Anugrah Kumar

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  Jan 22, 2022

  Federal judge blocks Biden's enforcement of COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees

  Just over a week after the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large businesses, a federal judge in Texas also blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for federal employees Friday. 

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  Jan 22, 2022

  China warns Olympic athletes who protest rights abuses are subject to 'certain punishment'

  A Chinese government official has warned that foreign athletes participating at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing next month could be “subject to punishment” if they speak out about rights issues, especially against Chinese laws and regulations.

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  Jan 17, 2022

  Pastors among 9 Christians arrested, charged with 'illegal' conversions in India: watchdog

  Police in India’s central state of Madhya Pradesh arrested nine Christians, including two pastors, on false charges of illegal conversion under the state’s controversial “anti-conversion” law, a Christian persecution watchdog organization reports. 

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  Jan 17, 2022

  Christian MP says prosecution for tweeting Bible verse on homosexuality is a ‘privilege’

  A Christian politician in Finland who faces the possibility of six years in prison for sharing her deeply held biblical beliefs on sexuality and marriage says it’s “quite a privilege” to be interrogated for her religious beliefs.

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  Jan 17, 2022

  California drops Aztec prayers from ethnic studies curriculum after parents file suit

  The California Department of Education said it's removing two religious chants to Aztec gods from its ethnic studies curriculum in response to a lawsuit filed by parents.

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  Jan 17, 2022

  14-year-old Pentecostal girl kidnapped, forced to marry captor in Pakistan

  Yet another underage girl in Pakistan has been abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry her Muslim captor as police have allegedly been slow to act on the case, according to a report.

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  Jan 16, 2022

  200 Hindu radicals attack Christians at house church in India

  A mob of some 200 Hindu nationalists attacked a house church during its worship service in India’s eastern state of Chhattisgarh, injuring the pastor and at least two other Christians and forcibly converting a Christian woman to Hinduism, according to a report.

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  Jan 16, 2022

  Tsunami causes ‘significant’ damage in Tonga’s capital; casualty reports await

  Tsunami waves crashed across the shore of the Pacific nation of Tonga after the eruption of a huge undersea volcano Saturday, causing “significant” damage in the capital city of Nuku’alofa and bringing the entire U.S. West coast under a tsunami advisory.

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  Jan 15, 2022

  Texas synagogue hostages are safe, suspect who wanted known terrorist freed shot dead

  The FBI and Texas authorities resolved an hourslong hostage situation at a Dallas-Fort Worth area synagogue late Saturday after they killed an armed man who stormed the Jewish place of worship on the Sabbath and held four hostages, including a rabbi, reportedly demanding the release of a convicted terrorist whom U.S. officials once described as the “most wanted woman in the world.”

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  Jan 15, 2022

  Team USA advises Olympic athletes to leave phones at home to evade China's cyber spies

  The United States and several other countries are advising Olympic athletes who'll be competing in the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in China to use disposable or “burner” phones and not their own devices due to the communist government’s possible surveillance.