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  Jul 15, 2015

  1/3 of 10-Year-Olds Access Internet Porn, 'The New Crack Cocaine,' Health Experts Warn

  A group of health experts gathered on Capitol Hill Tuesday to brief congressional staff members on the new "public health crisis" facing America—the growing use of internet pornography among younger children and the impact it has on their mental growth and social understanding of sex.

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  Jul 15, 2015

  California Mosque Honors Evangelical Church With 'Distinguished' Interfaith Award for Helping Displaced Muslim Refugees

  A prominent mosque in Sacramento has honored an Evangelical Christian congregation for the first time with its annual award for outstanding acts of interfaith service. The accolade recognizes the church's efforts to help Middle Eastern refugees settle into their new lives in California.

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  Jul 14, 2015

  Pastor Facing 12 Years in Prison for Building a Church Gets 15-Day Release After Family Pays Iran $40K

  Pastor Behnam Irani, who's been held in an Iranian prison since 2011 because of his Christian ministry work, has received a temporary release and is now visiting with his wife and children at home for the first time in more than four years.

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  Jul 14, 2015

  Ted Cruz: $50 Billion in Obama's Iran Deal Will Be Used to Murder Americans

  Outspoken conservative Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is warning that a $50 billion signing bonus that the U.S. State Department could reportedly offer Iran as a part of a potential nuclear agreement is likely to be used to fund terrorist organizations that attack Americans and other Westerners.

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  Jul 14, 2015

  'Ex-Muslim' Pastor Naeem Fazal Refutes Claim That 'Muslim Spies Are Inside Every Church in America'

  After outspoken Jewish Author Avi Lipkin told a prominent evangelical gathering last month that "all" churches have Muslim spies cataloging Christians for the day Jihad is called on America, one former Muslim who is now a Christian pastor says Lipkin's claim is nothing more than a fear-driven "conspiracy theory."

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  Jul 12, 2015

  Two Christian Colleges Extend Employment Benefits to Same-Sex Spouses

  Two Christian colleges located in states that had their same-sex marriage bans struck down by the United States Supreme Court's June 26 decision that nationally legalized same-sex marriage are offering employment benefits to legally recognized same-sex spouses of school employees.

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  Jul 10, 2015

  Oregon Christian Bakers Forced to Pay $135K by Monday or Lien May Be Placed on Home; Husband Now Works as Trash Collector

  More than $210,000 has been raised in support of Oregon Christian bakers who are being forced by the state to pay $135,000 in "emotional damages" to a lesbian couple for declining to bake them a wedding cake in 2013, an act that would have violated their deeply-held religious convictions.

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  Jul 10, 2015

  Boko Haram Offers to Free Over 200 Chibok Schoolgirls in Exchange for Release of Imprisoned Militant Leaders

  The Nigerian terrorist outfit Boko Haram has offered the release over 200 kidnapped schoolgirls who were abducted from a boarding school over a 14 months ago in exchange for the release of multiple Boko Haram militant leaders who are being held by the Nigerian government.

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  Jul 9, 2015

  Contrary to Media Hype, World's Largest Baptist University Still Holds That 'Good Old Baylor Line' Against 'Homosexual Acts'

  Although the world's largest Baptist university, Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has removed reference to "homosexual acts" from it's sexual conduct policy, the school still stands strong in its opposition to homosexual behavior despite multiple headlines leading readers to believe the school has removed "a ban on homosexual acts."

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  Jul 8, 2015

  ISIS Executes 3 Journalists In Iraq, Syria; Two Bound to a Tree and Shot in the Head, Female Reporter Sentenced to Death by Shariah Court

  The Islamic State terrorist organization executed three journalists in Iraq and Syria this week, of which two were tied to a tree and shot in the head, while one was sentenced to death by a Shariah court after being accused of spying.