Anugrah Kumar

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  Sep 29, 2022

  Hurricane Ian leaves 2.5 million without power in Florida; Orlando sees record-breaking rainfall

  More than 2.5 million homes were without power in Florida amid catastrophic floods and life-threatening storm surge early Thursday, hours after Hurricane Ian made landfall near Cayo Costa as a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. The international evangelical relief group Samaritan’s Purse is preparing to respond.

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  Sep 28, 2022

  Episcopal church pays ‘voluntary tax’ to indigenous tribes as form of land acknowledgment

  An Episcopal church in Wisconsin has included in its budget a voluntary tax on its property to give to the state's Native American tribes to acknowledge that it stands on land that "used to be someone else's homeland."

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  Sep 28, 2022

  Hurricane Ian Tracker: Florida braces for catastrophic landfall

  After leaving 11 million people without power in Cuba, Hurricane Ian became a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane early Wednesday with winds up to 155 mph as it moves closer to Port Charlotte and the southwestern coast, where it's expected to make landfall by the afternoon and is predicted to cause life-threatening flooding.

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  Sep 28, 2022

  Victory for Christian student in peril of losing license to work due to backlash over graduation speech

  The governing body of a university in Mexico has dismissed proceedings started by the school against a recent psychology graduate to withdraw his license to practice due to his graduation speech defending the family and the sanctity of life, calling the demand for action “unfounded.”

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  Sep 27, 2022

  Mother sentenced to 23 years in prison for sex trafficking 6-year-old daughter

  A U.S. district judge has sentenced a 31-year-old woman in Washington state to 23 years in prison for sex trafficking her 6-year-old girl in exchange for a place to stay, cash and new Nike shoes.

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  Sep 26, 2022

  Cubans vote to legalize same-sex marriage, adoption in family code

  Cubans on Sunday voted to approve a new family code that, among other things, legalizes same-sex marriage. The new code is one of the most progressive in Latin America. 

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  Sep 26, 2022

  Biden blasts 15-week abortion ban: ‘My church doesn’t even make that argument’

  President Biden criticized Sen. Lindsey Graham’s proposed bill that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of gestation nationwide, saying, “My church doesn’t even make that argument now.”

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  Sep 26, 2022

  UK parents win gov't commitment to reform school guidance on trans-identified students, awarded $23K

  Christian parents in the United Kingdom, who pulled their children out of a church-run school due to its guidance on trans-identified students, have been awarded over $23,900 in legal costs and a commitment from the British government to reform trans-affirming policies in schools.

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  Sep 26, 2022

  Nun murdered, 6 beheaded by the Islamic State in Mozambique

  Amid rising jihadist violence in Mozambique, an 83-year-old Italian nun was shot and killed and six others were beheaded earlier this month by suspected militants aligned with the Islamic State.

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  Sep 26, 2022

  Over 40 killed as mass protests rock Iran after ‘morality police’ kill woman over ‘improper hijab’

  More than 40 people have been killed as anti-government protests rocked dozens of Iranian cities in the last week following the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was arrested by the Iranian "morality police" for not properly wearing a hijab earlier this month.