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(SRN NEWS) – An Australian nurse has been charged with making threats after she appeared in an online video saying she would not treat Israeli patients. Sarah Abu Lebdeh, a Muslim, faces three federal offenses and has been released on bail. She and another nurse, Ahmed Nadir, were suspended from Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney two months ago over an online exchange with an Israeli influencer. Abu Lebdeh said she wouldn’t treat Israeli patients while Nadir said he had killed Israelis. The hospital examined patient records and found no evidence that the nurses had harmed patients.
Leaders of the European Union will lift sanctions against Syria now that strongman Bashar Assad is no longer ruling. The Islamic rebels who took over the country late last year are so far treating Christians and other religious minorities with respect. The European Council says, “This decision is part of the EU’s efforts to support an inclusive political transition in Syria, and its swift economic recovery, reconstruction, and stabilization.” Syrian Christian leaders are taking a cautiously optimistic stance for the moment, though they warn that the rebels have made no specific promises.
Iowa has become the first state to remove so-called gender identity protections from its civil rights code. Republican Governor Kim Reynolds has signed a bill into law just a day after the Republican-controlled legislature approved the measure. The new legislation removes gender identity as a protected class from Iowa’s civil rights code. It also explicitly defines female and male, as well as gender. President Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office to formalize a definition of the two sexes at the federal level, leading several Republican-led legislatures to push for similar laws.
An ancient town in Syria is one of the world’s few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus used. But since the fall of former President Bashar Assad last year, some residents fear their future is precarious. Many Christians in Syria felt they were collectively accused of siding with Assad during the country’s civil war. The Syrian strongman always portrayed himself as the protector of Christians and other religious minorities. Now the town’s residents have asked the country’s new leaders for protection after incidents of looting and harassment.
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