A story of violence, forced displacement, and mistaken identity lies behind the killing of eight Christian leaders in Colombia, whose bodies were discovered last week in a mass grave. The victims—a pastor from the Iglesia Cristiana Carismática Cuadrangular (ICCC, the Colombian branch of The Foursquare Church) and seven others affiliated with the ICCC and the Iglesia Evangélica Alianza de Colombia—went missing in April. (Restrepo, Christianity Today)
Read MoreThe complaint, filed July 9 in federal court in Los Angeles, alleges that California's current policies "eviscerate equal athletic opportunities for girls" by forcing them to "compete against boys" in state athletic events. (Gardner, USA Today)
Read MoreAfter releasing their debut album, Floating on Echoes on June 5, the band quickly reached number one on the music streaming app’s daily viral chart in the UK, Sweden and Norway. (Bates, The Telegraph)
Read MoreIn a complaint filed Thursday (July 3) in Los Angeles County Superior Court, lawyers for Lorraine Zielinski said she went to leaders at the megachurch in LA’s Sun Valley neighborhood, where MacArthur is the longtime pastor, seeking counseling for her troubled marriage and was told her conversations would be kept confidential. (Smietana, Religion News Service)
Read MoreThe Trump administration has launched investigations into health systems in what legal experts say is an effort to allow providers to refuse care for transgender patients on religious or moral grounds. (Wells, NPR)
Read MoreWhile men still fill most positions of power across American society, the people who interact with children are largely women. Occupations like pediatrics have switched to mostly being done by women, while those that were always female-dominated, like teaching, have become more so. (Miller, The New York Times)
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