Anugrah Kumar

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  May 31, 2020

  California churches detail Sunday reopening plans; Rick Warren says Saddleback will wait

  Pastor Greg Laurie’s Harvest Church and many other California’s megachurches are reopening on Pentecost Sunday with detailed plans to keep their congregations safe from COVID-19. But others, including Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, say they will wait for conditions to improve before resuming large gatherings.

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  May 31, 2020

  NAE calls on Christians to pause, mourn 100,000 COVID-19 deaths in US

  The National Association of Evangelicals is calling on Christians and churches to pause and lament the death of more than 100,000 Americans from COVID-19 on Pentecost Sunday.

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  May 30, 2020

  Minn. gov. issues 'full mobilization' of National Guard, says violent rioters are 'attacking civil society'

  Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday that the National Guard would be fully mobilized after another night of violent protests erupted in Minneapolis and St. Paul. "The situation in Minnesota is no longer in any way about the murder of George Floyd. It is about attacking civil society, instilling fear and disrupting our great cites," Walz said

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  May 30, 2020

  Supreme Court rejects Calif. church’s request to lift limits on in-person services ahead of Pentecost Sunday

  In a late-night 5-4 decision Friday, the Supreme Court rejected a California church’s request to set aside Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recently issued public-health guidelines that allow congregations to meet in person but limits attendance to 25% of the building’s capacity, with a maximum of 100 attendees.

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  May 25, 2020

  Mike Pompeo tells Greg Laurie he depends on God to help him protect Americans; pastor talks End Times

  In an interview with Pastor Greg Laurie, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he reads two books each morning — the Bible and the day's intelligence report.

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  May 25, 2020

  Wuhan pastor interrogated after Zoom evangelism event: 'I will only live for Christ'

  A local pastor in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the origin of the novel coronavirus, was taken away by police for interrogation while he was leading an online meeting of Christians on evangelism and church planting, according to the Chinese Christian Fellowship of Righteousness.

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  May 24, 2020

  Egypt gives legal status to 70 more churches, but threats to Christian houses of worship remain

  As a government committee headed by Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly gave legal status to 70 churches this week, the number of Christian houses of worship that have been legalized in the country came to 1,638. However, the threat to churches in this Muslim-majority country remains.

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  May 24, 2020

  20-y-o man with COVID-19 charged with 2 counts of assault in beating of elderly nursing home patient

  A 20-year-old man who was sent to a nursing home because he contracted COVID-19 was charged Sunday morning with two counts of "assault with intent to do great bodily harm" for repeatedly punching a 75-year-old patient who he was sharing a room with. 

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  May 24, 2020

  Sudan opens path toward religious freedom

  In what appears to be a promising positive change, Sudan’s transitional government and a rebel group that fought against the Muslim-majority country’s longtime authoritarian leader Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted last year, have agreed to form an independent national commission for religious freedom.

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  May 24, 2020

  Minn. allows all churches to reopen after Catholics, Lutherans threaten to defy orders

  Days after Minnesota’s Catholic and Lutheran churches publicly declared they would defy Gov. Tim Walz’s order restricting in-person services to not more than 10 people, the state has announced it is lifting that limitation to let larger groups gather for worship beginning Wednesday.