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In a conference call in January, the health-care debate within the Democratic Party played out before former senator John Edwards of North Carolina, who was in search of policy advice for his presidential campaign, and his wife, Elizabeth. http://www.worthynews.com/news/msnbc-msn-com-id-19686903-/

A lesbian couple in New Jersey has filed a complaint against a Methodist-owned campground, claiming illegal discrimination because their request for a civil union ceremony on the property was denied. http://www.worthynews.com/news/cnsnews-com...20070709a-html/

Two leaders of China's growing house church movement were in a labor camp Sunday, July 8, after being sentenced to "one year re-education through labor" in Shandong province on charges related to their Christian activities, BosNewsLife learned. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/china-...-to-labor-camp/

A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site. http://www.worthynews.com/news/telegraph-c...-site-5-page-0/

A satellite image of China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarine is available on the Google Earth Internet site. http://www.worthynews.com/news/worldtribun...hina_07_05-asp/

A meeting between the Quartet, the Palestinian Authority, and Israeli leaders will take place in Egypt mid-July, announced EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana. http://www.worthynews.com/news/dailystareg...ArticleID-8038/

Two members of God's Love Pentecostal Church spent ten days in prison in June after being found guilty of violating laws on religion and "illegal" religious teaching, Protestant sources told a western news service. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/two-pr...-in-uzbekistan/

A young Hroi ethnic minority man who refused to recant his Christian faith reportedly died from injuries received while under official interrogation, BosNewsLife monitored Tuesday, July 3. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/vietna...-faith-reports/

Intervention from high-ranking police officers and government officials has ensured temporary security for a group of Christian converts beaten last week in Nilphamari district, Bangladesh. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/bangla...acked-converts/

Hours after an appeals court shot down a final appeal to keep I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby out of prison pending the appeal of his conviction, President Bush commuted his sentence. http://www.worthynews.com/news/abcnews-go-...int-id-3339302/

A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document. http://www.worthynews.com/news/abcnews-go-...int-id-3336148/

A suspected terror gang, at least two of whom are doctors, were being questioned today after being trapped by their mobile phones. http://www.worthynews.com/news/dailymail-c...e_id-1770-ct-5/

British police defused a bomb they discovered in a parked car in central London on Friday and launched a counter-terrorism investigation. http://www.worthynews.com/news/ynetnews-co...418988,00-html/

Muslim villagers armed with bricks and wooden clubs savagely beat 10 Christian converts in Nilphamari district, Bangladesh, on Tuesday (June 26) and threatened to burn down their homes if they did not leave by today. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/bangla...-to-burn-homes/

Eight Chinese 'house church' leaders from China's Shaanxi and Shandong provinces remained detained and faced the prospect of serving time in labor camps Wednesday, June 27, after a police crackdown on Bible distribution and worship services, rights watchers and fellow Christians said. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/china-...anxi-provinces/

For one man, the release of eight kidnapped Christians from his hometown of Qaraqosh on Friday (June 22) was bittersweet. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/iraq-c...ted-in-baghdad/

Senate advocates of stem cell research that destroys human embryos are trying a new tactic in their ongoing effort to gain federal funding for such experimentation. http://www.worthynews.com/news/bpnews-net-...s-asp-ID-25972/

Seventeen Christians charged under Indonesia’s controversial anti-terror laws still faced an uncertain future Tuesday, June 26, just days after prosecutors demanded 15-to 20-year prison sentences. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/indone...church-attacks/

A young Hroi ethnic minority man who refused to recant his Christian faith died from injuries received while under official interrogation, Compass confirmed as Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet met with U.S. officials. Triet met with President Bush in Washington, D.C. on Friday (June 22) amid some protests over Vietnam’s human rights violations. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/vietna...rture-injuries/

Republican support for the Iraq war is slipping by the day. After four years of combat and more than 3,560 U.S. deaths, two Republican senators previously reluctant to challenge President Bush on the war announced they could no longer support the deployment of 157,000 troops and asked the president to begin bringing them home. http://www.worthynews.com/news/apnews-mywa...D8Q0TSCO0-html/

Describing an attack launched by Muslim residents of a Pakistani village in the province of Punjab, the Christian residents have said that Muslim residents mounted the attack in a bid to force them to cancel an Salvation Army evangelistic convention that was scheduled for June 17th. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/injure...-muslim-attack/

For three decades, reports of rogue CIA operations from plotting Fidel Castro's assassination to collecting files on U.S. citizens have trickled into the public arena. Now the agency is acknowledging its past illegal activities and revealing in startling detail how it crossed the line. http://www.worthynews.com/news/usatoday-co...-scandal_N-htm/

With Democratic and Republican leaders joining ranks, the Senate Tuesday voted to resume debate on a controversial immigration bill that is one of President Bush's top domestic priorities. http://www.worthynews.com/news/usatoday-co...igration_N-htm/

Last night an intelligence source told The Sun: “It is an extremely alarming development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we are in a full on war with Iran -- but nobody has officially declared it. We have hard proof that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have crossed the border to attack us. It is very hard for us to strike back. All we can do is try to defend ourselves. We are badly on the back foot.” http://www.worthynews.com/news/thesun-co-u...290279,00-html/

Muslim extremists demonstrating on June 14 in West Java threatened to close down churches operating in private homes, and a pastor on Sunday (June 17) received an anonymous letter promising to destroy his home if it is "still functioning as a church." http://www.worthynews.com/christian/indone...house-churches/