Anugrah Kumar

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  Nov 22, 2021

  Gen Z's use of TikTok surpasses Instagram, Snapchat as kids find platform 'fun,' 'positive': study

  Children and teens between the ages of 12 and 17 are now using the China-based video-sharing social media platform TikTok more than Instagram and Snapchat, a new research report suggests.

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  Nov 22, 2021

  India: Over 50 churches stop holding worship services after authorities impose ban on Christian gatherings

  More than 50 house churches in India were not allowed to hold worship services for a third consecutive Sunday after authorities imposed a complete ban on Christian religious gatherings at the behest of radical Hindu nationalist groups, according to a report.

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  Nov 22, 2021

  2 kidnapped missionaries freed in Haiti, Christian Aid Ministries says

  Two of the 17 members of a missionary group — comprising mostly Americans and five children — who were kidnapped in Haiti more than a month ago have been released, says the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries, which sent them on the mission trip.

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  Nov 21, 2021

  Christian students in Egypt beaten at school, ordered by teachers to remove all jewelry bearing a cross

  Coptic students at an elementary and middle school in Egypt’s Minya Governorate were beaten up by teachers and fellow students after the headmaster ordered all Christian students to remove any jewelry bearing a cross.

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  Nov 21, 2021

  NYC pastor who ran over, used machete to hack estranged wife to death pleads guilty

  A New York pastor who ran over his estranged wife with her car and then repeatedly attacked her with a machete in front of neighbors and her grandchildren has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, according to prosecutors.

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  Nov 21, 2021

  Asylum seekers getting Christian tattoos of Jesus to bolster conversion claims, stay in UK

  Asylum seekers in the United Kingdom are getting tattoos of crucifixes and Jesus to falsely claim they are converts to Christianity to bolster their case to attain British citizenship which some suggest could be the reason why the Liverpool bomber in last week’s attack was identified as a Christian convert.

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  Nov 20, 2021

  Christian nurses' bail 'kept secret' in blasphemy case to protect women from radical Islamist attacks

  A trial court judge in Pakistan granted bail to two Christian nurses, who were charged with “defiling the Quran,” two months ago but the decision was kept secret to avoid Islamist backlash, according to the defendants’ lawyer.

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  Nov 20, 2021

  Ugandan pastor slain by Muslims in anti-Christian attack in front of daughter: 'You will face the wrath from Allah'

  Islamic extremists in an eastern Uganda district accused a 58-year-old Christian pastor of being an “infidel, who had harmed the religion of Allah” for refusing to remove his church building. Wielding long knives and blunt objects, the men attacked the pastor in front of his daughter, who fled the scene to report the crime to police, according to reports.

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  Nov 20, 2021

  Church employee sentenced to over 5 years in prison for embezzling $450K from congregation

  A 52-year-old Texas woman has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in federal prison, as part of a plea deal, for using more than $450,000 from church funds for personal expenses, the Department of Justice said.

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  Nov 16, 2021

  Family of 12-y-o Christian girl held captive by Muslim man in Pakistan fear she's being forced into Islamic marriage

  The family of a 12-year-old Christian girl from Pakistan’s Punjab province who was abducted by a Muslim man earlier this month fears she's been forcefully converted to Islam and married to her abductor, just as many other girls have been in the past.