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2022-01-28 08:05:45 Court overturns $135K fine for Christian bakery that refused lesbian wedding cake but upholds ruling

An Oregon appeals court told a state agency Wednesday to reconsider its order for a Christian couple to pay $135,000 in damages for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding on grounds that the state’s actions did “not reflect … neutrality toward religion.”

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2022-01-28 08:04:06 Federal judge halts Noem’s abortion pill restriction rule

A federal judge has temporarily halted a South Dakota rule from taking effect that would have made the state one of the hardest places in the U.S. to get abortion pills.

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2022-01-28 08:02:59 Debt Up $2 Trillion in 1 Year of Biden

When President Joe Biden was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2021, the federal government’s debt stood at $27,751,896,236,414.77. When his first year in office ended on Jan. 20, 2022, it stood at $29,867,021,509,573.92.

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2022-01-28 07:59:29 GDP in fourth quarter of 2021 grew at annualized rate of 6.9%, exceeding expectations

The Commerce Department reported Thursday the country’s gross domestic product increased in the last quarter of 2021 at a 6.9% annualized pace, exceeding expectations.

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2022-01-28 07:58:09 Truckers inspired by Canada begin ‘freedom’ convoys around the world

Truckers around the world are creating their own convoys to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates after being inspired by the Canadian Freedom Convoy, which reportedly has thousands of trucks.

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2022-01-28 07:36:30 US Christian ministries reach out to help vulnerable children in Iran

US Christian ministry Heart4Iran has joined with CBN’s Superbook to conduct an outreach to thousands of desperately vulnerable children in Iran, CBN News reports. Many of these children are from families of Afghan refugees who escaped the Taliban, and many are orphans who lost their parents to COVID-19.

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2022-01-28 07:32:16 Michigan agrees faith-based adoption agencies can refuse to place children with same-sex couples

The state of Michigan has agreed to a proposed settlement with faith-based adoption agencies under which the agencies can refuse to place children with same-sex couples, Church Leaders reports. The settlement was reached after the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Catholic child placement agency on a similar issue.

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2022-01-28 07:30:48 Heart patient taken off transplant waiting-list for refusing COVID-19 vaccine

A 31-year-old man in need of a heart transplant in Boston has been taken off his transplant waiting list because he refused to take the COVID-19 vaccination on ideological and medical grounds, the NY Post reports.

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2022-01-28 07:29:11 Ukrainian National Guard Soldier Kills 5

With public anxiety mounting over a feared Russian invasion, a National Guard conscript in Ukraine shot dead five people in the eastern city of Dnipro, authorities said Thursday.

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2022-01-28 07:28:00 Pakistan: Christian teenager kidnapped, drugged and raped by Muslim in “epidemic” of abductions

A 16-year-old Christian girl in Okara, Pakistan was repeatedly raped after being abducted earlier this month, in what rights group Open Doors USA said is a “silent epidemic of kidnappings of Christian girls” by Muslim men in Pakistan, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

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