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  Sep 2, 2020

  Eric Metaxas responds to viral video showing him hitting rioter, says he was menaced

  Christian conservative radio personality, author and "VeggieTales" writer Eric Metaxas has responded to a video that went viral on social media Friday showing him hitting a rioter who was verbally threatening and cursing at him and other guests leaving the White House on the fourth night of the Republican National Convention.

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  Sep 2, 2020

  Samaritan's Purse volunteers help victims in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura

  Out-of-state volunteers have descended upon Louisana to tend to families in need in the wake of Hurricane Laura, with dozens serving with the evangelical nonprofit Samaritan’s Purse.

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  Sep 1, 2020

  Kenosha mayor seeks $30M in aid to rebuild businesses, property destroyed by riots

  The mayor of Kenosha, Wisconsin, is seeking $30 million from the state in order to help rebuild and repair businesses and other property destroyed by riots in the week following the police shooting of African-American Jacob Blake.

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  Sep 1, 2020

  1 killed, 4 students kidnapped as gunmen invade school, church in Nigeria

  One person was killed and several others were abducted when suspected Fulani radicals were said to have attacked a secondary school and burned a church in a predominantly Christian village in Nigeria.

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  Aug 29, 2020

  4 messages demonstrators shared at the 2020 March on Washington

  On the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, thousands marched in the streets of Washington D.C. Friday to call for police reform, racial justice and a bolstering of voting rights. 

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  Aug 27, 2020

  Ark Encounter opens virtual reality experience taking people 'back in time' to Noah's Ark

  The creationist theme park Ark Encounter in northern Kentucky has launched a $3 million virtual reality experience that aims to show visitors what it would be like to travel back to see Noah’s Ark and the Genesis flood. 

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  Aug 27, 2020

  Pakistani Christian girl beaten by family employers for refusing to convert to Islam

  An 18-year-old Christian servant in Pakistan was beaten for refusing her employers' demands to convert to Islam, according to her family and a London-based human rights group.

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  Aug 26, 2020

  Cissie Graham Lynch at RNC: Biden-Harris vision leaves ‘no room for people of faith’

  Granddaughters of the late evangelist Billy Graham voiced differing opinions about President Donald Trump Tuesday, with one praising the president during a Republican National Convention speech hours after the other published an op-ed critical of Trump's evangelical supporters. 

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  Aug 26, 2020

  Muslim teen beaten, head shaved by family in France because she 'loved a Christian'

  Family members of a teenage Bosnian girl will face abuse charges after they were accused of beating the child and shaving her head when she admitted to having a relationship with a Christian man. 

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  Aug 25, 2020

  Evangelical leaders urge Trump admin. to stop summarily deporting unaccompanied migrant children

  Over a dozen prominent evangelical charities and organizations are calling on Ivanka Trump to pressure the administration to stop using the pandemic to suspend legal safeguards for unaccompanied migrant children and allowing them to be housed in hotels and deported.