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Christian group and family raise outcry over detention of another ‘house church’ elder in China

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BANGKOK — Ding Zhongfu was awakened by loud pounding on his door. Five policemen greeted Ding, an elder in a Chinese church. The officers pinned him to the wall that Thursday morning in November and interrogated him while searching the apartment he shared with his wife, Ge Yunxia, and their 6-year old daughter. Ding’s family … Read more

Giorgio Napolitano, elder statesman of Italian politics, dies at 98

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Giorgio Napolitano, the long-serving Italian president and a pillar of stability in the hurly-burly of his country’s politics, most notably in 2011 when he helped guide the nation out of economic crisis and beyond the turbulence of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s years in power, died Sept. 22 at a clinic in Rome. He was 98. … Read more