Seven People Were Taken in Wenzhou on August 5. The Only Record That It Happened Is a Prayer Account.
Seventeen days. No charge, no location, no lawyer. Two watchdogs, one prayer account, and nothing at all from the state.
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Everyone Will Call This the ICE at Churches Ruling. The Government Lost It in an Argument It Never Made.
The Fourth Circuit affirmed on Tuesday. DHS never argued a compelling interest in the district court, so it forfeited strict scrutiny on appeal.
They Opened the Doors of People Who Were Sleeping. Binper Buried Twenty Four Before Dark.
Armed men went house to house through a sleeping village in Mangu. Four different tolls were in circulation before the grave was closed.
Eight Churches in Europe Burned Last Month. The Hardest Question Is Not Who Lit Them.
Forty anti-Christian incidents across Europe in July. The number is not the argument. The missing category behind it is.
He Says the Islamic State Held Him in Mali. Nobody Agrees on How He Got Out.
Kevin Rideout is free after nine months in the Sahel. Four accounts of how that happened are now public, and one of them involves a ransom.
I Have Clicked Through Every Training My Employer Ever Sent Me. Valerie Kloosterman Read Hers.
She had been there seventeen years. The training asked her to agree to something. Five years later it ended in a settlement, and the part worth noticing is how quiet the decision was.
The Lawyer Asking the Supreme Court to Overrule Locke v. Davey Is the Student Who Lost It
Virginia pays for a degree in music. It will not pay for a degree in music and worship. On Tuesday the student who lost that argument in 2004 filed the brief asking the Supreme Court to reconsider.