Anugrah Kumar

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  Aug 24, 2020

  250,000 people asked to flee California’s biggest-ever wildfires 

  California’s biggest-ever wildfires have killed at least five people, damaged or destroyed more than 3,100 structures and burned more than one million acres, putting nearly a quarter-million people under evacuation orders and warnings, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

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  Aug 24, 2020

  ‘We’re standing in defense against gov’t overreach,’ Pastor Rob McCoy says after court ruling 

  After a court held Pastor Rob McCoy and his California church, Godspeak Calvary Chapel, in contempt for failing to obey a COVID-19-related restraining order prohibiting indoor worship services, the pastor said it was a small price to pay to stand “in defense of a government’s overreach.”

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  Aug 23, 2020

  5 trends changing pastors’ outreach to millennials, Gen Z: Barna

  Millennials and Generation Z are facing some of the greatest challenges at this moment thanks to the disruption and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing demonstrations for racial justice. Engaging with and discipling teens and young adults can be equally challenging. Here are five trends about these generations, according to a Barna analysis.

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  Aug 23, 2020

  Pastor Andy Stanley explains why North Point is suspending services until 2021

  Responding to some members who accused him of “bowing to Caesar,” Pastor Andy Stanley of Atlanta’s North Point Community Church explained why his church decided to suspend services until 2021. The decision, he said, is not “left-wing, Marxist agenda,” but based on what’s central to the Christian faith.

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  Aug 23, 2020

  Turkey’s Erdogan orders historic church be turned into mosque for Muslim prayers

  About a month after converting Istanbul’s landmark Hagia Sophia into a Muslim house of prayer, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has now ordered another ancient Orthodox church to be turned into a mosque.

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  Aug 22, 2020

  Pro-life groups laud Trump ethics board for rejecting fetal tissue research proposals

  Pro-life groups praised the Trump administration this week after a federal ethics advisory board recommended against federal funding of fetal tissue research, saying tiny humans should not be aborted for exploitation.

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  Aug 22, 2020

  Pastor, 10 others slaughtered by radical Muslim Fulani Herders in Nigeria

  In yet another series of attacks on Christians in Nigeria, armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen this week killed 11 people, including a 16-year-old girl, a father of nine, and a church pastor.

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  Aug 22, 2020

  Trump blasts Democratic Convention as being 4 straight days of attacks on America

  President Donald Trump on Friday responded to the 2020 Democratic National Convention, saying it was “the darkest and angriest and gloomiest convention” in America’s history and warned that if former Vice President Joe Biden gets elected, “China will own our country.”

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  Aug 17, 2020

  Christians battling land-grabbers in Beirut after explosion leaves 300K families displaced

  The blast in Beirut earlier this month has not only killed some 200 people and displaced about 300,000 families but also threatens to change the demography of Christian districts as land-grabbers are seeking to take advantage of the grim situation.

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  Aug 17, 2020

  Search continues for missing pastor’s wife Marilane Carter; police call it 'strange' case

  Police in Overland Park, Kansas, released details in the case of missing 36-year-old Marilane Carter, the wife of Pastor Adam Carter of Leawood Baptist Church. She was last seen on Aug. 3 while en route to Alabama in her car to visit her sister and seek treatment for mental health issues.