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• 40 Muslims armed with machetes and clubs attack church in Uganda during service

  
  Values Voter News — Authority: 489
  From the Christian Telegraph... Muslims attack Christian worship service in Uganda According to a November 10 report from Compass Direct, approximately 40 Muslims armed with machetes and clubs attacked the World Possessors Church International in Namasuba, just outside the capital city of Kampala, Uganda, on ...
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• Chapel of St John, Triang : The struggle for the land to be given to the church must continue - although the threat to demolish is on hold now..

  
  CHARLES HECTOR — Authority: 129
  I have received many queries about the 83 year old Chapel of St John, Triang which had come under threat of being destroyed. Well, the latest news is that apparently the State government has decided not to do anything for the moment. Hence, the threat to demolish is no more there at the moment. But, does ...
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• Christian Presence in Chechnya Eliminated

  
  2 Worlds Collide — Authority: 416
  The North Caucasus region in Russia, located between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, are being affected greatly by a counterinsurgency forwarded by Islamic jihadists.  The Islamists, backed by the Saudi dominated Wahhabists, are fighting under the black flag of the “Caucasus Emirate” and have increased their ...
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• Justifying Discrimination in the Name of Religious Freedom is Not a Good Idea

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 764
  photo: bastique via Flickr Evangelicals like Chuck Colson, Roman Catholics like Archbishop Donald Wuerl, and the other religious leaders who signed the “ Manhattan Declaration ” don’t seem to understand that justifying discrimination in the name of religious freedom is not a good idea. For example, Wuerl and ...
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• “Americans United Challenges California Community College Prayer Policy In Federal Court”

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 508
  AU press release : "Americans United for Separation of Church and State has filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging official prayers during public ceremonies at a Southern California community college."
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• Manhattan Declaration

  
  GRACE & PEACE — Authority: 118
  From time to time a new and faithful expression of faith is necessary. I am not speaking of a new faith, or of new doctrines, but of the historic Christian faith prophetically applied to current and world events.  Such a statement of faith has recently been produced: The Manhattan Declaration . The Manhattan ...
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• Unitarian Charles Darwin still controversial

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 523
  First there was the news, back in September, that an award winning British film about the British Unitarian, Charles Darwin, was not going to get U.S. distribution rights because it offended people on the religious right. Why would it offend? Because it suggested Darwin might have moved from his Unitarian Christian ...
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• 9th Circuit upholds ordinance regulating church signs, but discrimination issue remains

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 508
  Although we conclude the provision of the ordinance directly regulating Good News’ signs does not of itself violate the First Amendment, the district court did not address Good News’ claim that the ordinance unfairly discriminates among forms of noncommercial speech
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• Islamic nations want treaty to protect faith symbols

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 508
  CBC : "Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery."
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• Robert Knight: Churches Gone Wild

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 508
  Robert Knight writes at Townhall : "Jesus clearly limited Caesar’s reach. But government has a huge appetite for power and does not particularly like limits."
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• HRC Responds to Misleading Claims by Organizations Seeking to Discriminate

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Today 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders released the “Manhattan Declaration” — a document indicating that they will not cooperate with laws that conflict with their beliefs, including those recognizing same-sex couples. The document also references the federal Employment ...
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• Manhattan Declaration Calls on Christians to Stand Strong

  
  Free Christian Press — Authority: 144
  WASHINGTON /Christian News/ — Alliance Defense Fund President, General Counsel, and CEO Alan Sears joined with more than 145 Christian clergy, ministry leaders, and scholars in Washington Friday to sign the “Manhattan Declaration,” a groundbreaking statement calling on Christians to take a stand and decline to ...
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• Gary McCaleb on the Michael Medved Show: Freedom in the Pulpit

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 508
  ADF attorney Gary McCaleb appeared on The Michael Medved Show to discuss the ADF Pulpit Initiative . The MP3 runs just over 32 minutes.
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• Mississippi: District opposes ACLU requests over gang symbols

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 508
  Desoto Times : "The DeSoto County School District has asked a federal judge to reject the ACLU’s request to lift the suspension of a student accused of using gang signs at Olive Branch High School."
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• Archbishop Wuerl: Change language of same-sex “marriage” bill to protect religious freedom

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 508
  EWTN : "In an irenic Washington Post op-ed, Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington called upon city council members to change the language in impending same-sex marriage legislation so that Catholic Charities could continue to offer adoption and foster care services without compromising Catholic moral teaching."
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• ADF president joins with other leaders in signing ‘Manhattan Declaration’

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 508
  Alliance Defense Fund President, General Counsel, and CEO Alan Sears joined with more than 145 Christian clergy, ministry leaders, and scholars in Washington Friday to sign the “Manhattan Declaration,”
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• Sign the Manhattan Declaration Today

  
  Voices Carry — Authority: 421
  At this very moment, high noon at the National Press Club in Washington DC, one-hundred and twenty-five Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical leaders will be holding a press conference on their signing of what is being called " The Manhattan Declaration ."  (I see it as today equivalent of the Barmen Declaration ...
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• Wesley J. Smith: Pulling the plug on the conscience clause

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 508
  First Things : "Tolerance toward dissenters of what might be called the new medicine is quickly eroding. Courts, policymakers, media ­leaders—even the elites of organized medicine—­increasingly assert that patient rights and respect for patients’ choices should trump the consciences of medical professionals. ...
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• University Settles With Woman Fired For Being A Witch

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 508
  Religion Clause Blog : "Yesterdays Lincoln (NE) Journal-Star reports that the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission had found reasonable cause to believe that religious discrimination had occurred. Plaintiff settled for $40,000 . . . "
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• Ban On Transfer of Funds To Iraq Does Not Infringe Charity’s Free Exercise

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 508
  Religion Clause Blog : "In United States v. Islamic American Relief Agency , 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 107541 (WD MO, Nov. 18, 2009), a Missouri federal district court rejected defendants argument that their indictment for illegally transferring funds to Iraq violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act."
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