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		<title>Womb to grow</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/05/15/womb-to-grow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="255" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/lifestyle_16.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="lifestyle_16" /></p>The thriving practice of embryo adoption is saving little lives from destruction Many moms remember on Mother’s Day how they gave birth. Debi Beasley remembers driving with her husband Kent for seven hours from Los Angeles to Santa Rosa, Calif., in 1997 with seven frozen embryos in a tank in the backseat. They blasted the&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Introduces Bill Banning Abortions in D.C. After 20 Weeks</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/04/29/gop-introduces-bill-banning-abortions-in-d-c-after-20-weeks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=28732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="222" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/baby_finger_ap.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="baby_finger_ap" /></p>Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) introduced a bill on April 26 banning most abortions in Washington, D.C. after 20 weeks. He introduced a bill requiring this same restriction last year that failed to pass. The Susan B. Anthony List (SBA) and other pro-life groups are praising the move by Franks. They see it as a viable way to&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher Suspended For Showing Students Common Household Tools</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/04/25/teacher-suspended-for-showing-students-common-household-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=28684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="215" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/tools.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="tools" /></p>Students aren’t the only ones being suspended for drawing, making hand gestures, chewing food in the shape of or thinking about guns or things that could be used as weapons. It’s all about purging their still-developing minds of guns; brainwashing them to think that guns and other self-defense tools are inherently evil. But this brainwashing&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Worldly Christians&#039; are &#039;damaging the faith&#039;</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/03/25/worldly-christians-are-damaging-the-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://zionica.com/2013/03/25/worldly-christians-are-damaging-the-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=28288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="250" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WorldlyHoly600.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="WorldlyHoly600" /></p>An online survey has indicated that about a quarter of Christians are 'not very Christian' in how they live their daily lives. The Christianity Quiz, which was created by the nonprofit Changing the Face of Christianity, includes 10 multiple-choice questions that assess how anonymous participants live their faith. In data taken from January 2011 to&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Life Discovered 7 Miles Below Sea Level in Mariana Trench Pacific Ocean</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/03/20/life-discovered-7-miles-below-sea-level-in-mariana-trench-pacific-ocean/</link>
		<comments>http://zionica.com/2013/03/20/life-discovered-7-miles-below-sea-level-in-mariana-trench-pacific-ocean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=28234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="204" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/4952595424_2d562421fd_z.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="Life Discovered 7 Miles Below Sea Level in Mariana Trench – photo by USFWS Pacific
Read more at http://americanlivewire.com/life-discovered-7-miles-below-sea-level/" /></p>New life discovered 7 miles below sea level in Mariana Trench as scientists have found a large and thriving community of microbes living in one of the deepest points on Earth. According to Weather.com, new life discovered 7 miles below sea level in Mariana Trench as many in the scientific community excited as microbes have been found&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion Survivor: “I Shouldn’t Be Standing Here at All”</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/03/07/abortion-survivor-i-shouldnt-be-standing-here-at-all/</link>
		<comments>http://zionica.com/2013/03/07/abortion-survivor-i-shouldnt-be-standing-here-at-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=27978</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="229" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/melissa_still-300x275.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="melissa_still-300x275" /></p>Six hundred people gathered at the Crossroads Pregnancy Center fundraiser at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester Hills on Friday night, March 1, to hear Melissa Ohden speak. Ohden climbed the steps to the platform and took the microphone in her hand to begin. From the first sentence of her spectacular story, the assembly realized that these simple actions were&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-lifers hesitate on major personhood bill. Why?</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/03/07/pro-lifers-hesitate-on-major-personhood-bill-why/</link>
		<comments>http://zionica.com/2013/03/07/pro-lifers-hesitate-on-major-personhood-bill-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=27971</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="249" height="250" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/baby_born-240x179.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="baby_born-240x179" /></p>Are we serious about pro-life or not? The following is an open letter from IA State Rep. Greg Heartsill. March 4, 2013 Dear Pro-Life Friends, Every once in a while it becomes necessary for a movement to take a step back and ask itself some very important and fundamental questions. Questions like “What is our objective?”&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Parents Should Have Their Kids Play with Toy Guns</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/03/06/christian-parents-should-have-their-kids-play-with-toy-guns/</link>
		<comments>http://zionica.com/2013/03/06/christian-parents-should-have-their-kids-play-with-toy-guns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=27948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="213" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/red_hot_stove.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="red_hot_stove" /></p>According to CBS, St. Louis, Pastor Rodney Francis, of the Washington Tabernacle Baptist Church, wants to keep kiddos away from guns, so this summer his church is planning a “toy gun buy back” program. How quaint. I kid you not: A. Toy. Gun. Buy. Back. Sounds like he’s setting up the next generation to be&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Joy in the Journey</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/03/02/taking-joy-in-the-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=27869</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="250" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Joy-in-the-Journey-2.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="Joy-in-the-Journey-2" /></p>How to be Better, Not Bitter in the Midst of a Crisis! 1 Samuel 30:6 – And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.&#8230;]]></description>
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