Anugrah Kumar

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  Sep 20, 2026

  Another Baptist pastor shot dead in Myanmar; US gov’t urged to take action

  Myanmar’s military junta has shot and killed a Baptist pastor in the Christian-majority Chin state, the third killing of a pastor there in about three and a half months, according to a religious freedom group that is pressing the U.S. government to act.

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  Sep 17, 2026

  Christian parents demand return of teenage son forcibly converted to Islam

  In Pakistan’s Punjab province, the Christian parents of 15-year-old Sagar Masih are appealing for his return, saying he was pressured into converting to Islam at a factory job. A rights group says the case is one of a growing number of similar reports involving underage Christian boys in that country.

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  Sep 16, 2026

  Lawyer at firm defending Zion Church pastors escapes to Taiwan amid crackdown

  Ruth Wang, a partner at a law firm representing pastors from Beijing’s Zion Church, among China's largest underground congregations, has fled the country with her husband and two children as Chinese authorities pressured the firm to dissolve.

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  Sep 15, 2026

  Virginia family killed in car crash after leaving DC church; 2 charged

  Marlysha Liddell, her husband, Paul, and their daughter, four-year-old Leilani, died Sunday afternoon in a fiery crash on Interstate 66 as they drove home to Manassas, Virginia, after attending church in Washington.

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  Sep 14, 2026

  'Height of injustice': Christian family forced to observe Hindu rituals at relative’s funeral

  A Christian family in India’s Chhattisgarh state was pressured by villagers into conducting Hindu funeral rites for a dead relative after residents refused to allow a burial under her own faith.

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  Sep 14, 2026

  Pastor who suffered a stroke in ICE custody has been released

  Gabriel Johnson, a Liberian-born pastor living in North Carolina who suffered a stroke while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month, has left immigration detention and is headed to a rehabilitation hospital offering round-the-clock care.

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  Sep 14, 2026

  China releases pastor tortured in detention, accused of 'endangering national security'

  Chinese authorities have released a pastor who was reportedly tortured in detention and accused of endangering national security, more than four years after opening a case against him and two co-defendants over their unregistered church.

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  Sep 12, 2026

  Pastors report being attacked at home by ‘LGBTQ left-wing activists’ who threatened to kill them

  A married couple who serve as pastors at the same church, along with two close relatives, say four “LGBTQ left-wing activists” attacked their family home in Sydney, Australia, and threatened to kill them days after their address was posted online.

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  Sep 12, 2026

  Scantily-clad trans activist wielding crucifix rips out pages of the Bible at 9/11 protest

  A trans-identified performance artist tore pages from a Bible and read aloud from the book of Micah during a counter-protest outside New York City Hall on Friday, the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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  Sep 7, 2026

  Church mistaken for JP Miller’s church after Netflix series faces protests, backlash

  A South Carolina church has come under protest and received a wave of hostile contacts after being wrongly linked to the Myrtle Beach pastor whose wife’s death is now the focus of a new Netflix documentary series.