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  Baptist report highlights gap between fashion brands’ commitments and workers’ rights

  A major Baptist report on global fashion supply chains has highlighted a persistent gap between corporate commitments and progress for garment workers, finding that 87 percent of assessed companies could not demonstrate that workers in any of their facilities were paid a living wage.

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  Evangelical alliance leaders, Costa Rican lawmakers discuss Christian influence on public policy

  Presidents of evangelical alliances from across Ibero-America met with Christian lawmakers at Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly on Wednesday (Oct. 14) to discuss how evangelicals can shape public policy without bringing partisan politics into the pulpit.

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  Evangelical, Catholic leaders urge US Congress to widen legal immigration paths in joint statement

  The heads of the main U.S. evangelical umbrella body and the Catholic bishops' migration committee have issued a joint statement urging Congress to open legal pathways for longtime immigrant residents, while affirming that the government has a duty to secure the country's borders.

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  'It is Jesus Christ who has me here,' Costa Rica's president tells evangelical leaders

  Costa Rican President Laura Fernández Delgado told evangelical leaders from across Latin America on Monday that she placed her country "at the feet of Jesus Christ" when she took office and that God brought her to the presidency to fight organized crime.

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  Costa Rica’s president addresses opening of Latin Evangelical Alliance assembly

  Costa Rican President Laura Fernández Delgado told evangelical leaders from 22 countries on Monday that she would not be ashamed to speak about the gospel while in office, as the Latin Evangelical Alliance opened its 13th General Assembly in San José.

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  Evangelical group welcomes plan to halt MAiD for mental illness, warns on advance requests

  The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) has welcomed the federal government’s pledge to permanently stop the planned expansion of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to people whose only condition is mental illness.

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  India locks down capital, detains Gen Z protest leaders over voter roll dispute

  Delhi Police detained the founder and two senior leaders of a Gen Z protest movement aboard their plane Saturday, Oct. 10, as authorities shut dozens of metro stations, canceled more than 250 trains and deployed tens of thousands of officers to keep protesters away from the capital’s designated protest ground.

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