Anugrah Kumar

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  Jun 27, 2021

  Billy Graham trauma chaplains, Christian groups bring comfort to distraught families of 150 missing in Florida tower collapse

  As rescue crews carry on with their search for survivors, trauma counselors with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team and other Christian groups are ministering to the families of 150 people who remain missing and nine people who have died after a 12-story beachfront condo building in Florida partially collapsed Thursday night.

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  Jun 24, 2021

  Pakistani Christian girl forced to convert to Islam, kept as ‘slave’ cook

  A Muslim couple in Pakistan’s Punjab province forcibly converted a 13-year-old Christian girl to Islam so that she could work as a cook in their kitchen and touch utensils and food items. Now they are refusing to allow her to return home to her parents unless they pay a ransom, according to a report.

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  Jun 22, 2021

  China’s state-sanctioned churches to celebrate Communist Party’s centennial

  In the run-up to the Chinese Communist Party’s planned celebrations to mark 100 years of its existence on July 1, churches affiliated with the government are organizing and participating in events that seek to glorify the single-party rule that has persecuted religious communities.

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  Jun 21, 2021

  Christians, religious minorities protest establishment of Islam as state religion in Bangladesh

  Christians and other religious minorities in Bangladesh recently took part in the annual “Black Day” protest against the 1988 constitutional amendments that established Islam as the state religion, leading to persecution and discrimination against non-Muslims in the Muslim-majority country.

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  Jun 21, 2021

  Democrat warns Catholic Church it may be stripped of tax-exempt status if politicians denied communion

  As U.S. Catholic bishops draft a controversial document on whether priests can deny communion to politicians who support abortion, one House Democrat has implied that the Catholic Church should lose its tax-exempt status if churches institute such a ban.

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  Jun 21, 2021

  8 churches damaged in last month amid Myanmar conflict; priest abducted as army raids parish

  At least eight churches have been attacked and five civilians killed in less than 30 days in eastern Myanmar, where hostilities between the Buddhist-majority country’s army and local militias have increased since the military coup on Feb. 1.

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  Jun 20, 2021

  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis beats Trump in 2024 presidential straw poll

  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis received more votes than former President Donald Trump in a non-partisan straw poll asking voters about their preferred presidential candidate for the 2024 election at the Western Conservative Summit, one of the largest annual gatherings of conservatives.

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  Jun 20, 2021

  Christian pastor killed over outreach to Muslims: ‘Today Allah has judged you’

  A radical Muslim has confessed to police in Uganda that he killed a 70-year-old pastor earlier this month because of Allah’s word to kill all infidels who mislead Muslims by sharing the Gospel.

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  Jun 19, 2021

  UK Christian group ‘alarmed’ by push to criminalize prayer in ‘conversion therapy’ ban

  A Christian group in the U.K. has said it is alarming that the government is being urged to include in its proposed "conversion therapy" ban even “gentle non-coercive prayer” to help individuals overcome unwanted sexual attractions or gender identity confusion.

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  Jun 19, 2021

  Bible withdrawn from UK auction after Ethiopia demands its return

  An auction house in the U.K. has withdrawn a leather-bound Coptic Bible from auction after the Ethiopian embassy in London identified it as one of the artifacts looted by British forces from the Ethiopian empire’s fortress at Magdala during the colonial era and requested its repatriation.