Anugrah Kumar

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  Oct 17, 2025

  Armenia arrests bishop, 12 clergymen as feud between church leaders, PM deepens

  A bishop in Armenia’s Apostolic Church and 12 clergymen have been arrested as part of a widening rift between church leaders and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government. The arrests are the latest in a string of detentions targeting clergy critical of the administration.

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  Oct 14, 2025

  Turkey labels Christians ‘national security threat’ to deport them, rights group warns

  Turkey has been deporting hundreds of foreign Christians and blocking their return by labeling them national security threats, according to an international legal advocacy group.

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  Oct 13, 2025

  Advocates warn EU commission against law that would silence speech in US, globally

  More than 100 free speech advocates, including former U.S. and European officials, have urged the European Commission to reconsider a key internet regulation that they say risks censoring global speech and undermining international free expression rights.

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  Oct 13, 2025

  Church leaders warn UK gov’t its ‘conversion therapy’ ban would make the Gospel ‘illegal’

  Senior Christian leaders in the U.K. have warned that a proposed ban on so-called conversion therapy would criminalize core elements of Christian belief.

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  Oct 13, 2025

  Man pulls down pants to urinate on altar at St. Peter’s Basilica in front of tourists

  A man climbed onto the central altar at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on Friday and urinated in full view of tourists. The act was captured on video by onlookers and quickly drew the attention of plainclothes police and Vatican security.

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  Oct 13, 2025

  Trump State Dept. demands China release detained underground church pastor, father of US citizens

  The Trump administration has called for the immediate release of an underground church pastor detained in China whose children are American citizens. The State Department’s demand follows a sweeping crackdown by Chinese authorities on unregistered religious groups.

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  Oct 12, 2025

  Nigerian Anglican communion opposes leftward drift of CoF with election of Sarah Mullally

  The Church of Nigeria has publicly rejected the election of a woman as the new archbishop of Canterbury, saying it marks a deeper shift by the Church of England away from biblical teaching.

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  Oct 12, 2025

  Pastor falsely imprisoned 13 years dies 3 days after acquittal on blasphemy charge

  Zafar Bhatti, a Christian pastor in Pakistan who spent 13 years in prison on a false blasphemy conviction, died of cardiac arrest just three days after his acquittal. He had returned home after being cleared by a high court, but collapsed before his family could make arrangements for medical care.

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  Oct 8, 2025

  Thousands of churches expected to close in UK over next 5 years: study

  Thousands of churches across the United Kingdom are at risk of shutting down over the next five years, according to a new survey. The findings point to a continuing decline in church viability driven by financial strain, location and denominational pressures.

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  Oct 6, 2025

  ‘Open morgue’: Christian groups call for safe passage of civilians trapped in Sudan’s North Darfur

  At least 260,000 civilians remain trapped in Sudan’s El Fasher city, the last government stronghold in Darfur, amid reports of indiscriminate shelling, mass killings and the occupation of churches by fighters. Christian groups are calling for the immediate creation of evacuation corridors and safe passage for those surrounded by the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF.