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Twenty Christians, including young children, were reportedly still missing Wednesday, June 13, more than two weeks after being detained by Eritrean security forces for allegedly attending a prayer meeting of a banned independent church.

Lebanese Christians, already shaken by several bombings, faced the prospect of civil war Wednesday, June 13, as officials confirmed that a key anti-Syrian legislator and nine others were killed in an explosion in Beirut, apparently from a bomb-rigged car. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/lebano...s-assassinated/

These days, it appears there's a fine line between making a moral and a political statement. http://www.worthynews.com/news/cbn-com-CBNnews-175734-aspx/

The highest ranking UN official in Israel has warned that American pressure has "pummelled into submission" the UN's role as an impartial Middle East negotiator in a damning confidential report. http://www.worthynews.com/news/guardian-co...101677,00-html/

A mob of Hindu extremists on Friday (June 8) beat a pastor and tried to set him on fire before parading him naked in the suburbs of Bangalore, capital of Karnataka state. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/india-...parades-pastor/

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III yesterday said that it was only a matter of time and economics before terrorists will be able to purchase nuclear weapons and that the world's law-enforcement community must unite to prevent it. http://www.worthynews.com/news/washtimes-c...4521-9295r-htm/

Senate Republicans blocked a no confidence vote in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday, rejecting a largely symbolic Democratic effort to boot the embattled attorney general from office. http://www.worthynews.com/news/cbn-com-CBNnews-174469-aspx/

US President George W. Bush was confident Monday that the most sweeping overhaul of US immigration laws in two decades will ultimately clear Congress once he gets home from his European tour. http://www.worthynews.com/news/breitbart-c...show_article-1/

The Bush administration cannot legally detain a legal U.S. resident it believes is an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday. http://www.worthynews.com/news/msnbc-msn-com-id-19172214-/

Active Christians in rural areas of India, including pastors and evangelists, faced another potentially dangerous day Monday, June 11, after reports that two Christian workers were killed by suspected militants in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh while elsewhere Hindu extremists threatened to burn alive church leaders. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/india-...stian-violence/

The undoing of the U.S. immigration bill in the Senate last week had many players, but none more effective than angry voters like Monique Thibodeaux, who joined a nationwide campaign to derail it. http://www.worthynews.com/news/iht-com-bin...php-id-6073760/

The words "natural family," "marriage" and "union of a man and a woman" can be punished as "hate speech" in government workplaces, according to a lawsuit that is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. http://www.worthynews.com/news/washingtont...1445-6957r-htm/

A tense calm returned Saturday, June 9, to the Galas district of the Philippines' Quezon City after a seminarian was stabbed to death there by a lone assailant, police said.

Three Indonesian women who were serving a prison sentence for including Muslim children in a church program in West Java, Indonesia, were released early Friday, June 8, amid international pressure, BosNewsLife learned.

The immigration "grand bargain" imploded in the Senate last night under a Republican-led filibuster, with the bill under attack from both sides and collapsing of its own weight. http://www.worthynews.com/news/washtimes-c...4017-6446r-htm/

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently relayed a secret message to Syrian President Bashar Assad saying Israel knew what the price of peace was and would be willing to pay it, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday. http://www.worthynews.com/news/ynetnews-co...410174,00-html/

Russian President Vladimir Putin, bitterly opposed to a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe, told President Bush on Thursday that Moscow would drop its objections if the system were installed in Azerbaijan. http://www.worthynews.com/news/foxnews-com...278817,00-html/

Republican leaders yesterday threatened a "total shutdown" of Senate business if Democrats keep holding up President Bush's appointments to the federal bench. http://www.worthynews.com/news/washtimes-c...3730-6432r-htm/

Police in Vietnam publicly torture and kill Degar Montagnard Christians in the country's Central Highlands as a warning to house churches to stop their activities, a major advocacy group alleged Wednesday, June 6. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/vietna...house-churches/

Televised attacks on Christian workers and a spurt in persecution in various parts of the country point to a renewed attempt to win support for Hindu nationalistic goals, Christians say. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/india-...r-hindu-nation/

More than 4 million Iraqis have now been displaced by violence in the country, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday, warning that the figure will continue to rise. http://www.worthynews.com/news/msnbc-msn-com-id-19055852-/

Political analysts are picking apart Tuesday night's Republican debate focusing on which candidates stood out on issues from their stand on the Iraq War to immigration, creation and many other issues close to the hearts of voters. http://www.worthynews.com/news/cbn-com-CBNnews-171286-aspx/

A broad bipartisan immigration deal was threatened Tuesday as the Senate prepared to vote on a Republican proposal to make it harder for millions of illegal immigrants to qualify for green cards. http://www.worthynews.com/news/cbn-com-CBNnews-171153-aspx/

A pastor and two associates from Mt. Carmel Theological College in Kandy, Sri Lanka, were arrested on May 27 and charged with destroying Buddhist statues. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/sri-la...ion-of-statues/

Iraqi Christians are mourning the deaths of a Catholic priest and his three assistants who were gunned down by Islamic militants over the weekend, shortly after another Christian couple working A German woman in Dusseldorf blocked the entrance to an underground station when she mistook it for a subterranean car park, police said on Wednesday. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/iraqi-...pe-6705323-stm/