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  Mar 17, 2020

  LifeWay creates online Sunday school alternative for kids as churches respond to coronavirus

  The Southern Baptist Convention’s publishing arm, Lifeway Christian Resources, is offering a free, in-home children’s Bible study program available to churches of all kinds that have postponed their services due to the coronavirus outbreak. 

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  Mar 17, 2020

  Nigerian Christian teen escapes captors weeks after abduction, forced conversion to Islam

  A Nigerian Christian girl who was abducted in January and forced to convert to Islam has finally been reunited with her family in the country’s northcentral Kaduna state. 

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  Mar 16, 2020

  Retiring pastor of Minnesota's largest megachurch opens up about his struggles with anger

  After over nearly three decades of leading what has grown to become the largest church in Minnesota, pastor Bob Merritt has retired from the nine-campus Eagle Brook Church. 

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  Mar 14, 2020

  Nigerian priest details 6 ways Christians face discrimination in Nigeria

  A Nigerian priest who oversees trauma care for people victimized by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria visited the United States this week to share concerns about how Christians are facing lesser-known forms of societal discrimination because of their faith in Christ. 

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  Mar 12, 2020

  5 things to know about Joe Biden

  Former Vice President Joe Biden is beginning to pull away as the frontrunner in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary election as he picked up key victories to extend his delegate lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the March 10 primaries. 

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  Mar 12, 2020

  NAE’s first minority president to focus on reconciliation amid evangelical identity crisis

  The National Association of Evangelicals inaugurated Virginia pastor Walter Kim as its first-ever minority president last week as he hopes to foster “reconciliation” and “spiritual renewal” for the 45,000-church network amid what he believes is an “identity crisis” in a politically divisive culture.

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  Mar 11, 2020

  350 Nigerian Christians killed in first 2 months of 2020: NGO report

  A Nigerian civil society organization claims that no fewer than 350 Christians have been killed across the West African country since the start of 2020 and estimates that about 11,500 Christians have been killed since 2015. 

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  Mar 10, 2020

  5 things to know about Bernie Sanders 

  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is one of three candidates left vying for the Democratic nomination for president after five candidates dropped out of the race last week. Here's a list of five things to know about the self-described Democratic Socialist.

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  Mar 10, 2020

  How are communism and Islamism similar? Muslim reformer explains

  Speaking on a panel discussion at the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference, Muslim reformer Asra Nomani offered her thoughts on the similarities between “communism” and “Islamism” as both ideologies try to squash religious freedom.

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  Mar 10, 2020

  Iran extends Christian convert's sentence 2 years for 'evangelical Zionist Christianity'

  A 65-year-old Iranian Christian convert who was sentenced to three years in prison for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs” in January has been sentenced to two more years in prison while nine other converts lost appeals of their five-year sentences.