Anugrah Kumar

Latest

• 
  May 16, 2022

  Muslim youth attack churches after arrest of perpetrators in murder of Christian student Deborah Emmanuel

  A mob of Muslims have vandalized three church buildings and damaged and looted Christian-owned shops in Nigeria’s Sokoto state after police arrested two Muslims for beating to death a 25-year-old Christian student and burning her body over false allegations of blasphemy.

• 
  May 16, 2022

  Study finds 37% of pastors have biblical worldview: Spiritual awakening 'needed in our pulpits'

  A new study from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University has found that just 37% of Christian pastors in the United States have a biblical worldview, demonstrating that spiritual awakening is "needed just as desperately in our pulpits as in the pews," according to the pollster.

• 
  May 16, 2022

  Pastor, church members hit and tackled shooter at Calif. church luncheon as he attempted to reload

  The pastor of a California Presbyterian church hit a gunman with a chair as the shooter paused to reload his gun after killing one member and injuring four others during the church’s lunch reception following the Sunday worship service. The church members then grabbed and hog-tied the gunman to stop the attack, which the police described as “exceptional heroism and bravery.”

• 
  May 16, 2022

  Bobbie Houston says she’s ‘trusting in the living God, righteous courts of Heaven’

  Bobbie Houston, who claimed a little more than a month ago that the Hillsong Church she co-founded had fired her by text message, now says she and her husband Brian Houston, who resigned after two misconduct allegations were made against him, “are still here … trusting the righteous Courts of Heaven.”

• 
  May 15, 2022

  Devout Christians among 10 killed by shooter at Buffalo grocery store in racially motivated attack

  A heavily armed 18-year-old man opened fire at a grocery store in a predominantly black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, Saturday, killing 10 people, including at least two Christian believers, and wounding three others in what is being described as a racially motivated hate crime. The self-described white supremacist shooter livestreamed the massacre before surrendering to police.

• 
  May 15, 2022

  China: Police raid Early Rain Covenant Church gathering, detain youth leader for interrogations

  Police raided the home of a youth leader associated with the heavily persecuted Early Rain Covenant Church while he was hosting a gathering for youth just days ago and detained him for interrogations, according to a report.

• 
  May 14, 2022

  Tim Keller shares cancer update: ‘God has seen it fit to give me more time’

  Two years after being diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, Pastor Tim Keller, the founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church and City to City, shared an update, saying, “God has seen it fit to give me more time,” but a “a rigorous and demanding” procedure awaits him.

• 
  May 14, 2022

  Nigerian student beaten to death, body burned over ‘blasphemous’ WhatsApp message

  A 25-year-old Christian student in Nigeria’s Sokoto State was beaten to death and her body burned after her Muslim classmates purportedly found a blasphemous message she had sent to a school WhatsApp group, according to a persecution watchdog group.

• 
  May 12, 2022

  'A new low': World reacts after Hong Kong arrests 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen

  Hong Kong’s national security police arrested 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen under its national security law for his role in a now-defunct humanitarian relief organization that helped people who participated in the large-scale 2019 pro-democracy protests.

• 
  May 9, 2022

  Religious freedom law firm threatens to sue pro-abortion activists who disrupt church services

  A religious freedom law firm says it will represent any church or person of faith that seeks legal recourse against a group that has threatened or disrupted services in the wake of a leaked draft majority opinion by the U.S. Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Wade.