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Correction: \u00a0Three more martyrs for Christ. \u00a0Shama was pregnant when she and her husband were burned alive on Tuesday by a mob of Muslim savages. In the early Church, this couple\u00a0would have been instantly canonized as martyrs and venerated as saints by popular acclaim. Good enough for me. Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi, pray for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[616,13],"class_list":["post-55749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bronze-age-savages","tag-suffering-church"],"yoast_head":"\n
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