor's Niece, Disney Star Fight US Hunger in Schools
Pastor Joel Osteen's niece, Olivia Osteen, and Jake Short, star of the Disney comedy hit show "A.N.T. Farm," are promoting a nationwide charity aimed at fighting hunger in schools through a public service announcement filmed at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.
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Out-of-Wedlock Births Need to Be 'Stigmatized,' Welfare Expert Says
The American society and public policy need to be much more authoritative about communicating the norm because certain behaviors and lifestyles are undesirable, one of the nation's leading experts on poverty and welfare said, adding that out-of-wedlock births needs to be "stigmatized."
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Stillborn Baby Found in Laundry Sheets; Hospital Apologizes
A Minnesota hospital apologized Wednesday after a worker at its off-site laundry service discovered a stillborn baby in linens being prepared for laundering. Police are trying to find how the baby ended up at the facility.
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04/18/2013Obama's 'Snubbing' of Margaret Thatcher's Funeral Criticized
President Barack Obama's decision not to attend or dispatch high-ranking members of his administration to the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Wednesday was criticized in the United States as well as the United Kingdom.
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