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President Donald Trump says he’ll be speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in separate calls today in an effort to “stop the bloodbath” and end the war.

Down in Texas, CP’s “Inside Story” podcast breaks down the complex drama surrounding a proposed 400-acre Muslim community that’s being investigated by the DOJ. The planned development would include over 1,000 homes, a mosque, a K-12 Islamic school and a college.

And in church news, the Reformed Episcopal Church has stripped Calvin Robinson of his temporary clerical license following a public complaint from an Anglican archbishop. The decision comes months after he left the U.K. to pastor a church in Michigan. This latest setback has led Robinson — who has long warned churches not to reject Christian beliefs to accommodate worldly values — to express doubts about his calling to the ministry despite the great need for pastors, writing, “perhaps God is sending me a message.”

SHASHEMENE, Ethiopia — Eleven-year-old Mensur grips his little brother Nuredin’s hand tightly as they walk through their family’s flourishing vegetable garden. He loves his brother with a fierce and fatherly type of love. Together, they admire the deep green rows — a stark change from the dry and barren soil that was previously there.

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