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  Christians among minorities killed, abducted in three-month period in Syria, report says

  Christians and other minorities are at heightened risk of being killed or abducted under the Syrian Transitional Government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, according to a report by advocacy and aid group Christian Solidarity International (CSI).

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  Palestinian Christian mother and daughter killed in Israeli strike on Gaza City building

  Two Palestinian Christian women, a mother and her daughter, were killed early Saturday when an Israeli airstrike hit the apartment building in Gaza City where they were living, church leaders said.

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  Report highlights role of short-term trips, church apprenticeships in long-term mission

  Short-term mission placements and church apprenticeships can help prepare people for long-term gospel ministry, according to a report published by mission agency Crosslinks.

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  Conflict, surveillance, disunity emerging as new religious freedom challenges, advocates say

  Religious freedom advocates told a gathering in Texas that armed conflict and state surveillance are undermining the methods Christians have used to defend persecuted believers. They said a divided global church is poorly placed to respond.

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  Archaeologists uncover Second Temple-era Jewish settlement from time of Jesus

  Archaeologists in southern Israel have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown Jewish settlement dating to the era of Jesus and the early church, highlighted by the successful extraction of an intact 2,000-year-old ritual purification bath (mikveh) weighing 25 tons.

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  Global evangelical body presses Israel at UN to stop settler violence in West Bank

  The World Evangelical Alliance urged Israel on Tuesday to rein in settler violence and halt settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, telling the U.N. Human Rights Council it was particularly concerned about Taybeh, which the group described as the territory's last predominantly Christian village.

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  Hidden garden found beneath Jerusalem church matches gospel account of Jesus’ tomb

  Excavations beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have revealed an ancient garden and burial landscape that archaeologists say is consistent with the description of Jesus’ burial site in the Gospel of John.

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