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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

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…

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

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?

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…

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

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

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…

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?

OPPOSITE EFFECT: A nurse explains an ultrasound in Xi’an, China.
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Technology fail

China |  Chinese using ultrasounds to spur abortion 

WELCOME: A refugee from Nepal in Clarkston, Ga.
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Cities of refuge

Immigration |  The U.S. immigrant legacy and the welcome refugees receive in the United States offer relevant lessons in the debate over immigration reform and how to pave a…

Southern strategy
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Southern strategy

Religion |  The selection of an Argentine as pope may have been, in part, an attempt to stop evangelical inroads in South America

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