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• Supporting Chinese Christians

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 564
  From guardian.co.uk : “Before there was persecution. Now there is pressure” said an elder from Beijing’s Shouwang church in private conversation in autumn this year. He was optimistic about the group’s future. Yet by the time the winter snow arrived, the 700-strong congregation was holding its meetings ...
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• Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: ‘Patriarchate is dying’

  
  AOI Observer — Authority: 430
  ’We cannot breathe, the Patriarchate is dying,’ says patriarchASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞISTANBUL – MilliyetThursday, December 24, 2009Following criticism of his controversial statement to a U.S. television network describing his community’s problems, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew says his comments were ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Report: Phanar backtracks on crucifixion remark

  
  AOI Observer — Authority: 430
  From Today’s Zaman (Dec. 24). No statement yet on the Patriarchate’s site.The patriarchate’s statement said: “There are similar idioms in all languages, and they are not evaluated in their narrow meanings but in their broad sense in that language. While answering questions in that regard, the patriarch ...
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• Lawsuit settled over religious discrimination at Mesaba Airlines

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  Minnesota Public Radio : "A federal judge has approved a settlement in a discrimination lawsuit involving Mesaba Airlines. U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank ruled Tuesday that $130,000 can be distributed to five people the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said were victims of discrimination. The lawsuit, ...
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• Oregon: Cascade Locks bridge nativity scene sparks protest

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  Hood River News : "A nativity scene set up at the southern end of the Bridge of the Gods has been challenged by the Freedom from Religion Foundation."
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• The Middle East’s embattled Christians

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  Nina Shea writing at National Review Online : "The lengthy exodus of ancient Christian congregations from the greater Middle East’s last redoubts of religious pluralism is accelerating. Terrorism, conflict, and the rise of intolerant Islamism are to blame, Vatican officials explain. There is a real fear that the ...
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• City threatens to fine Milwaukee man with ten commandments sign in front yard

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  Fox6Now.com (link includes video): "A Milwaukee man is told by the city he has 14 days to remove a sign from his yard, but the man says hes been unfairly targeted. He says its not the sign itself thats the problem. He says some neighbors just dont like what the sign says and called the city to complain."
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• Quebec Announces Attack Against Homophobia

  
  The United Families International Blog — Authority: 131
  If anyone still doubts that the advancement of LGBT “rights” will always come in direct conflict with religious rights, they need only read Quebec’s new policy against homophobia to be fully convinced. The new policy , released earlier this month, outlines a broad new policy and a series of measures designed ...
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• Iraq: Mosul attacks on two Christian churches

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  Assyrian International News Agency : "Two separate bombs struck this morning in Mosul, the Chaldean church of St. George and Syriac Orthodox Church of St. Thomas. The death toll so far is of three dead - a Chaldean Christian and two Muslims - and several wounded. Louis Sako, archbishop of Kirkuk, speaks to AsiaNews of ...
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• France proposes ban on Islamic veils

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  Deutsche Welle : "Frances ruling party, the conservative Union Pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP), says it plans to present a bill to parliament in January, which would ban full Islamic veils in all public places. The bill is to be presented in the first two weeks of next month, just before the conclusions of a French ...
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• Victory for freedom of conscience as University of Minnesota backs away from ideological screening for Ed students

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  FIRE Press Release : "In response to sustained pressure from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities has backed away from its plans to enforce a political litmus test for future teachers."
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• Illinois: Athiest display at state capitol causes furor

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  WBBM780.com : "Republican State Comptroller candidate William J. Kelly says he will remove the atheist display that has been erected in the Capitol rotunda next to the Christian Nativity Scene and Christmas tree."
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• Christmas becomes a battleground in some US towns

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  AFP : "In a town in Virginia where a key Civil War battle was fought in 1861, the battleground this year has moved to the courthouse and the prize being fought over is Christmas . . . In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a manger scene and menorah were removed from the grounds of the Luzerne County courthouse last week ...
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• Dayton resident intervenes against ACLU in Cheatham County

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  Ashland City Times : "June Griffin, a private citizen from Rhea County in East Tennessee, says she has filed an intervention against the ACLU in its recent lawsuit against the Cheatham County School Board over religious activities. In a news release, the Dayton resident said she is asking that the ACLU pay its own ...
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• Atlanta J. Constitution: “Anti-gay preaching goes too far”

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  Mary Sanchez writes at the Atlanta Journal Constitution : "Is it fair to blame Warren for what fanatics do to homosexuals in Uganda, legally or otherwise, simply because he promotes the same Scripture-based view of homosexuality as evil? No, but it’s worth asking whether there isn’t something in that view that ...
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• Gov’t admits churches face Equality Bill legal battles

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  The Christian Institute : "Churches should be lining up lawyers to defend themselves against secular legal challenges under the Equality Bill, a Government equalities minister has admitted. Michael Foster MP, a minister in Harriet Harman’s Equalities Office, was asked whether the Bill would lead to legal action ...
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• MA: Group threatens suit over Chelmsford school’s holiday fundraiser

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  Lowell Sun : "In a letter to Superintendent of Schools Donald Yeoman and Byam School Principal Jane Gilmore, the Liberty Council states that it will file a lawsuit against the school district if changes arent made to Byams annual fundraiser. The council, a nonprofit litigation group dedicated to advancing religious ...
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• Belief and nonbelief are not equal

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  S.E. Cupp writes at the NY Daily News : "I dont need "inclusion" alongside a Nativity scene or a menorah, and its an insult to demand it. My lack of faith doesnt belong in the same category as your faith."
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• Those crazy Kiwis

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 140
  Can you imagine something like this here in North Carolina?
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