Anugrah Kumar

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  Feb 9, 2023

  Chinese house church fears more persecution as 2 preachers remain in jail for 'defrauding' through tithes

  The Covenant House Church in Shanxi province in northeast China has requested prayers for its congregation as authorities are preparing to resume their investigation into a fabricated case that resulted in the imprisonment of two of its pastors and a church member.

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  Feb 7, 2023

  Influencer Oli London says going to church, listening to Jesus saved him from mutilating his body

  British social media influencer Oli London, who identified as trans for six months and underwent surgery to resemble male Korean pop idols, said visiting a church and listening to Jesus prevented him from traveling to Thailand for irreversible body surgeries he would have regretted, presumably castration. 

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  Feb 6, 2023

  Over 2,600 killed in Turkey, Syria after strongest earthquake in over 100 years

  Over 2,600 people have been killed in southern Turkey and northern Syria as death tolls continue to rise after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey's Nurdagi town early Monday, one of the strongest to hit the region in more than 100 years, officials say. 

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  Feb 6, 2023

  'The Chosen’ season 3 finale ranks among top 10 in weekend box office hits

  The season 3 finale of the hit TV series “The Chosen,” consisting of episodes 7 and 8, was a hit over the weekend, coming in at No. 9 among the top 10 movies at the box office. 

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  Feb 6, 2023

  3 killed in attack on Ethiopian church amid tension over breakaway Orthodox synod

  Three people were killed and at least four injured by alleged security forces in an attack on a church in southern Ethiopia Saturday amid growing tensions within the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, one of the oldest Christian institutions in the world. 

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  Feb 5, 2023

  Pope Francis calls on South Sudanese churches not to stay neutral when witness to acts of injustice

  Pope Francis, who is on a three-day peace mission in South Sudan, met with the Catholic leadership, urging churches in the war-torn country not to remain neutral but to speak out against injustice and the abuse of power, even as dozens of pilgrims spent nine days walking to reach the capital city of Juba to meet the pontiff.

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  Feb 5, 2023

  China responds to US shooting down ‘Red Zeppelin’ as tensions rise

  Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated further this weekend with the Chinese foreign ministry expressing extreme displeasure after the U.S. military shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, nicknamed “Red Zeppelin,” off the eastern seaboard Saturday, several days after it had flown thousands of miles over the continental U.S.

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  Feb 5, 2023

  Baptist church mourns loss of seminary student, youth director killed in accident

  A 30-year-old student at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Missouri was killed in a car accident last week. She was a beloved student at the seminary and had served as a youth director at a church in Kansas City, which announced plans for a memorial service on Wednesday.

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  Feb 4, 2023

  ‘Jesus always wins’: Pastors celebrate baptism of 77-year-old woman with Parkinson’s

  A video of a 77-year-old woman with Parkinson’s disease being baptized at a church in London is going viral on social media. “As surely as the devil is a liar, he is also a loser,” says the pastor of the church.

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  Feb 4, 2023

  Tribal Christians recount horrors of devastating spate of attacks carried out by Hindu nationalist mobs

  Tribal Christians in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh continue to suffer the aftermath of a series of brutal attacks carried out by Hindu nationalists in recent months, resulting in more than 2,500 Christians becoming homeless and hundreds of homes being vandalized and looted.