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  Six in 10 Christian secondary students in Korea report clash between school and church teaching

  About six in 10 Christian middle and high school students in South Korea say they have encountered contradictions between what they are taught in the classroom and what they hear at church, according to survey findings released by the Pastoral Data Research Institute in South Korea.

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  Attorneys train to implement new child marriage law in Punjab, Pakistan

  Christian lawyers from across Punjab Province recently received specialized training for cases of child marriage, abduction and forced religious conversion in order to strengthen implementation of the province’s amended child marriage law.

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  Ruling in Pakistan to grant custody of Christian girl to Muslim condemned

  Christian rights advocates on Saturday (Aug. 29) condemned a Pakistani court’s decision to give custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to a Muslim accused of abducting, forcibly converting and marrying her.

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  Nationalism of two kinds threatens Sri Lanka’s Christians

  For decades, religious persecution in Sri Lanka was framed mainly as Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist campaigns against Christians and Muslims, but a growing body of research points to a less-examined front: Hindu nationalist or Hindutva-style movements among Sri Lankan Tamils in the northern and eastern provinces drawing ideological and organizational support from India’s Hindu right.

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  Christian nurse hailed as hero in Pakistan after saving infant from deadly hospital fire

  A Christian nurse who risked her life to rescue an infant from a deadly fire at a government hospital in Pakistan’s federal capital has been hailed as a hero across the country after CCTV footage of the rescue went viral on social media.

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  U.S. lawmakers urge protection for Christian girl in Pakistan

  Members of the U.S. Congress have urged the Pakistani government to take steps to protect an 18-year-old Christian woman who her family says was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam.

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  Church in Indonesia told to halt use of building

  Muslim residents of a village in East Java Province, Indonesia have pressured officials into halting a church’s use of its building, claiming worship services there could cause social tension, sources said.

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