Anugrah Kumar

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  Jul 13, 2020

  Gunmen kill at least 5 at South African megachurch, create ‘hostage situation’

  At least four people were shot and burnt to death while another was fatally shot at a Pentecostal megachurch that has more than a million members after gunmen stormed its headquarters near Johannesburg and allegedly held about 200 congregants, including women and children, at ransom for hours.

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  Jul 12, 2020

  Pastor Miles McPherson speaks on the ‘third option’ to fight racism

  Pastor Miles McPherson of California’s Rock Church on Saturday spoke at the National Weekend of Action for Faith & Prejudice, a movement to demonstrate faith in God through confronting and dismantling racism, where he talked about the “third option,” based on his book.

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  Jul 12, 2020

  International evangelist Morris Cerullo dies at 88

  International Pentecostal evangelist Morris Cerullo died at the age of 88 on Saturday, the day after his family said he was being treated for pneumonia at a hospital in California.

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  Jul 12, 2020

  Millions of children forced into labor as COVID-19 creates global hunger crisis: World Vision

  The COVID-19 pandemic has caused at least 110 million children to go hungry and pushed 8 million others into child labor and begging, according to assessments in 24 countries across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia by evangelical Christian humanitarian aid organization World Vision.

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  Jul 11, 2020

  Televangelists receive millions in PPP loans, Catholic Church got $1.4 billion

  More than 10,000 religious organizations, including a few televangelists, have received over $3 billion under the federal Paycheck Protection Program, a large chunk of which went to groups affiliated with the Catholic Church, according to a partial list of recipients released this week.

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  Jul 11, 2020

  Secular group critical of churches taking PPP loans admits to also taking under $500K

  The Freedom from Religion Foundation, which has been critical of churches being among the recipients of forgivable loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program, admitted that it, too, took a loan “of less than half a million dollars” after a partial list of borrowers was released this week.

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  Jul 11, 2020

  ‘It’s a slap in the face,’ pastor says after seeing desecration of escaped slave statue

  After a 170-year old New Albany church in Indiana saw its statue honoring a woman who escaped slavery after the Civil War defaced with “BLM” graffiti, its pastor spoke out, calling the vandalism “a slap in the face to everybody.”

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  Jul 11, 2020

  Turkey orders Hagia Sophia, ancient seat of eastern Christianity, be turned into mosque

  Religious and political leaders worldwide on Friday criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for officially declaring that the Hagia Sophia site, one of the world's most prominant Christian cathedrals, is now a mosque open to Muslim worship.

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  Jul 6, 2020

  Erdogan signals support to turn Hagia Sophia, 6th century seat of Eastern Christianity, back into mosque

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in favor of turning Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia back into a mosque as a court is expected to decide within 15 days the fate of the Unesco world heritage site, which was the seat of Eastern Christianity for 900 years before being converted into an Ottoman mosque and then into a museum.

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  Jul 6, 2020

  Herman Cain progressing in COVID-19 recovery; prayers 'making a difference'

  Former Republican presidential candidate and businessman Herman Cain is still hospitalized with COVID-19 but “making progress” as prayers are “making a difference,” his team stated in an update Sunday.