Anugrah Kumar

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  Oct 25, 2021

  17 Coptic Christians go missing in Libya, fears rise over possible abduction by terrorists

  At least 17 Egyptian Coptic Christians have gone missing in Libya, and it's feared an armed group might have abducted them in the north African country where 21 Coptic Christians were beheaded by ISIS in 2015.

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  Oct 25, 2021

  Father gets 11 years in prison for drowning daughter in church baptismal pool

  A judge in northern California has sentenced a man to 11 years in prison for drowning his 4-year-old daughter in the baptismal pool of a Catholic church while high on methamphetamine.

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  Oct 25, 2021

  Biden State Dept. increases number of Americans left behind in Afghanistan

  The Biden administration, which had been saying for weeks that the number of Americans still left behind in Afghanistan and urgently want to be evacuated was about 100, has now increased the number to about 200.

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  Oct 24, 2021

  India: Human rights groups document over 300 acts of Christian persecution in 2021

  Human rights groups in India say they have documented over 300 incidents of Christian persecution in just the first nine months of 2021, warning that this year might be the worst in terms of the number of such incidents in the country’s history.

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  Oct 23, 2021

  Archbishop Justin Welby, former PM Gordon Brown warn against legalizing assisted suicide

  The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the U.K.’s former Prime Minister Gordon Brown have warned that a proposed law to allow assisted suicide would “undermine the sanctity of life” and could pressure the frail and vulnerable to end their lives.

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  Oct 23, 2021

  Maryland pastor facing federal charges for arranging 60 fraudulent marriages in citizenship scheme

  A Maryland pastor was indicted this week for allegedly arranging fraudulent marriages of foreign nationals with American citizens to give them permanent residence in the United States in exchange for thousands of dollars, the Department of Justice says.

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  Oct 23, 2021

  Apple takes down Bible app in China to appease communist regime

  Apple has removed a popular Bible app and a Quran app in China after the communist country’s regime deemed that the apps violated local laws on hosting religious texts.

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  Oct 19, 2021

  7 pastors arrested in India on false charges of forced conversions

  Authorities in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh arrested seven pastors at a prayer meeting under the state’s “anti-conversion” law, which Christians have accused Hindu nationalists of using as a tool to persecute them.

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  Oct 18, 2021

  Haitian authorities identify gang behind the kidnapping of 17 missionaries

  Authorities in Haiti say that the gang behind the majority of abductions in the Caribbean nation between June and September is also responsible for Saturday’s kidnapping of 17 Christian missionaries.

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  Oct 18, 2021

  Police name suspect in David Amess murder as 25-year-old man on terror watch list

  Police have identified the suspect in the brutal murder of Conservative British MP Sir. David Amess as a 25-year-old “self-radicalized” man, Ali Harbi Ali, the son of a former prime ministerial adviser in Somalia.