Anugrah Kumar

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  Sep 2, 2021

  Majority of Afghan interpreters left behind: Senior State Dept. official

  While the United States has evacuated more than 123,000 people out of Afghanistan, the majority of Afghan interpreters who are at risk of Taliban reprisal for helping the U.S. and up to 200 Americans have been left behind, a senior State Department official and other government officials said.

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  Sep 1, 2021

  Over 2,500 church leaders urge Australia’s PM not to mandate vaccine passports

  Nearly 2,500 church leaders from different denominations in Australia are urging Prime Minister Scott Morrison not to implement vaccine passports in the country, warning that it would create “an unethical two-tiered society” and “medical apartheid.”

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  Aug 30, 2021

  Afghan Christians left behind will be ‘targeted with deadly violence’: Human rights group warns

  Human rights group ADF International has urged the international community to address the “dire plight” of religious minority communities in Afghanistan, including 10,000 Christians who are now “at extreme risk of being targeted with deadly violence.” They also need to be evacuated, the group says.

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  Aug 30, 2021

  Muslim cleric arrested on blasphemy charges for insulting Christianity, calling the Bible ‘fiction’

  Police in the Muslim-majority country of Indonesia arrested a Muslim cleric for allegedly blaspheming against Christianity by calling the Bible fictitious and false in one of his sermons.

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  Aug 30, 2021

  Liberty University shifts to online classes to mitigate COVID-19 spread on campus

  With nearly 160 active COVID-19 cases, Liberty University has announced “temporary mitigation measures” to slow the spread of the virus on campus by moving residential classes online and suspending large indoor gatherings.

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  Aug 30, 2021

  Hurricane Ida leaves 1 dead, over 1 million without power in Louisiana

  At least one person has been found dead, and all of New Orleans left without power with many homes flooded after Hurricane Ida slammed Louisiana as a Category 4 storm Sunday, before weakening into a Category 1 hurricane and then to a tropical storm early Monday.

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  Aug 29, 2021

  Biden blasts China’s lack of transparency in response to report on COVID-19 origins

  A U.S. intelligence report says its 90-day investigation ordered by President Joe Biden to look into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, including whether the virus leaked from a Chinese lab, is “inconclusive” due to China’s unwillingness to cooperate.

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  Aug 29, 2021

  16-year-old boy suffers burns over 60% of his body in suspected anti-Christian attack

  A 16-year-old Christian boy suffered burns over 60% of his body after an acid attack in eastern India’s Bihar state. The family says they suspect Hindu nationalists are behind it because the boy is a leader in a local church and the area they live in has anti-Christian sentiments.

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  Aug 28, 2021

  Pentagon confirms 2 ‘high profile’ ISIS-K militants killed in retaliation for Kabul airport attack

  Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby confirmed Saturday that two high profile ISIS-K terrorists, one "planner" and one "facilitator," were killed in a drone strike but would not release the names of the two individuals or their nationalities.

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  Aug 26, 2021

  China: Police arrest 10 kids, 18 adults in raid on worship gathering

  Police in China raided a small group of Christian worshipers from a heavily-persecuted house church in southwestern China’s Sichuan province and arrested almost everyone, including an infant less than 1 year old, nine children and 18 adults.