Persecuted Baha'is face executions in Iran amid refusals to renounce faith
The report details Iran's Baha'i community enduring arrests, property seizures, job dismissals, and a three year wave of killings. It cites 142 hangings and shootings, with executions in Shiraz including 10 women on June 18. Leaders compare the persecutions to historical martyrdom and warn of genocide against Iran's Baha'is.
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Iran
iuz _Kazemsadeh
Yale Univerity
Middle East
Baha’i Naional Assembly
U.S
Ame
Khomeini
Ival
Kazemsadeh
Khabar-i-Junub
Earth
U.S. Congress
Canada
West Germany
Great Britain
Australia
Switzerland
Luxembourg
United Nations Commission On Human Rights
Amnesty International
Reagan
Evangelist Aril Edvardsen visits Decorah Crusade events
The Rev. Aril Edvardsen, a prominent Norwegian evangelist, preaches at the Christian Life Center with services tonight at 8 and Sunday at 1 30, 10 30 and 8. Vacation Bible school runs Monday through Friday at Peace Christian Reformed Church from 9 to 1 30. Cedar Hills hosts Hurry on Down musical at 9:30 Sunday.
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Decorah
Aril Edvardsen
Norway
Scandinavia
Christian Life Center
Highway 9 West
Edvardsen
Vacation Bible School
Peace Christian Reformed Church
C Ave. NE
Cedar Hills Community
Armah church reunion and historic site notes
The Armah church reunion is set for Sunday August 14 on church grounds with registration before the noon mass followed by a cooperative dinner and business meeting. The Immaculate Conception Church of Armah built 1875 near North English and Millersburg closed in 1960 but cemetery and church upkeep continues. A satellite concert by Phil Keaggy airs tonight at 7 p.m. from Dallas via Victory Christian Center in Marion, after performances in Cedar Rapids.
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Armah Church
North English
Millersburg
Armah
Victory Christian Center
10Th St
Marion
Phil Keaggy
Word of Faith World Outreach Center
Dallas
Texas
Keaggy
Cedar Rapids
Orthodox rabbis rethink ties with Reform groups over birth rules
The Rabbinical Council of America surveys Orthodox rabbinic attitudes after Reform Judaism allowed a child to be Jewish if the father is Jewish and the mother is not. Council leader Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman says maintaining unity may be endangered. Sociologist Kaif Waxman is consulting on the study.
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New York
Reform Judaism
Reform Rbbis
Cdy
Rabbinical Council Ofmerica
Eform
Gilbert Klap
Council
Kaim Waxman
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Teen asks Bible scholar for favorite character at church
In Gettysburg Pennsylvania an Old Testament scholar from the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia tells a teen his favorite biblical figure is Jacob. He cites Jacob as a scoundrel yet notes God's promises endure despite flaws.
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Gettysburg
Lutheran Church In America
Gatherig
Oster McCurley
McCurley
Lutheran Heological Seminary
Philadelhia
Jacob
God
Religion News Deadline Notice
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Sligion
Enis
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