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2 days ago | 
baptistpress.com | Chris Doyle |Timothy Cockes |Yonat Shimron |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): International Mission BoardFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: People aren’t lining up to be missionaries in Ukraine right now, as Lamar Schubert has discovered. He and his wife Aubrey work with Slavic people and Eastern European churches, but they had to evacuate Ukraine when war began in February 2022.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Bob Smietana |Chris Doyle |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): Discipleship, FamilyFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: (RNS) — Theologians, preachers and best-selling authors have long tried to explain why bad things happen to good people. But there’s a second question that doesn’t get as much attention. What happens when a good person does something that seems unforgivable?
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi |Chris Doyle
In October 2023, the Law and Political Economy project at the prestigious Yale Law School (YLS), one of the most influential and respected academic and legal institutions in the country, brought on a young Iranian Muslim scholar of international law to become deputy director of the team. Then last week, that deputy director, Helyeh Doutaghi, was barred from campus altogether.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Chris Doyle |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode |Tobin Perry
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule while promising to protect the rights of all Syrians for five years during a transitional phase. The nation’s interim rulers have struggled to exert their authority across much of Syria since the Islamist former insurgent group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, led a lightning insurgency that overthrew longtime President Bashar Assad in December.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
arabnews.com | Chris Doyle
Justice beginning to follow Israelis around the world Short Urlhttps://arab.news/49bsj A Brazilian judge this month ordered the police to mount an investigation into an Israeli soldier who was on holiday in the country. This followed a legal application from the Hind Rajab Foundation, a group named after a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza. The Israeli authorities were compelled to help this Israeli soldier flee Brazil.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
baptistpress.com | Chris Doyle |Laura Erlanson |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): National NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday (Jan. 9) for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.S. president typically eschewed.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
arabnews.jp | Chris Doyle
Northern Gaza is no more, at least not as a livable, populated area. This was not an asteroid strike or a tsunami. But such a fate might have been kinder to the nearly 3 million people who have been compelled to undergo deprivations most of us can barely understand. The Israeli war on Gaza remains pitiless, nowhere more so than the northern part of this enclave. Israeli leaders declared openly what they were going to do, did it and now promise more. They have made clear that this is irreversible.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
kenoshanews.com | Chris Doyle
The Creighton women's volleyball team rolled over its Big East competition this past season, winning the conference crown and cruising into the postseason with a perfect 18-0 record. After extending that run far enough to make the second trip to the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Tournament in program history, the Bluejays are turning to a former Wisconsin player who knows all too well what it feels like to come up just short of a national title shot.
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Dec 28, 2024 | 
madison.com | Chris Doyle
The Creighton women's volleyball team rolled over its Big East competition this past season, winning the conference crown and cruising into the postseason with a perfect 18-0 record. After extending that run far enough to make the second trip to the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Tournament in program history, the Bluejays are turning to a former Wisconsin player who knows all too well what it feels like to come up just short of a national title shot.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
arabnews.com | Chris Doyle
Starmer must view Saudi ties as personal, not just business Short Urlhttps://arab.news/58j9d British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s visit to Saudi Arabia should herald a step forward in the trading and business relationship between the two countries. Even historic relationships need renewal and updating. Fresh commercial ties will be welcomed by both governments, which will no doubt look to build on them. Bilateral trade has reached record levels, topping £17.3 billion ($22 billion).
