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  Oct 5, 2021

  Andrew Yang quits Democratic Party, warns ‘polarization is getting worse than ever’

  Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang who also failed in his bid to become the next mayor of New York City this year, announced Monday that he has broken up with the Democratic Party to join America’s largest voting bloc of independents because politics has become too polarizing.

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  Oct 5, 2021

  Hillsong's Brian Houston denies concealing father’s alleged abuse of boy

  Hillsong Church’s founder and Global Senior Pastor Brian Houston denied allegations in court Tuesday that he concealed his late father’s sex abuse of a young boy during the 1970s shielding him from criminal prosecution.

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  Oct 4, 2021

  Christian teen brothers charged with attempted murder of mother, church ‘praying for all involved’

  A 16-year-old homeschooled Christian boy and his 13-year-old brother were arrested in Elverta, California, last Monday for attempting to murder their mother and 10-year-old brother, who have been hospitalized and are in critical condition, police say.

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  Oct 4, 2021

  Researchers claim biblical Sodom was destroyed by massive asteroid, scholars disagree

  The Tall el-Hammam, an archaeological site in Jordan also known as TeHEP, is the biblical Sodom referenced in the Genesis account of Sodom and Gomorrah, Steven Collins, chief archaeologist and co-director of the project, has claimed.

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  Oct 4, 2021

  Biden Justice Dept. calls Texas abortion law ‘scheme of vigilante justice’ in push to block it

  Calling it an "unprecedented scheme of vigilante justice," an attorney for the U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge on Friday to block Texas' controversial Senate Bill 8 law, which prohibits abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

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  Oct 1, 2021

  Kris Vallotton addresses old sermon claiming he's seen restored virginity in young people

  Senior associate leader of Bethel Church and co-founder of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry in Redding, California, Kris Vallotton has clarified clips from a 2014 lesson on sexual purity in which he claimed to have "seen thousands of people's virginity restored" after they recently went viral on TikTok.

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  Oct 1, 2021

  NY gov. unfairly invoked God to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations, lawyer tells 2nd Circuit

  An attorney for a conservative group argued in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan Wednesday that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has unfairly used God to encourage people to take COVID-19 vaccines as she argues there are no legitimate religious reasons to avoid taking them.

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  Sep 30, 2021

  Planned Parenthood: Texas law turned call centers into hotlines for people pregnant 'against their will'

  The head of the largest abortion provider in the United States is alleging that Texas' heartbeat abortion ban has turned her organization's call centers into “crisis hotlines” for people who have become pregnant “against their will.”

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  Sep 30, 2021

  ERLC, faith groups defend Texas inmate’s right to have pastor lay hands on him during execution

  The Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and the National Association of Evangelicals joined with five other faith and religious freedom groups on Monday to defend the right of a Texas death row inmate to have his pastor lay hands on him and pray as he receives a lethal injection for murdering a man in 2004.

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  Sep 29, 2021

  Some Christian medical workers reject NY gov.'s claim vaccine is God’s answer to prayer

  As thousands of healthcare professionals in New York state rushed to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that went into effect Monday, 17 Christian professionals who filed a lawsuit seeking religious exemptions earlier this month stood firm in their convictions — even under threat of losing their jobs.