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		<title>Denial of religious freedom on the rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is just one example of the rampant persecution of Christians around the world. According to the American Center for Law and Justice, another Christian Pastor, Reverend Matthias Haghnejad, and eleven members of his church, have been tried in Iran for alleged “crimes against the order,” a charge often levelled as a cover for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&#038;blog=6661900&#038;post=2254&#038;subd=rodbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I mentioned Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, arrested and sentenced to death in Iran for changing his religion and telling Muslims the truth about Jesus.  Support and advocacy for the pastor is growing around the world as people realise the brutal truth about religious freedom in some Muslim-dominated nations. Pastor Nadarkhani is under constant pressure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&#038;blog=6661900&#038;post=2159&#038;subd=rodbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our world can change very fast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Korea’s “Dear Leader” is dead and his son, Kim Jong Un, has replaced him as head of state.  Everything happens, nothing changes. But North Korea is an example of how quickly and totally things do change.  In January 1907, 960 men registered for a week-long Bible study conference in Pyongyang.  Evening sessions attracted up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&#038;blog=6661900&#038;post=1949&#038;subd=rodbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The state of religious freedom in 2011</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remarks on the Release of the International Religious Freedom Report Michael H. Posner, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Suzan Johnson Cook, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom  Washington, D.C., September 13, 2011 [for the Annual Reports see http://www.state.gov/g/drl/irf/] ASSISTANT SECRETARY POSNER: Thank you. Good morning, everybody. As you know, the State Department is mandated by law [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&#038;blog=6661900&#038;post=1619&#038;subd=rodbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islam a threat to Christianity</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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