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  Mar 2, 2020

  Christian college recruiter fired for lining students up by skin color, 'nappiest' hair

  An admissions counselor for Oklahoma Christian University was fired after allegedly forcing 11th-grade students at a preparatory school in Oklahoma City to line up according to skin color and “nappiest” hair during a gym assembly visit. 

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  Feb 29, 2020

  House minority leader Kevin McCarthy compares big tech censorship to China's ‘social score’ system

  While speaking at the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference Friday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California compared big tech censorship of conservatives to the “social score” system that the Chinese government uses to persecute political and religious dissidents. 

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  Feb 29, 2020

  Is the American family in better shape now than 30 years ago? CPAC speakers disagree

  The state of the American family was among the many topics of discussion at the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference, with some speakers disagreeing about whether the strength of American families is better now than it was decades ago. 

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  Feb 28, 2020

  ‘This is the worst place in the world’: US faith leaders meet victims of Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen

  American faith leaders met with representatives of Nigerian communities devastated by Boko Haram and Fulani tribesmen as well as key figures within the Buhari administration as part of a fact-finding mission to investigate reports of escalating insecurity in the West African country.

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  Feb 27, 2020

  Pakistani Christians attacked over church construction, 1 left partially paralyzed

  A Pakistani Christian man is partially paralyzed after a mob of Muslim men shot two Christians and attacked another with an ax for constructing a church in a village in Punjab province. 

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  Feb 26, 2020

  Trump praises India's Modi for working to improve religious freedom as rampant persecution rages on

  President Trump wrapped up his trip to India this week by praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday, saying that they have worked hard to improve religious freedom conditions in the country.

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  Feb 26, 2020

  Asia Bibi planning to seek asylum in France: 'I am in exile forever'

  Pakistani Christian mother Asia Bibi, who spent nearly a decade on death row over trumped-up blasphemy charges before she was released and granted asylum in Canada last year, says she plans to apply for political asylum in France. 

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  Feb 26, 2020

  5 things Democratic Party must do to win back pro-life voters in 2020

  Pro-life Democratic voters are warning the party and leading candidates that they must moderate their positions on abortion if they hope to have any chance of regaining ground lost to Republicans in recent years. 

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  Feb 25, 2020

  Catholics who accept all of the church's teachings are most likely to vote for Trump: poll

  Catholic support for President Donald Trump has increased but there’s a disconnect between Catholics who agree with all of the Church’s teachings and those who don’t. 

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  Feb 25, 2020

  University bans student from handing out Christian pamphlets to LGBT studies class

  The University of Louisville in Kentucky is barring an unnamed Christian student who passed out literature about the Bible’s teachings on homosexuality from having any more contact with students or a professor associated with an LGBT studies course.