Anugrah Kumar

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  Oct 31, 2021

  ‘I found God’: Jordan Peterson’s daughter Mikhaila talks finding peace in prayer, reading the Bible

  The daughter of author and speaker Jordan Peterson recently revealed that she has come to believe in God and that her conversion to Christianity was “very sudden.”

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  Oct 31, 2021

  Early Rain preacher, family endure persecution, harassment at home

  A preacher and his family from Early Rain Covenant Church, a heavily-persecuted house church in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, who continue to endure persecution by communist authorities, are now being harassed in their home. The family recently woke up to the sound of someone banging on the front door of their house, only to find the door graffitied with the message “Pay your debt," the keyhole filled with glue and electricity shut off.

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  Oct 30, 2021

  DOJ reaches $88M settlement with survivors, families of 9 killed in mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church

  The U.S. Justice Department has said it will settle the lawsuits arising out of the June 2015 mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, which left nine churchgoers dead, by paying $88 million to the families of those killed as well as to the survivors.

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  Oct 30, 2021

  Portland first in nation to offer bereavement leave for employees who get an abortion

  Pro-choice activists are celebrating an amendment to Portland’s bereavement leave policy that has made it the first local government in the United States to give paid time off to public employees after an abortion. One pro-life group is calling it an unwitting acknowledgment of the loss of life.

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  Oct 25, 2021

  Archaeologists find rare 2,000-year-old ‘Balm of Gilead’ gemstone seal near Western Wall

  Archaeologists in Israel say they have discovered in eastern Jerusalem a 2,000-year-old precious gem an engraving that depicts the Balm of Gilead, a rare perfume used medicinally and which was mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

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  Oct 25, 2021

  Catholic Church census reveals growth in Asia and Africa, decline in Europe

  An annual census by the Vatican news agency, Fides, shows that the number of Catholics has increased in Africa, the Americas and Asia but gone down in Europe.

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  Oct 25, 2021

  17 Coptic Christians go missing in Libya, fears rise over possible abduction by terrorists

  At least 17 Egyptian Coptic Christians have gone missing in Libya, and it's feared an armed group might have abducted them in the north African country where 21 Coptic Christians were beheaded by ISIS in 2015.

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  Oct 25, 2021

  Father gets 11 years in prison for drowning daughter in church baptismal pool

  A judge in northern California has sentenced a man to 11 years in prison for drowning his 4-year-old daughter in the baptismal pool of a Catholic church while high on methamphetamine.

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  Oct 25, 2021

  Biden State Dept. increases number of Americans left behind in Afghanistan

  The Biden administration, which had been saying for weeks that the number of Americans still left behind in Afghanistan and urgently want to be evacuated was about 100, has now increased the number to about 200.

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  Oct 24, 2021

  India: Human rights groups document over 300 acts of Christian persecution in 2021

  Human rights groups in India say they have documented over 300 incidents of Christian persecution in just the first nine months of 2021, warning that this year might be the worst in terms of the number of such incidents in the country’s history.