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The Red Lighthouse

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Six Intelligence Agents Spent a Sunday Inside St. Peter's Compound So the Families Would Get Used to Them. On July 10 the UN Asked Tehran Eight Questions About It. Sixty Days Later the Answer Is a Guard at the Gate.

Two UN rapporteurs wrote to Tehran on July 10 about St. Peter's: twenty families given two weeks to leave, pastors threatened with arrest, six intelligence agents on site so residents would get used to them. Iran let sixty days pass. The letter is public, and the church is shut and guarded.

Everyone Will Call the Eighty One Religious Plaintiffs Suing Over Immigration the Religious Left. Read Paragraph Nine of the Mennonite Complaint. It Cites Hobby Lobby, and What You Do With That Is the Test of Whether You Ever Believed in RFRA.

Everyone Will Call the Eighty One Religious Plaintiffs Suing Over Immigration the Religious Left. Read Paragraph Nine of the Mennonite Complaint. It Cites Hobby Lobby, and What You Do With That Is the Test of Whether You Ever Believed in RFRA.

Religion News Service counts eighty one religious plaintiffs in the immigration lawsuits, most pleading RFRA. Paragraph nine of the Mennonite Church USA complaint cites Hobby Lobby. The Advocate reads it and asks both sides the same question.

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Eighty Prisoners of War Broke Out of a Resistance Jail in Tedim on Sunday Night. On Monday Afternoon the Assistant Pastor of Lamzang Was Shot Three Times at the Kapte Bridge. His Convention's Letter Quoted Matthew 25:21 and Did Not Say How He Died.

Dal Thawn Tuang, assistant pastor of Lamzang Baptist Church in Chin State, was shot three times at the Kapte bridge on September 14. The institute that confirmed his death says the military killed him. The Burmese press says escaped prisoners of war did.

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The Prayer Board, week of September 20

Post a request. Pray for someone else's. Members only, first names, one request per comment.

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I Have Initialed Boxes I Did Not Read to Get Something I Wanted. Oregon Asked a Widow With Five Children to Initial One She Did Not Believe Before It Would Let Her Love a Sixth. On September 9 the State Signed Instead. Read Paragraph Five.

Oregon told a widowed mother of five she could adopt no child unless she agreed to words she did not believe. On September 9 the state signed a two page order. Paragraph five is the part worth reading.

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They Waited for the Bus Door to Open at Dungus Junction. Nine Died on the Road to Jos, Four More Are Named in Mangu, and the Conductor, Four Days Into the Job, Hid While They Emptied His Pockets.

Nine died when gunmen fired on a bus at Dungus Junction, Kuru, on Sunday night. Four more are named in Mangu. The conductor, four days into the job, hid while they took his phone.

Everyone Will Call This the Graham Family's Ambassador. Read the Statute. The Chair Has Been Empty for Twenty Months, Xi Lands in Eight Days, and the Job Was Never to Free Prisoners. It Was to Make Sure Someone in the Room Asks.

Everyone Will Call This the Graham Family's Ambassador. Read the Statute. The Chair Has Been Empty for Twenty Months, Xi Lands in Eight Days, and the Job Was Never to Free Prisoners. It Was to Make Sure Someone in the Room Asks.

Cissie Graham Lynch is nominated to an office empty since January 2025. The statute says what it can and cannot do, and Xi Jinping arrives before any vote.