Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Nov 26, 2025

  Armenia’s crackdown on Apostolic Church risks US relationship after Trump deal, advocates warn

  The recent arrests of senior church leaders in the world’s first Christian nation are effectively silencing clergy from one of the world’s oldest churches and could hinder Armenia’s growing relationship with the United States, human rights experts warned in a bid to raise the awareness of lawmakers on Capitol Hill. 

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  Nov 19, 2025

  Christian ethnic cleansing survivors given new homes, aim to spark ‘revival’ of Armenian village

  Several families displaced by ethnic cleansing in their ancient Christian homeland more than two years ago were given new homes and plots of land on Tuesday through a charitable initiative seeking to help revitalize a rural Armenian mountain village. 

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  Oct 26, 2025

  The plight of Artsakh Christians and their dream to return home: 'Forgotten by everyone'

  Leaders with the Artsakh government-in-exile are voicing their displeasure in the wake of the Aug. 8 peace agreement and memorandum of understanding between Armenia and Azerbaijan brokered by President Donald Trump at the White House, feeling the terms leave the people of Artsakh behind and solidify the injustices carried out against them under the leadership of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev's regime. 

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  Oct 1, 2025

  MLK's niece tells child victims of ethnic cleansing, violence how art helped her overcome the pain her life

  Alveda King shared a message of hope with young kindred spirits over 6,000 miles away from her home, in Armenia, bonding over their shared use of art as a means to process the pain in their lives.

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  Aug 8, 2025

  Why don't American Christians care about the ethnic cleansing of an ancient Christian homeland?

  The plight of Armenian Christian families forced from their ancestral homeland in 2023 has fallen on many deaf ears in the last two years, but organizations are hoping to mobilize Evangelical Christians in the U.S. to help their suffering brothers and sisters in Christ.

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  Dec 27, 2023

  IHOPKC cuts ties with Mike Bickle after new information confirms inappropriate behavior

  The International House of Prayer in Kansas City has cut ties with its founder, Mike Bickle, after receiving new information related to allegations of clergy abuse against him.

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  Jul 4, 2023

  Nashville mourns 49-year-old pastor who led at-risk youth away from life of crime

  City leaders in Nashville, Tennessee, are mourning the death of a 49-year-old Nashville pastor who is widely known for helping lead at-risk teenagers and former gang members away from a life of crime.

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  May 30, 2023

  California megachurch wants to keep historic Evangelical church alive as a satellite campus

  The northern California Pentecostal megachurch Destiny Christian Church has preliminarily agreed to assume leadership of Sacramento’s Capital Christian Center, which is suffering from the “destabilization of its financial foundation” and faces allegations of abuse cover-up against its founder. 

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  May 29, 2023

  95 Louisiana churches leave UMC amid denominational schism over homosexuality

  Nearly 100 United Methodist Church congregations in Louisiana had their disaffiliation votes ratified by the regional conference last weekend, joining hundreds of others nationwide that have left the mainline Protestant denomination in the last year amid a schism over homosexuality. 

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  Apr 8, 2023

  Judge suspends FDA approval of abortion pill, blames 'political pressure' for lack of restrictions

  A federal judge in Texas suspended the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of the chemical abortion pill nationwide Friday. Not long after, a federal judge in Washington state issued an opposite ruling that could force the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in.