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  May 15, 2020

  ERLC praises new 'safe harbor' rule protecting churches that received small COVID-19 loans

  The Small Business Administration and the U.S. Treasury issued a “safe harbor” this week to churches, businesses and other organizations that received small coronavirus relief loans under the CARES Act and now fear that their loan requests could be considered unnecessary.

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  May 15, 2020

  Lawmakers urge Pentagon to protect Christians in military from ‘anti-religion activists’

  Twenty members of Congress have signed onto a letter urging Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to protect Christian military service members who are under threat from a secular legal organization that's calling on the military to punish them for sharing their Christian faith. 

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  May 15, 2020

  Pakistan: Pastor attacked, church desecrated in attempted land grab by radical Muslims

  A church in Pakistan was attacked last Saturday by a group of Muslim men in an apparent land-grabbing attempt as systematic persecution against Christians in Pakistan continues. 

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  May 14, 2020

  Christian schools' legal team optimistic after Supreme Court weighs ministerial exception

  The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a pair of cases that could shape how far religious employers’ “ministerial exception” goes in protecting them from discrimination lawsuits brought by certain employees. 

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  May 14, 2020

  Over 20 killed in spate of new Fulani massacres on Nigerian Christians

  At least 22 people were killed in a spate of attacks carried about by suspected Fulani herdsmen in the Kajuru local government area of Nigeria’s Kaduna this week, sources told The Christian Post. 

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  May 13, 2020

  John Piper on what critics got wrong about his new book ‘Coronavirus and Christ’

  Popular Reformed theologian John Piper clarified his stance on whether the coronavirus is God’s judgment of sin and what the Bible says after a legal group called for an Army chaplain to be punished for sharing the minister's new book, Coronavirus and Christ.

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  May 12, 2020

  Suspected Fulani raid Christian school in Nigeria; 4 believers killed in another attack

  Suspected Fulani radicals in Nigeria reportedly attacked a Christian school in the Plateau state earlier this month, wounding the headmaster and his three family members two days after radicals killed four Christians in another attack.

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  May 11, 2020

  GOD TV says Israel gov't wants to shut new Christian channel down, vows to obey regulations

  The head of the international Christian television network GOD TV confirmed that Israeli authorities are looking to “shut down” its new Hebrew-language Christian channel after concerns were raised about whether the channel will proselytize to Jews. 

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  May 10, 2020

  MLB prospect says John 16 'flipped switch in his heart' after deaths of wife, baby son

  A minor league baseball player whose wife, 14-month-old son and mother-in-law were tragically killed last year, shared how God is comforting him during the hardest experience of his life and how he's overcoming Satan’s attempt to destroy him. 

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  May 9, 2020

  NC pastor arrested, accused of sexually assaulting 2 former youth group members

  The senior pastor of a North Carolina church was arrested Thursday after two people alleged that he sexually assaulted them when they were minors at a former church where he worked.