Anugrah Kumar

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  Nov 21, 2021

  NYC pastor who ran over, used machete to hack estranged wife to death pleads guilty

  A New York pastor who ran over his estranged wife with her car and then repeatedly attacked her with a machete in front of neighbors and her grandchildren has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, according to prosecutors.

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  Nov 21, 2021

  Asylum seekers getting Christian tattoos of Jesus to bolster conversion claims, stay in UK

  Asylum seekers in the United Kingdom are getting tattoos of crucifixes and Jesus to falsely claim they are converts to Christianity to bolster their case to attain British citizenship which some suggest could be the reason why the Liverpool bomber in last week’s attack was identified as a Christian convert.

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  Nov 20, 2021

  Christian nurses' bail 'kept secret' in blasphemy case to protect women from radical Islamist attacks

  A trial court judge in Pakistan granted bail to two Christian nurses, who were charged with “defiling the Quran,” two months ago but the decision was kept secret to avoid Islamist backlash, according to the defendants’ lawyer.

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  Nov 20, 2021

  Ugandan pastor slain by Muslims in anti-Christian attack in front of daughter: 'You will face the wrath from Allah'

  Islamic extremists in an eastern Uganda district accused a 58-year-old Christian pastor of being an “infidel, who had harmed the religion of Allah” for refusing to remove his church building. Wielding long knives and blunt objects, the men attacked the pastor in front of his daughter, who fled the scene to report the crime to police, according to reports.

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  Nov 20, 2021

  Church employee sentenced to over 5 years in prison for embezzling $450K from congregation

  A 52-year-old Texas woman has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in federal prison, as part of a plea deal, for using more than $450,000 from church funds for personal expenses, the Department of Justice said.

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  Nov 16, 2021

  Family of 12-y-o Christian girl held captive by Muslim man in Pakistan fear she's being forced into Islamic marriage

  The family of a 12-year-old Christian girl from Pakistan’s Punjab province who was abducted by a Muslim man earlier this month fears she's been forcefully converted to Islam and married to her abductor, just as many other girls have been in the past.

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  Nov 15, 2021

  USCCB considering ‘teaching document’ urging Catholic politicians to ‘embody church teaching’

  U.S. Catholic Bishops are expected to vote this week on a proposed document focused on the meaning of communion that could call for Catholic public servants to “embody Church teaching.” 

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  Nov 15, 2021

  26 state school board associations distance themselves from national group calling parents ‘terrorists’

  At least 26 state school board associations have distanced themselves from the National School Board Association after it urged the Biden administration to use federal law enforcement agencies against parents who oppose the teaching of controversial curriculum in public schools by labeling them as potential “domestic terrorists.”

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  Nov 15, 2021

  Iranian authorities order pastor back to prison to serve 5-year sentence after temporary reprieve

  Iranian authorities have ordered a pastor from the Church of Iran denomination to return to prison to begin serving a five-year sentence for “sectarian activities,” indicating that Christian persecution might be intensifying after a brief respite due to the spread of COVID-19 that led authorities to the temporary release of many people from prison.

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  Nov 14, 2021

  Carl Lentz’s wife says she suffered from depression, PTSD after cheating scandal

  Laura Lentz, the wife of former Hillsong NYC Pastor Carl Lentz, has opened up about how she suffered from worsening depression and PTSD after her husband was fired from the global megachurch due to alleged moral failures and infidelity last November.