Anugrah Kumar

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  Apr 10, 2021

  Teen Missions International founder Robert Bland dies at 92

  Robert Bland, who was affectionately known as “Bob” and led Teen Missions International for 50 years after he founded it in 1970, died peacefully at the age of 92 on Good Friday. The funeral service will be held Saturday at a church in Ohio.

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  Apr 10, 2021

  Canadian church shut down, fenced off for not complying with COVID-19 lockdown orders

  Police in Canada have placed metal fencing around a church that's led by a pastor who was jailed for holding worship services that violated provincial lockdown rules in order to physically shut it down until it “can demonstrate the ability to comply” with the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.

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  Apr 10, 2021

  Biden launches commission to look into packing Supreme Court

  President Biden has created a 180-day commission to consider adding seats to the U.S. Supreme Court or setting term limits for justices, a move that some have warned could lead to “irreversible damage.”

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  Apr 9, 2021

  China's communist regime is detaining Christians in mobile brainwashing camps: report

  Christians in at least one province of China are being held in secretive, mobile brainwashing camps to pressure them to renounce their faith which appears to be part of a planned clampdown on illegal social organizations, including house churches, according to reports.

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  Apr 7, 2021

  20K displaced as Myanmar airstrikes target ethnic Karen civilians, destroy homes

  At least 20,000 people from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic group, many of whom are Christian, have been displaced due to continual airstrikes that began on March 27, two months after the military coup. A rights organization reports that military forces are also bombarding civilians in their homes. 

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  Apr 5, 2021

  J&J takes over vaccine plant where 15M of its doses were contaminated in mixup with AstraZeneca

  The Biden administration has stopped the production of the Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine at a plant in Baltimore after a contract manufacturer mixed up ingredients from the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, spoiling millions of doses of the latter's vaccine.

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  Apr 5, 2021

  Warnock deletes tweet claiming people can save themselves, Easter transcends Jesus' resurrection

  Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democratic U.S. senator from Georgia and pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, has removed a controversial Easter tweet stating that even non-Christians can save themselves by doing good.

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  Apr 4, 2021

  Christians in Indian village beaten, forced to reconvert to tribal religions

  Christian families in a village in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh fled after villagers belonging to a tribal religion ostracized and threatened to kill them if they did not convert back to their ancestral religion, but the 10 Christians who could not flee were beaten and forced to “reconvert,” according to a report.

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  Apr 4, 2021

  Church accuses London police of ‘brutally exceeding their powers’ after shutting down service

  Police in Britain shut down a Good Friday service at a Roman Catholic church in London, claiming violation of COVID-19 rules, and threatened to impose a fine of $280 on each person sitting on the pews, according to media reports.

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  Apr 4, 2021

  Rare coin from 2nd Temple period discovered in Jerusalem’s Tower of David

  Archeologists in Jerusalem’s Old City have discovered a box containing artifacts including a rare silver “Tyre Coin,” which, they believe, might have been used by pilgrims to pay the Temple tax during the reign of King Herod.