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Chinese authorities demolish megachurch, arrest pastors https://t.co/St4UfIGiCx — Disrn (@DisrnNews) October 20, 2019

2. About China’s Organ Harvesting

3. A New York Times reporter on ISIS and the fall of Mosul

4. Coptic Christians in Egypt fear martyrs are being forgotten


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My friends have a home with a lovely view of this monastery—to which they still cannot return. https://t.co/d6Kmk7FNso — lumasimms (@lumasimmsEPPC) October 21, 2019

6. Catholic priest murdered in Kenya, latest in string of killings


7. Robert Nicholson: Hit Turkey Where It Hurts: Help Armenia


8. AP: Syria crisis tests Trump’s global religious freedom vows

9. WSJ: Youth Suicide Rate Increased 56% in Decade, CDC Says

10. Pew: In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace

11. In the Atlantic: All the Pregnancies I Couldn’t Talk About

12. On CNN.com: This may be the secret to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s amazingly long marriage

13. Babylon Bee: Politics Now Nation’s Fastest Growing Religion

14. Meet the Almost-100-Year-Old Priest Who Knew St. Maximilian Kolbe

15. Jeff Jacoby: Amid rising anti-Semitism, the People of the Book rejoice with the Law

PLUS: On NYC and Mother Cabrini

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