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Chen Guancheng, left, and his wife, Yuan Weijing, arrive at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University.

NYU rejects Chinese dissident's accusations

China | Officials at New York University (NYU) denied claims by blind Chinese dissident Chen Guancheng that the school is ousting him because of pressure from the Chinese government. NYU officials confirmed that Chen’s…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/06/nyu_rejects_chinese_dissidents_accusations]

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Portraits of grace

2013 Books Issue |  Three biographies testifying to God’s work in mankind

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Chinese President Xi Jinping

East meets West

China |  Will President Obama remember China’s oppressed during his weekend meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping?

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Jimmy Hodges helps Chad Heltcel and his wife Cassidi salvage the wreckage of their family home.

Storm troopers

Disaster relief |  Local churches and other Christian organizations help lead efforts to respond to Oklahoma’s deadly twisters

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Children line up in January 2012 to receive a meal at a food distribution center in Mogadishu for those displaced by the 2011 famine or war.

Hunger wars

Somalia |  A new study shows Somalia’s recent famine killed more than a quarter-million people. Will Somali extremists continue to starve a generation of their own…

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BOSTON STRONG: The Urban Shield drill in November 2012.
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Terror-fighting tangle

Terrorism |  The effort to protect Americans is tied up in a morass of competing agencies, bureaucratic complexity, and special interests

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An eight-story building with thousands of garment factory workers collapsed near Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka.
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Good neighbor policy

Bangladesh |  Disasters raise questions for average citizens: Are we prepared to help save lives?

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SEEKING SANCTUARY: Daniel, Joshua, Christian, Lydia, Uwe, Damaris, Hannelore, and Sarah Romeike (from left).
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Schools of thought

Homeschooling |  The German government harasses and persecutes that country’s few homeschoolers. A German homeschooling family’s fight for asylum in the United States will…

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CARNAGE: People react as a second explosion goes off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
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Heartbreak Hill

Terrorism |  When explosions hit the Boston Marathon, people at the scene and Boston residents swung into action

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A woman receives assistance following Monday's bomb blasts near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Homegrown fears realized

Terrorism |  Boston’s twin bombings are a stark reminder that the homeland remains vulnerable

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Amirizadeh (left) and Rostampour
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Finding freedom

Iran |  Imprisoned in Iran for almost a year, Christians Marziyeh Amirizadeh and Maryam Rostampour now can share their ordeal: ‘In Evin Prison, everything is a…

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UNDER FIRE: Inside the Coptic Orthodox Church burned by unknown arsonists.
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Silent testimony in a region aflame

Libya |  Can a new U.S. roadmap for religious freedom calm the crackdown on believers?

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/silent_testimony_in_a_region_aflame]

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