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A convicted murderer in Kansas has filed a lawsuit this week accusing prison officials of "imposing Christian beliefs" on her and other inmates.

Wheaton College administration has said it is "deeply troubled" as five football players from the Christian school face felony charges for allegedly assaulting another student last year.

September 7, 2017: The Board of Commissioners in Jackson County, Michigan may now open its meetings with prayer, thanks to a decision handed down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday.

September 6, 2017: Children as young as 11 could be permitted to start irreversible hormone treatment to change their biological sex without the permission of a court under an upcoming landmark family court case in Sydney.

August 31, 2017: Harvest Orange County Church Pastor Greg Laurie has said he is "thankful to God for the prayers and abundant support of our community" after two naked men with a fake gun were arrested Wednesday night inside the Irvine, California church.

August 30, 2017: A 5-year-old Christian girl forced to live with a Muslim foster carer has been returned to her family after the case sparked widespread outrage.

August 22, 2017: The wife of a Christian Chinese human rights attorney who admitted to trying to overthrow the Communist Party has slammed his confession as nothing more than a "show" orchestrated by the government.

After 19 long months of investigative detention following his Dec. 16, 2015 arrest, renowned human rights attorney Nguyen Van Dai was finally charged with a crime on July 30.

August 10, 2017: Forty years after his high-profile arrest, David Berkowitz, aka the "Son of Sam" killer, has admitted he was trying to “appease the devil” by murdering six people and wounding seven others.

July 28, 2017: First Liberty Institute, the largest legal organization in the nation dedicated exclusively to defending religious freedom for all Americans, filed a lawsuit against the Air Force Thursday for withholding information regarding a retired veteran who was assaulted for mentioning God in a speech.

July 26, 2017: David Berkowitz, aka the "Son of Sam" killer, is now a born-again Christian who wants to remain behind bars as penance for his crimes and "reach out to young people to show them the consequences of [their] actions."

July 25, 2017: The Woodlands First Baptist Church in Texas has said it is continuing to "seek God's will with grace and truth" while announcing that the church's associate pastor, Eddie Hilburn, resigned from his position after being arrested by a Harris County Sheriff's deputy who he allegedly paid for sex.

July 24, 2017: Charlie Gard's parents have ended their five-month legal battle to take the terminally ill baby to the United States for experimental treatment.

July 13, 2017: After a Christian woman was robbed and sexually assaulted on the streets of NYC while attempting to leaving a church service, her pastor has warned her attackers to be prepared for God to "lay a hand on them", as "nobody does evil and goes scot-free".

July 6, 2017: Hobby Lobby president Steve Green has said his company has "accepted responsibility and learned a great deal" after agreeing to pay a $3 million fine and forfeit thousands of ancient artifacts that were smuggled from Iraq with improper labels.

July 5, 2017: A Jewish extremist has been found guilty of carrying out a 2015 arson attack that damaged a church in northern Israel where Christians believe Jesus performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes.

July 5, 2017: Four Iranian converts facing the possibility of up to six years in prison on charges of "acting against national security" are awaiting a verdict expected to be issued soon after numerous delays, according to human rights activists.

June 30, 2017: Two Christian street preachers who were fined thousands of dollars for saying "Allah is the greatest deceiver" and referring to homosexuality as "immoral" have won appeals against their convictions.

June 21, 2017: The Village Church pastor Matt Chandler has expressed outrage over the acquittal of the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile last July and called the case "dirty" and "demonic".

June 20, 2017: Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary who served a 735-day prison sentence after the North Korean government claimed he was part of a Christian plot to overthrow the regime, has called the death of Otto Warmbier a "tragedy" and urged the international community to pray for his family.

June 16, 2017: Hours before she was killed in a church bus accident, 17-year-old missionary Sarah Harmening wrote of her love for God and expressed belief that He called her on earth for a reason.

A pro-family American pastor accused by LGBT activists of persecuting homosexuals when he preached in Uganda scored a victory in court when his case was dismissed for lack of jurisdictional ground. However, the judge who presided over the case riddled his ruling with defamatory and accusatory statements, prompting the pastor and his attorneys to file an appeal striking the judge’s language.

June7, 2017: The granddaughter of televangelist Jan Crouch has said she hopes to rebuild her relationship with God after being awarded 2 million in damages by a jury which found her grandmother responsible for the pain and damage she experienced after she was raped.

June 6, 2017: Jiang Tianyong, prominent Chinese Christian lawyer, has been formally charged with "subverting state power" by Chinese authorities and may be forced to confess to crimes he didn't commit.

Televangelist Jan Crouch, founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network, has been accused of covering up the rape of her teenage granddaughter by a TBN employee in an effort to "save the reputation" of the network.