Anugrah Kumar

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  Jun 28, 2021

  British street preacher awarded $4.5K over wrongful arrest

  A Christian street preacher arrested while preaching the Gospel has won his case against a police department that admitted liability in a lawsuit, agreeing to pay $4,500 in damages in addition to his legal costs for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and violating his human rights.

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  Jun 28, 2021

  2 injured in church bombing before confirmation ceremony in DRC; 2nd bomber killed by own IED

  At least two people were injured after a makeshift bomb exploded inside a Catholic church in the conflict-plagued eastern city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday. Hours later, a suspected bomber was killed by his own improvised explosive device at a busy intersection.

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  Jun 28, 2021

  Sex trafficking victims can sue Facebook for giving pimps platform to prey on kids: Texas Supreme Court

  Responding to civil actions involving teenage sex trafficking victims from Houston, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that lawsuits can be filed against Facebook for the conduct of pimps who use the social media site to prey on children.

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  Jun 28, 2021

  Mali: Gunmen release Christian leader, 4 others abducted en route to priest's funeral

  A Catholic priest and four other people have been freed by their kidnappers in Mali. In the West African country, jihadi insurgencies led by groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State are known for carrying out abductions and committing atrocities.

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  Jun 27, 2021

  Justin Trudeau demands apology from Pope Francis after 751 more graves of indigenous children found

  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Pope Francis to visit Canada and apologize after 751 more unmarked graves were found at the site of what was once that country’s residential school under the administration of the Roman Catholic Church to assimilate indigenous people.

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  Jun 27, 2021

  Billy Graham trauma chaplains, Christian groups bring comfort to distraught families of 150 missing in Florida tower collapse

  As rescue crews carry on with their search for survivors, trauma counselors with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team and other Christian groups are ministering to the families of 150 people who remain missing and nine people who have died after a 12-story beachfront condo building in Florida partially collapsed Thursday night.

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  Jun 24, 2021

  Pakistani Christian girl forced to convert to Islam, kept as ‘slave’ cook

  A Muslim couple in Pakistan’s Punjab province forcibly converted a 13-year-old Christian girl to Islam so that she could work as a cook in their kitchen and touch utensils and food items. Now they are refusing to allow her to return home to her parents unless they pay a ransom, according to a report.

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  Jun 22, 2021

  China’s state-sanctioned churches to celebrate Communist Party’s centennial

  In the run-up to the Chinese Communist Party’s planned celebrations to mark 100 years of its existence on July 1, churches affiliated with the government are organizing and participating in events that seek to glorify the single-party rule that has persecuted religious communities.

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  Jun 21, 2021

  Christians, religious minorities protest establishment of Islam as state religion in Bangladesh

  Christians and other religious minorities in Bangladesh recently took part in the annual “Black Day” protest against the 1988 constitutional amendments that established Islam as the state religion, leading to persecution and discrimination against non-Muslims in the Muslim-majority country.

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  Jun 21, 2021

  Democrat warns Catholic Church it may be stripped of tax-exempt status if politicians denied communion

  As U.S. Catholic bishops draft a controversial document on whether priests can deny communion to politicians who support abortion, one House Democrat has implied that the Catholic Church should lose its tax-exempt status if churches institute such a ban.