Heavy monsoon rains over the weekend triggered landslides and floods, killing at least 173 people in northern India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. Millions of others have been displaced. The rains have damaged bridges and washed away thousands of homes. Soldiers and rescue workers in northern India pulled 46 bodies from buses covered by rocks and mud. Authorities said about 200,000 people took refuge in emergency camps in the state of Assam, northeastern India.
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Nepali court clears Christians in proselytizing case
Persecution | Ruling could help determine how government plans to interpret evangelism ban
by Julia A. Seymour
Posted 12/12/16, 10:42 am
A district court in Nepal dropped a case last week against eight Christians who distributed a comic book telling the story of Jesus.
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International | Images of a 5-year-old survivor of a Syrian government airstrike go viral
by Mindy Belz
Posted 8/19/16, 02:28 pm
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Nepali court clears Christians in proselytizing case
Persecution | Ruling could help determine how government plans to interpret evangelism ban