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Kudos: State Department Tags Nigeria “Country of Particular Concern”
On Monday, December 7, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Nigeria has been designated a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC). In his comments, Secretary Pompeo revealed that Africa’s...
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Rethinking Christmas Lights, Part One
(Bringing back my article about one of my favorite Christmas symbols – Christmas lights – originally posted in December 2014 with a few additions in December 2020.) In this year of the virus, many...
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Rethinking Christmas Lights, Part Two
(Originally published in December 2014, and revised with a plea and prayer to the God of Israel to shine His brilliant and dazzling light of exposure and radiant glory on us in December 2020, and to...
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A Sign for You
(An updated version of some rambling thoughts about shepherds and angels. See how their collective story reveals the amazing lovingkindness and tender mercy of GOD. This article was first published in...
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Five Things You May Not Know about The Salvation Army and Christmas
(Republished and updated from Christmas 2019, here are five actual things you may not know about The Salvation Army and Christmas.) #1 Every Hallmark Christmas movie you have ever seen (or ever not...
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Nigeria Christmas Sorrow and Hope
Boko Haram and radicalized Fulani killed dozens of Christians in northern and central Nigeria this month. Christmas is just another time for jihadist slaughter. In jihad there is nothing like the...
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In China: Religious Freedom “Doesn’t Exist”
A sobering and informative interview with one of IRD’s directors, William L. Saunders, J.D. Among other things, Bill is the Director of the Program in Human Rights, The Institute for Human Ecology, at...
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Ten Years After Shahbaz Bhatti Slaying, Pakistan Blasphemy Laws Remain
March 2 marks 10 years since the brutal assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian Pakistani activist who fought for religious minorities in the country and against Pakistan’s severe blasphemy laws....
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Sudan’s Churches: Targeted or Caught in Crossfire?
Outbreak of conflict in Sudan between two previously allied factions has left churches and the minority Christian population that they serve in a vulnerable position. Several short-lived ceasefires...
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Human Rights Advocates Urge Biden Administration To Blacklist Nigeria
More than two dozen leading human rights, religious freedom, and Christian advocacy groups are pressing Congress to take more action to persuade the Biden administration to reverse course and...
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