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Vice President Mike Pence addresses the annual summit of Christians United for Israel on July 17, 2017. Photo courtesy of Christians United for Israel
Need to know: Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Pence roots administration’s support for Israel in faith
The vice president told evangelical supporters of Israel that God had a hand in creating the state of Israel and that Trump would move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Russian Supreme Court upholds ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses
The court’s appeals chamber has upheld the April ruling that halted Jehovah’s Witnesses activities and declared it an extremist organization.
19 voters quash Muslim-run cemetery in Quebec town
Mohamed Kesri, who was overseeing the project, said the outcome of the vote in Saint-Apollinaire could result in the filing of a discrimination complaint at the province’s human rights commission.
Vatican trial dawns for alleged misuse of hospital donations
A 3,230-square-foot apartment belonging to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s second-in-command got a $481,000 face-lift. A trial of past Vatican hospital officials begins today.
This pastor turned his Uber car into a church on wheels
Brooklyn minister Kenneth Drayton has turned his 2009 Mercury Grand Marquis into a mobile church, where he dispenses spiritual advice.
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