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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batson, joined by my good colleague, Bill Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

He, among others, keeps the Long War Journal.

And filing of the Long World Journal, Caleb Weiss of the FD, as well as the Bridgeway Foundation, traveling in Africa.

To help us with a story that he's posted right now, you can read it about a suicide bombing

attempt in Uganda on Uganda's martyrs day, which is Caleb fills me in on the details here,

when 45 Christian martyrs were murdered in the late 19th century by traditional authorities

because the martyrs, following through on 2,000 years of Christian martyrdom,

refused to renounce Christianity.

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