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(Worthy News) – Though evangelical Protestants remain the largest faith group in the country, as clashes over their beliefs turn up in the public square, half the country has come to believe evangelicals face discrimination in the US.

A new report from the Pew Research Center reveals that Americans see discrimination on the rise or holding steady across demographic groups, with evangelical Christians and Jews experiencing a significant uptick over the past few years.

Fifty percent of US adults agree that evangelical Christians are subject to discrimination, up from 42 percent in 2016. One in five (18%) say that evangelicals—about a quarter of the population—face “a lot” of discrimination. [ Source: Christianity Today (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – More people globally  — including a majority in the United States — say that they desire to see religion play a more important role in their country, new polling data from the Pew Research Center shows.

This week, Pew released data compiled from years of polling over 30,000 people in 27 countries that asked respondents about diversity, gender equality, and religion in their respective countries.

The random samples were nationally representative for each country with about 1,000 being surveyed per country. [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The Israeli Air Force opened a second squadron of F-35 stealth fighter jets, The Jerusalem Post learned on Thursday.

The squadron will be called “Defenders of the South.”

Built by Lockheed Martin, the jets have an extremely low radar signature allowing the jet to operate undetected deep inside enemy territory as well as evade advanced missile defense systems like the S-300 and S-400 missile defense systems, which have been deployed in countries such as Syria. [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Sri Lankan Christians fear more attacks are coming as the nation is still in mourning over the horrific bombings on Easter Sunday.

At least 253 people were killed and hundreds more were wounded. Thursday the number was decreased from 350 to 253, officials explaining that they initially thought many people had been killed due to unidentifiable body parts.

In two major cities in Sri Lanka it’s very quiet as residents and office workers are staying indoors and shops are closed. There’s concern that more attacks are on the way with the US embassy warning that terrorists could target places of worship again this weekend. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – More than fifty percent of Protestant church attendees have admitted to not engaging in evangelism in the past half a year, according to a recently released report by LifeWay Research.

When asked how many times they shared with somehow “how to become a Christian,” 55 percent of respondents answered zero.

24 percent of respondents said that they had shared how to become a Christian to someone 1-2 times, 12 percent responded 3-5 times, 5 percent said 6-10 times, 1 percent said 11-15 times, and 3 percent reported 16 times or more. [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Four Christians have been arrested in Nepal, including a United States citizen, months after a controversial law criminalizing religious conversion went into effect in the Asian nation.

On Tuesday morning, police in the city of Ghorahi arrested a Christian society leader, an Indian national, a citizen of Colorado and a Nepali interpreter at their hotel for their alleged involvement in religious conversion by “allurement,” according to the NGO Christian Solidarity Worldwide.

The four of them had attended a one-day pastors’ conference that took place Monday in a local church. [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – A major archaeological discovery in Israel raised the question of how to preserve the past without stopping progress towards the future when a modern highway and an ancient town came to a crossroads.

“No one expected it, including the Israel Antiquities Authority,” said Yehuda Govrin, who headed the salvage excavation at Beit Shemesh.

What they found was the biblical town of Beit Shemesh from the time of Isaiah and Hezekiah. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – There’s no doubt that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is a staunch pro-choice Democrat, but the question is whether he’s too close to Planned Parenthood to prosecute undercover pro-life investigators David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt.

Their effort to force Mr. Becerra to recuse himself received a boost Friday when the California Supreme Court ordered the suspension a preliminary hearing scheduled for Monday to consider their petition accusing him and his predecessor, Sen. Kamala Harris, of being motivated by political bias.

Neither Mr. Becerra nor Ms. Harris has made any secret of their Planned Parenthood support. The organization has given thousands in campaign donations to the Democrats, hosting his primary election party and working with her office on a 2016 bill to crack down on hidden-camera probes against health-care providers, including Planned Parenthood. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – President Trump is irate over reports of National Guard troops being stopped at gunpoint by Mexican military at the southern border.

In a tweet Wednesday, the president said the draw of weapons was probably a “diversionary tactic for drug smugglers” and it “better not happen again.”

The president went further stating, “we are now sending armed soldiers to the border.”

Mexico’s Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border. Better not happen again! We are now sending ARMED SOLDIERS to the Border. Mexico is not doing nearly enough in apprehending & returning!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 24, 2019

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by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Two separate attacks in Cameroon’s Far North region, both by Boko Haram, have claimed the lives of 18 people.

Islamic militants made their way into the Madagascar neighborhood of Blangoua Monday evening, taking the lives of seven people, following an attack two weeks ago in Tchakamari area that left eleven “charred” bodies in its wake, according to security services.

The Far North of Cameroon, which borders Nigeria, has seen terrorist activity in recent months as the conflict in Nigeria between Islamic State West Africa, or Boko Haram, and the Christian population has spilled over the border into Cameroon, Nigeria’s southern neighbor.

In November a woman tried to blow herself up in Amchide, injuring 29 people.

It was not the first incursion of the West African branch of IS into the majority Christian nation, where it is estimated that 53% of the population identifies as either Catholic or Protestant. Cameroonian security forces have claimed that 2,500 people were slaughtered by Boko Haram in their country between 2014 and 2017.

As of yet, Cameroon is absent from Open Doors U.S.A.’s World Watch List 2019.

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