Anugrah Kumar

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  Feb 24, 2020

  Disney-Pixar featuring first LGBT character in ‘Onward’

  The upcoming film “Onward,” which will be in theaters on March 6, will feature a self-identified lesbian heroine with a girlfriend, the first-ever animated LGBT character in the Disney-Pixar universe.

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  Feb 24, 2020

  Tens of thousands greet Trump in his first official visit to India; religious freedom on agenda

  U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in the west Indian city of Ahmedabad Monday, beginning his first official visit to India with the inauguration of the world’s largest cricket stadium. In his two-day visit, Trump is expected to raise several issues, including religious freedom, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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  Feb 23, 2020

  Evangelical Christian sues US Postal Service over mandatory work on Sundays

  An evangelical Christian in Pennsylvania has taken legal action against the U.S. Postal Service for forcing him to quit by requiring him to work on Sundays after the USPS partnered with Amazon for delivery.

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  Feb 23, 2020

  Scottish court orders venue to explain why it canceled Franklin Graham event

  Glasgow Sheriff Court has asked the Scottish Event Campus to explain by Feb. 27 why it canceled an event evangelist Franklin Graham was scheduled to hold at the venue.

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  Feb 23, 2020

  Nigeria: 5 churches burned, many Christians killed in Boko Haram invasion

  More than 100 Boko Haram militants opened fire sporadically and indiscriminately and set churches and houses on fire, killing many people, in the town of Garkida in Gombi area of the northeastern state of Adamawa, according to initial reports.

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  Feb 22, 2020

  Presbyterian church burned down by arsonists in civil war-ridden Cameroon

  A week after defense forces were accused of killing at least 32 people, including a pregnant woman and 14 children, in Cameroon’s civil war-ridden English-speaking region, a Presbyterian church was burnt to ashes.

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  Feb 22, 2020

  Cult church at center of coronavirus outbreak in South Korea is shuttered

  A young man was seen putting “no entry” signs on the doors of a church that is seen as a cult that is at the center of South Korea’s largest coronavirus outbreak in the southeastern city of Daegu, as all of its 9,000 members remained inside their homes Friday amid reports of 142 new cases of the virus, bringing the total in that country to 346.

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  Feb 22, 2020

  Syria: 500,000 children among nearly 1 million displaced as fighting continues

  At least 500,000 children are among the more than 800,000 people, including Christians, who have been displaced over the last two-and-a-half months as the Bashar al-Assad regime carries on with its attacks in the last remaining rebel-held enclaves in northwest Syria amid very cold weather and rains.

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  Feb 17, 2020

  Iranian Christian convert fears execution if deported for giving wrong answers on Bible quiz

  A 38-year-old Christian convert, who says he would face imprisonment, execution and separation from his British wife and daughter if deported to Iran, has once again applied for asylum to the U.K.’s Home Office

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  Feb 17, 2020

  Kentucky to pay atheist over $150K for rejecting 'IM GOD' license plate

  A federal judge ruled last week that the state of Kentucky violated the First Amendment by denying an atheist a license plate saying “IM GOD,” and has ordered the state to pay more than $150,000 in legal fees to the attorneys who represented the lawsuit.