Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Sep 3, 2015

  Oklahoma Wesleyan University Now 2nd Christian College to Leave CCCU Over Hiring of Gay Professors

  Oklahoma Wesleyan University announced this week that the institution is dropping out of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities because of the council's inaction against two member schools that announced earlier this summer that they'll hire professors who are married to a same-sex partner.

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  Sep 3, 2015

  Dead Body of 3-Y-O Syrian Boy Washes Up on Turkish Beach After Family Flees ISIS to Seek Asylum in Canada

  Images emerging Wednesday of a drowned 3-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed ashore face-down on a Turkish beach have rocked social media with the sad reality of the risks that hundreds of thousands of refugee families are taking just to find peace and liberty away from the nation's civil war and the rise of the Islamic State.

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  Sep 2, 2015

  Josh Duggar Missing From Christian Treatment Center's Mandatory Church Services; Questions Raised About His Whereabouts

  Former Christian reality television star and former social conservative activist Josh Duggar has reportedly not attended mandatory church services that are included in the rehabilitation program that he's believed to be enrolled in after it came to light that he cheated on his wife and allegedly twice paid to have sex with a porn star.

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  Sep 2, 2015

  Avoid 'Evil' Act of Helping Pope Too Much During US Visit, Church-State Separation Group Warns Local Governments

  Quoting an appeals court ruling, such aid is the type of "specific evil" the First Amendment "was designed to prevent," the group said.

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  Sep 1, 2015

  Kentucky Clerk Is Wrong to Deny Gay Marriage Licenses, Says Same-Sex Marriage Opponent

  Prominent conservative activist and author Ryan T. Anderson, one of the most prolific thinkers opposing the redefinition of marriage, thinks the Supreme Court made the right decision Monday in refusing to hear a case from a Christian Kentucky clerk who is denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

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  Sep 1, 2015

  Over 150 High Schoolers Stage Walkout Protest After Trans Student Seeks to Use Girls' Locker Room

  Over 150 students at a Missouri high school walked out of class Monday and staged a two-hour protest to voice their disapproval with a transgender student's request to use the girls' locker room to change for her physical education class.

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  Aug 31, 2015

  Franklin Graham Calls Univ. of Tennessee's Transgender Pronouns 'Ze' and 'Zir' Advisory 'Ridiculous'

  Leading evangelist Franklin Graham took to Facebook last Friday to voice his disapproval with the University of Tennessee's new practice of encouraging students and faculty to use gender-neutral pronouns like "ze" and "zir" instead of gender specific pronouns like "she" and "her."

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  Aug 31, 2015

  O'Malley, Sanders Believe DNC 'Rigged' Debate Process to Help Hillary Win Democratic Nomination

  Democratic presidential candidates Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders believe that the Democratic party leadership has created a debate schedule that is "rigged" to help Democratic frontrunner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton win the party's nomination.

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  Aug 31, 2015

  ISIS Fighters Hoist Iraqi Prisoners Over Flames and Burn Them Alive in Barbaric New Video

  The Islamic State terrorist organization has released a heinous execution video purporting to show another one of the group's sick new execution methods in which four Iraqi prisoners were burned to death by being suspended by their hands and feet over roaring flames.

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  Aug 31, 2015

  Deaf Bible Society Takes the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Deaf Communities Manipulated by ISIS

  The Deaf Bible Society has started a movement to bring the story of Jesus in sign language to the deaf community in the Middle East for the first time ever as a way to combat the Islamic State terrorist organization's efforts of recruiting the overlooked deaf populations with promises of a "false hope."