Ten Aid Workers Were Taken in the Nuba Mountains. I Went Looking for Their Religion Before I Went Looking for Their Names.
Ten names, two sources that disagree, and one woman held five months. The story would not take the shape I wanted.
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I Have Prayed for Iran Christians for Years. A Couple on a Canadian Island Went and Made a Bed for One.
The bill named after her never got a vote. A full quota, a spare room and two people who kept waiting did the work instead.
They Buried Four of the Forty Seven on Sunday. The UN Has Now Said Exactly Where the Other Forty Three Died.
The UN human rights office has now reconstructed the Kenscoff massacre: thirteen killed fleeing, twenty two executed in a church courtyard, twelve behind the church.
The Government Has Now Answered for the Agent Inside the Church. Its Answer Is a Floor Plan.
The government says sending an undercover agent into a protected church broke no order, because he was in the gymnasium and not the sanctuary. A judge has told it to explain.
He Got Clean, Then Spent Years Helping Other People Get Clean. Kunming Will Try Him on September 16 for Holding the Meetings.
Three members of a thirty person house church in Kunming have been held since April 12. A court has now set the pretrial conference for September 2 and the trial for September 16.
Fifty Nigerian Clerics Signed a Promise About Their Own Mouths. I Decided It Was Worthless Before I Read What Was In It.
More than fifty Christian and Muslim leaders signed an accord in Abuja committing to stop the hate speech. I dismissed it before I read it.
They Charged Him Under a Law That Did Not Exist Yet. It Takes Effect on Friday.
Pune police charged Pankaj Devnoor under the Maharashtra anti-conversion law on August 7. The law does not take effect until August 28.