Anugrah Kumar

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  May 8, 2022

  Islamic militants kill 8 Christians, including children, in Nigeria

  Radical Islamic militants killed at least eight Christians, including children younger than 5, and wounded several others in an attack in Nigeria’s Borno state, according to reports.

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  May 7, 2022

  Satanic Temple pushes Boston to fly its flag after Supreme Court ruling in favor of Christian group

  Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Boston City, Massachusetts, was wrong to prohibit a group from flying a Christian flag at city hall, The Satanic Temple wants to fly a flag over the downtown building.

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  May 7, 2022

  French Guyana: Pastor shot dead, church set on fire after meeting delegation of Evangelicals

  The pastor of an Evangelical church in French Guyana was shot to death and his church burned down the day after he met with a delegation from the National Council of Evangelicals in France that was visiting to discuss the implementation of a law on “separatism,” according to a report.

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  May 5, 2022

  Sudanese couple face flogging for ‘adultery' after court nullifies marriage over Christian conversion

  A young Christian couple in Sudan, who have two children, face 100 lashes on charges of “adultery” after a Sharia (Islamic law) court canceled their marriage due to the husband’s conversion to Christianity, according to a report.

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  May 2, 2022

  Protestant families may be forced to pay illegal fines in Mexico over refusal to participate in festival

  Several Protestant Christian families in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas may have to pay illegal fines for the fourth consecutive year if they do not participate in an upcoming syncretic Roman Catholic festival that involves alcohol, according to a persecution watchdog.

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  May 2, 2022

  Christian group laments Church of Scotland presbyteries drift toward allowing gay marriage ahead of vote

  A Christian group based in the U.K. says it’s “very sad” that a majority of presbyteries of the Church of Scotland have supported the proposed approval of same-sex weddings in its churches ahead of the upcoming General Assembly.

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  May 2, 2022

  ‘Talking Jesus’ report finds only 6% of UK adults identify as practicing Christians

  Only 6% of adults in the United Kingdom identify as practicing Christians, while 42% say they are non-practicing Christians, and one in three non-Christians say they want to know more about Jesus Christ, according to the findings of a recent survey, Talking Jesus.

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  May 1, 2022

  Oklahoma becomes first state to ban nonbinary gender X option on birth certificates 

  Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed into law a bill that bans nonbinary identification of residents on their government-issued documents, making his state the first in the nation to require birth certificates to indicate only male or female as a person’s biological sex.

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  Apr 30, 2022

  Coptic Christian shot dead at work, assailants set fire to his car and flee

  Four unidentified masked men barged into the shop of a young Coptic man in the city of Dabaa in Egypt, shot him in the head 22 times, killing him on the spot, and burned his car before fleeing the scene.

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  Apr 30, 2022

  China shuts down popular Christian website amid crackdown on religious groups

  The latest victim of the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing crackdown against Christianity in cyberspace is a well-known Christian website which has disappeared after serving believers for about 21 years, according to a report.