Globe Trot: Muslims toss Christians into sea during migration attempt

ITALY: Muslim migrants threw overboard 12 Christians during a recent crossing from Libya to Italy. The survivors, mostly migrant workers from Africa, kept their lives by forming a human chain to resist further assault. Another 400 are presumed dead in the sinking of another migrant boat near the Libyan coast. The Italian coast has a sadly growing history of taking on escapees from conflicts in Africa and the Middle East—often ending in tragedy.

IRAQ: Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi admitted in a speech in Washington that having a key Iranian commander on the ground in Iraq was “a bad idea,” and said his government “must have a say in what the Iranians do and don’t do in Iraq.” The Iraqi Embassy in Washington is tracking its progress against Islamic State (called “Daesh” in Arabic).

ISIS is destroying Christian grave sites in Mosul.

ELECTION 2016: The Clinton Foundation’s new rules meant to compensate for millions in donations from rogue overseas states, permit donations from Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and the U.K, countries that are uncontroversial U.S. allies (and generally allow women to drive, unlike Saudi Arabia and a few others that have donated to the foundation). But other nations now prohibited from making large donations have a loophole: They can participate via the Clinton Global Initiative, a foundation subsidiary.

WEEKEND LISTEN: Be imitators of Christ, is the one slogan worth adopting, says Timothy Dalrymple, respected editor at Patheos, in an interview with my colleague Warren Smith. “If success is defined that way, then success is available to all of us.”

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