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LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Junior has signed a law that will expand Muslim courts in the country.  Christians are expressing concern about the expansion of Sharia Law in the Philippines where the vast majority of the population is Christian.  One pastor in Cebu (say-boo) City tells International Christian Concern “We respect the need for Islamic law for our Muslim brothers and sisters, but we also need to ensure that this does not create a legal divide or cause misunderstanding between communities of different faiths.”  Meanwhile, Muslim terrorism is on the increase in the Philippines and in other parts of Asia.

With Florida and the Southeast reeling from two massive hurricanes in less than a month, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is putting out a call for more volunteers.  Baptist Press reports that calls for more volunteers are coming from Florida, Tennessee and South Carolina amongst other states.  That has resulted in more disaster relief training classes in Southern Baptist churches all across the region.  In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina smashed New Orleans, tens-of-thousands of Baptists volunteered to help with relief and SBC organizers say they expect to see a similar phenomenon in the wake of the latest storms.

A full-scale replica of the rooms Anne Frank used to hide from Nazi occupiers during World War Two is heading to New York.  The replica of the Anne Frank House museum, which is located in Amsterdam, is being built in the Netherlands and will be shipped across the Atlantic for a show titled “Anne Frank The Exhibition” at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. It will open on January 27th, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.  The exhibition comes at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world and in the United States.

The Biden administration has upgraded the records of more than 800 military personnel who were discharged for violating the former “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on homosexuality. The move is the latest in a campaign by the administration to court LGBT voters in an election year.  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had ordered a review of cases of former service members who might have been affected by the Clinton-era policy.  The records of the 800 former service members have been upgraded to “honorably discharged”.

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