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Jury selection for two more members of the Followers of Christ Church is set to begin Tuesday, a day after the Oregon Senate passed a bill to crack down on faith-healing parents who don't take their children to the doctor.

Tim and Rebecca Wyland are the third set of parents who belong to the Oregon City church who will stand trial for not getting their child medical attention.

 

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Oregon is on the brink of ending the legal protection for parents who rely on faith healing instead of seeking medical care for their children.

House Bill 2721 was sparked by the heavily publicized deaths of children whose families belong to an Oregon City church, the Followers of Christ.

 

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Pakistani Christians have expressed concerns about renewed kidnappings and abuse of women and girls by Muslims in a country still reeling from the recent assassination of a Christian government minister.

Among those targeted was Sehar Naz, a 24-year-old employee with Pakistan's State Life Insurance Corporation in Punjab province, who was recovering of her injuries Monday, May 23, after she was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a Pakistan Army officer.

 

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Doomsday cult leader Harold Camping who predicted — wrongly — that the end of the world would begin on May 21 revised his prophesy on Monday, saying now that the end is due in October.

He now believes that May 21 had been "an invisible judgment day," of the spiritual variety.

 

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