Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  May 15, 2015

  Giant 14-Story 'Bulletproof' Cross Being Built in Pakistan's Largest City; Owner Claims Angry Muslims Incapable of Destroying This Christian Symbol

  In hopes of encouraging fellow Christians to stay in Pakistan in light of religious tensions, a Christian businessman in the country's largest city is building a giant 14-story cross outside the entrance to the largest Christian cemetery in Karachi.

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  May 15, 2015

  ISIS Caliph Baghdadi in New Audio Message: 'Islam Was Never a Religion of Peace,' Our Jihad Is 'The War of All Muslims'

  The Islamic State terrorist organization released a new audio message on Wednesday purporting to come from the mouth of the group's caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who asserted that Islam is not the religion of peace, but rather the religion of violence.

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  May 15, 2015

  ISIS Militants Are Making Millions Off of Human Smuggling Trade From Libya Into Europe, Report Finds

  As conditions in the Middle East and Africa are causing thousands of people to seek ways to migrate into Europe, terrorist organizations like the Islamic State are profiting handsomely off of people that are trying to flee from the chaos these groups have helped cause, a recent report has found.

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  May 14, 2015

  Creed's Born-Again Singer Scott Stapp Opens Up About Psychotic Meltdown: I Thought My Family Joined ISIS, I Drove Around for a Month Chasing an Angel I Saw

  Scott Stapp, the born-again Christian frontman of the popular rock band Creed, has opened up about his psychotic breakdown that progressively worsened last winter and admitted that it was brought on by drug and alcohol abuse while adding that he has also been diagnosed as bipolar.

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  May 14, 2015

  American Christians Not Going to Iraq to Help ISIS Victims Is a 'Black Eye in the Face of Jesus,' Bronx Pastor Asserts (Interview)

  As hundreds of thousands of Christians and religious minorities are living homeless in Iraq due to the rise of the Islamic State, a pastor from New York City says it's a "total embarrassment" that most American Christians are not willing to travel to the Kurdish region of Iraq to care for the persecuted.

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  May 14, 2015

  Iraqi Nun Displaced by ISIS to Congress: Christians in Iraq Have 'No Identity' in the Midst of Jihadis' Quest to 'Wipe Earth Clean' of Christian Existence

  An Iraqi nun who has been displaced by the Islamic State terrorist organization told Congress members on Wednesday that Christians in Iraq have lost everything, including their own dignity and history, as ISIS continues its quest to completely erase "evidence" of Christianity's existence in the region.

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  May 13, 2015

  10 Kentucky Homeschool Kids to Remain in State Custody After Father's Oldest Son Claims He Was Sexually Abused

  The estranged 19-year-old son of the father of 10 Kentucky homeschool children who were seized by police last week due to concerns with the family's off-the-grid lifestyle testified in a Monday custody hearing that his father physically and sexually abused him as a small child.

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  May 12, 2015

  Christian Leaders Receive Death Threats From Muslims in Pakistan for Building Churches, Not Converting to Islam

  Christian leaders in the Pakistani city of Lahore are saying that they've received death threats over the past few months because of their involvement in the building of churches in the area.

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  May 12, 2015

  Megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress: Satan 'Delivered' Islam to Muhammad, Following Islam Will 'Lead You to Hell'

  Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress said Sunday during his "Countdown to the Apocalypse," sermon series that it was Satan who delivered the religion of Islam to the prophet Muhammad and further asserted that following that religion will "lead you to hell."

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  May 11, 2015

  Police Remove 10 Homeschool Kids From Parents' Custody Due to Off-The-Grid, Self-Sufficient Lifestyle

  A local sheriff's office in Western Kentucky has seized 10 devout Christian homeschool children from their parents after an allegation was filed claiming that the family's "off-the-grid," homestead lifestyle placed the children in dangerous living conditions.