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(Worthy News) – A petition was filed Thursday in India’s top court challenging the communications blackout and security clampdown in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where people remained holed up in their homes for a fourth day.

State-run All India Radio said security agencies have arrested more than 500 people in the region apparently to prevent any outbreak of violence.

It also reported cross-border firing by Indian and Pakistani troops in the Rajouri sector of the Indian-controlled Kashmir late Wednesday. [ Source: Time (Read More…) ]

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by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – China has introduced a new textbook with Western classics such as Robinson Crusoe, Vanka, and The Little Match Girl, but with every reference to God removed.

The three classics, by Daniel Defoe, Anton Chekhov, and Hans Christian Andersen respectively, mention the discovery of Bibles in a shipwreck, souls going to God after death, and Christ Himself in their original form.

But after redactions from the Chinese Communist government, reports Asia News, the stories now only mention euphemistically that Crusoe found “a few books,” with the soul that once went to God in the Hans Christian Anderson story now becoming a “person [who] leaves this world,” and Christ’s name removed altogether from Vanka.

“[The plan] emphasized that ‘the heart and soul of Christianity’s Sinicization is to Sinicize the Christian theology,’ and even proposing to ‘re-translate the Bible or re-write biblical commentaries,'” the Rev. Bob Fu, a former Chinese house church leader, testified before Congress last year of China’s plan to convert all of Christianity into a servant of the state.

“Sinicization,” or the adaptation of Christianity to Chinese communist culture and its values, according to Fu, includes forcing churches of the state-sanctioned variety to hang pictures of Chairman Mao Zedong and President Xi Jinping on each side of the cross.

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by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Iran on Tuesday declared its intention to further disrupt oil traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, announcing a naval drill to take place with Russia later this year in the disputed waterway.

Speaking at the Iranian foreign ministry, President Hassan Rouhani also addressed the British seizure last month of an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar, which the Iranians, along with Spanish foreign minister Josep Borell, at the time attributed to a US directive.

“A strait for a strait. It can’t be that the Strait of Hormuz is free for you and the Strait of Gibraltar is not free for us,” Rouhani said. “Peace for peace and oil for oil. You cannot say that you won’t allow our oil to be exported.”

The US withdrew from the Iranian nuclear accord in May of last year after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made President Trump privy to a trove of documents stolen by the Mossad from an Iranian nuclear depot in February 2018, which showed the Iranians had no intention of ending their nuclear program.

As a response to the crushing US sanctions on Iranian oil exports that followed, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard damaged Saudi Arabian, Emirati, Norwegian, and Japanese oil tankers in separate incidents in May and June, prompting the US and Britain to begin to disrupt Iranian oil traffic in waterways under their control.

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