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(Worthy News) – A member of a black church in Mississippi has pleaded guilty to burning the church, which was also spray painted with “Vote Trump,” a week before the 2016 presidential election.

The Delta Democrat-Times reported Thursday that 47-year-old Andrew McClinton pleaded guilty to arson. His sentencing is set for late April.

Investigators said McClinton, who is African-American, belonged to the church that was vandalized and burned, Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville. [ Source: US News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill on Thursday that would end the collection of Americans’ phone records by the National Security Agency in an effort to undo a widely criticized security measure passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

“The NSA’s sprawling phone records dragnet was born in secrecy, defended with lies and never stopped a single terrorist attack,” said Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, one of the bill’s main sponsors.

He and three other lawmakers introduced their bill to overhaul the Patriot Act in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, calling the data collection programme “unconstitutional.” [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The House passed a resolution formally condemning the Trump administration’s transgender military ban in a 238-185 vote on Thursday.

Five Republicans joined every Democrat in backing the measure, which was spearheaded by Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.), who serves as the chair of the Equality Caucus’s Transgender Equality Task Force.

The resolution’s passage comes shortly after the administration announced that the requirement for members of the military to serve as the gender they were assigned at birth would be implemented next month, effectively undoing the Obama administration’s policy from June 2016. [ SourceL The Hill (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – A federal judge has struck down a rule letting individuals and small businesses pool together to buy health insurance, threatening a program encouraged by the Trump administration that was created as an escape hatch from high Obamacare premiums.

The ruling, issued Thursday by U.S. District Judge John Bates, a President George W. Bush appointee, came after 11 states and the District of Columbia sued saying that the rules violated Obamacare and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA.

Bates agreed, concluding in his opinion that the rule, issued by the Department of Labor, was “clearly an end-run around” Obamacare. He also stated the Trump administration didn’t have the authority under ERISA to change the rules. [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – As the Israeli military continued its preparations for a possible outbreak of violence at protests along the Gaza border planned for Saturday, an Egyptian delegation reportedly told Hamas that any mistake it makes could lead to war.

The Israeli military said Thursday it is readying for protests along the Gaza border planned for Saturday, Palestinians’ Land Day, and a possible outbreak of violence. Land Day also marks a year since the start of weekly violent protests along the Israel-Gaza border, known as the March of Return, which at times have escalated into exchanges of fire between Israel and Palestinian terror groups in the coastal enclave, most recently earlier this week.

An Egyptian military intelligence delegation has been working to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ahead of the mass protest, amid fears that clashes along the border could snowball into a larger conflagration. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]

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by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – A Pakistani Christian mother and wife was abducted on February 25th and forced into marriage with a Muslim and was only restored to her family after her husband called the police and threatened to light himself on fire.

Naveed and Saima Iqbal, who live in New Iqbal Town in Islamabad, await a decision by a Pakistani court to nullify her marriage to Muhammad Khalid Sati, a Muslim man who was arrested on March 5th.

“I will fight until I get justice,” said Mr. Iqbal, who has been married to his wife for 15 years and has appealed to Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, as well as the Chief Justice about the legitimacy of a marriage ratified without his or his wife’s consent.

Often used as a tool for converting Christian and Hindu women under the auspices of Islamic law, forced marriage remains a problem in Pakistan, where an estimated 700 Christian women are kidnapped and coerced into marrying Muslim men every year, according to a 2014 report from the Movement for Solidarity and Peace in Pakistan.

Between 3,000 to 4,000 Pakistani believers have fled conditions in their home country, which has the highest rating for violence against believers in Open Doors U.S.A.’s score system for persecution, and now await refugee status from the UN in neighboring Thailand.

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(Worthy News) – Republicans in Congress are giving President Trump the cold shoulder as he pushes them into another risky political battle to replace Obamacare, insisting they won’t act until the White House delivers a detailed proposal.

The Trump administration is pursuing a federal lawsuit that could invalidate the Affordable Care Act signed by former President Barack Obama nine years ago, removing popular coverage protections for Americans with pre-existing medical conditions. Fearing a voter backlash, Republicans who for years championed repealing the law are balking at the president’s latest attempt to fulfill a 2016 campaign promise, believing the window for success has closed.

The GOP would much prefer to keep the spotlight on Democratic plans to abolish private insurance and put healthcare under government control. [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – President Trump is taking an unprecedented step to protect America’s electrical grid with a new executive order to prevent electromagnetic pulse attacks (EMP).

On Tuesday, the president signed the order directing all federal agencies to identify threats posed by EMPs, which experts say could be potentially dangerous to the US electric grid and other infrastructure systems. Trump’s directive orders the government agencies to find ways to guard against electromagnetic attacks.

The White House said the order is the first even to “establish a comprehensive policy to improve resilience to EMPs.” [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Britain’s Parliament on Wednesday turned down multiple alternatives to the government’s twice-rejected deal for leaving the European Union, leaving the future of Brexit more uncertain than ever.

The House of Commons took over Brexit from Prime Minister Theresa May, who had failed to secure approval of a deal.

Lawmakers began debate Wednesday with 16 separate plans. Negotiators reduced that number to eight, which were brought to votes. All were rejected. [ Source: VOA News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The story of Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director turned pro-life advocate, is powerfully portrayed in the upcoming film “Unplanned,” a story birthed by thousands of hours of fervent prayer.

Shawn Carney is the man behind many those prayers. He heads the 40 Days for Life campaign that began in Texas in the fall of 2004. The organization holds continuous, round-the-clock 40-day prayer campaigns every fall and during Lent. As intercessors, they peacefully pray outside abortion clinics, petitioning God to intervene and save the lives of the unborn children and their mothers.

In just 15 years, 40 Days for Life has become a global movement with hundreds of thousands of volunteer intercessors who pray and keep vigil outside Planned Parenthood clinics just like the one where Johnson once worked, which was eventually shut down. [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

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