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President Bush yesterday signed into law an expansion of the government's power to eavesdrop on foreign terrorism suspects without the need for warrants. http://www.worthynews.com/news/washingtont...108060067-1001/

The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has learned that an Egyptian Christian working in Saudi Arabia as a surgeon has been repeatedly blocked from going home for over two years. The Saudi government has intentionally run him in circles, promising he can leave, then refusing to let him go. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/egypti...hristian-faith/

The House overwhelmingly passed a comprehensive ethics and lobbying reform bill Tuesday, accepting tough rules offered by Democratic leaders to crack down on travel, gift-giving to members, bundling of campaign contributions and earmarks dropped into spending bills. http://www.worthynews.com/news/foxnews-com...291550,00-html/

Over angry Republican objections, the House on Wednesday passed a sweeping expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program, financed with increases in tobacco taxes and cuts in subsidies to private Medicare insurance plans for older Americans. http://www.worthynews.com/news/iht-com-bin...php-id-6950664/

The Bush administration's chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001. The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president previously described. http://www.worthynews.com/news/msnbc-msn-com-id-20044214-/

Democrats may dodge a tax hike on private equity managers and instead look to raise other taxes that would generate greater revenue from a broader swath of the American economy. http://www.worthynews.com/news/nysun-com-article-59551/

Diplomacy is back in fashion in the Middle East as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair tries his hand at bringing Israel and the Palestinians to a two-state solution of peaceful neighbors. http://www.worthynews.com/news/foxnews-com...291330,00-html/

Tensions remained high Monday, July 30, among Christians in the Indian state of Kerala amid reports that the body of a 14-year-old Christian boy was found on the railway track near a Christian school while another Christian was allegedly killed by Hindu militants, missionaries said. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/india-...ssionaries-say/

Crime-fighting beats privacy in public places: Americans, by nearly a 3-to-1 margin, support the increased use of surveillance cameras Tensions remained high Monday, July 30, among Christians in the Indian state of Kerala amid reports that the body of a 14-year-old Christian boy was found on the railway track near a Christian school while another Christian was allegedly killed by Hindu militants, missionaries said. http://www.worthynews.com/news/abcnews-go-...ssionaries-say/

Israel is looking into reports that Russia plans to sell 250 advanced long-range Sukhoi-30 fighter jets to Iran in an unprecedented billion-dollar deal. http://www.worthynews.com/news/jpost-com-s...rticle-Printer/

Crime-fighting beats privacy in public places: Americans, by nearly a 3-to-1 margin, support the increased use of surveillance cameras South Korean aid workers held hostage by Taliban forces in Afghanistan for more than a week are believed to be in poor health, according to a member of their Korean congregation. http://www.worthynews.com/news/abcnews-go-...in-poor-health/

South Korean aid workers held hostage by Taliban forces in Afghanistan for more than a week are believed to be in poor health, according to a member of their Korean congregation. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/afghan...in-poor-health/

Iraq's Kurdish regional high court has reduced jail time for a teenager who fatally stabbed her uncle as he beat her for converting to Christianity and "shaming" the family by working in public. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/iraq-c...urder-sentence/

Chiapas state officials arrested 14 "traditionalist Catholics" following the destruction on Sunday (July 22) of an evangelical church in a community of San Juan Chamula, near San Cristobal de las Casas, in Mexico’s Chiapas state. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/mexico...another-church/

A key Chinese house church activist in Beijing was free Saturday, July 28, after six months of imprisonment, human rights investigators said. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/china-...hurch-activist/

With one hostage dead, the South Korean government is dispatching a top envoy in a scramble to secure the release of 22 South Korean missionaries. http://www.worthynews.com/news/cbn-com-CBNnews-202328-aspx/

President Nicolas Sarkozy urged the West to trust Arab countries with nuclear technology yesterday as he signed a deal that could see France supplying Libya with a new reactor. http://www.worthynews.com/news/telegraph-c...-site-5-page-0/

Two days after surviving an Israeli attempt on his life, a senior Islamic Jihad commander was killed in Gaza City on Thursday - along with two other terrorists - in an IAF strike on his car. http://www.worthynews.com/news/jpost-com-s...rticle-Printer/

The endorsement by a major city mayor of a document described as "The Declaration of North American Integration" represents a long-term effort by local governments to bypass state and federal governments and work directly with Mexico and Canada to create agreements that integrate the continent below the radar screen, charges an activist. http://www.worthynews.com/news/worldnetdai...TICLE_ID-56838/

Afghan Police on Wednesday, July 25, found the bullet riddled body of one of 23 South Korean Christians held hostage by the Taliban, shortly after the militant movement said it would begin killing them. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/afghan...ans-body-found/

Southern Europe sweltered through some of the year's hottest weather Wednesday as the second major heat wave in a month sparked yet more forest fires and had power officials scrambling to avert a repeat of Tuesday's widespread blackouts in the western Balkans. http://www.worthynews.com/news/msnbc-msn-com-id-19957285-/

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a resolution prohibiting permanent American military bases in Iraq. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, Congress is already on record opposing permanent bases, but Democrats want the Bush administration to clarify its position on the matter. http://www.worthynews.com/news/voanews-com...7-25-voa84-cfm/

Warnings about the threat of terrorism here in the homeland keep coming in. http://www.worthynews.com/news/cbn-com-CBNnews-200164-aspx/

President Bush yesterday signed an executive order requiring the CIA to follow international conventions banning torture when it questions detainees in its secret interrogation program for top captured terrorists. http://www.worthynews.com/news/washingtont...107210057-1002/

The militant Taliban movement threatened on Sunday, July 22, to start killing 23 South Korean evangelical Christians if South Korea did not agree to withdraw its 200 military engineers and medics from Afghanistan, and the Afghan government did not free Taliban prisoners. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/taliba...in-afghanistan/