Anugrah Kumar

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  Apr 18, 2021

  Court grants Alberta’s request not to show evidence for health order at Pastor James Coates’ trial

  A Canadian court ruled earlier this week that the government of Alberta will not be required to show scientific evidence backing up its COVID-19 restrictions during the upcoming trial of Pastor James Coates, who was arrested and jailed for holding in-person worship gatherings. 

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  Apr 18, 2021

  Iran releases Christian convert imprisoned for ‘membership in evangelistic group’

  Authorities in Iran released 37-year-old Christian convert Majidreza Souzanchi from prison after he tested positive for COVID-19. Souzanchi had been arrested in 2017 for his association with a house church and being involved in evangelism. He was released from Tehran Greater Prison about four months earlier than expected.

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  Apr 18, 2021

  Ole Anthony of Trinity Foundation, ‘nemesis of televangelists,’ dies at 82

  Ole Anthony, president of the Dallas, Texas-based televangelist accountability group Trinity Foundation and a small congregation that modeled itself on first-century Christianity in lifestyle and mission, died at the age of 82, the church announced.

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  Apr 18, 2021

  Tennessee church celebrates over 1,000 baptisms in 4 months; pastor stresses need for 'silence and solitude'

  Pastor Robby Gallaty said his church has baptized more than 1,000 people from 15 different states over the last four months after he went through a year of “silence and solitude.”

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  Apr 17, 2021

  Eritrea: 13 Christians remain imprisoned after 2 raids on prayer meetings

  Thirteen Eritrean Christians remain imprisoned after authorities raided two separate prayer meetings last month where 35 people were taken into custody, including several women. 

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  Apr 17, 2021

  Biden admin. reverses Trump-era ban on fetal tissue research

  The National Institutes of Health on Friday decided to disband an independent advisory board that reviews applications for federal funding of projects outside the NIH that use fetal tissue from aborted babies in their research. The advisory board was established two years ago by former President Donald Trump.

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  Apr 17, 2021

  Biden changes plans on refugee cap after swift condemnation from progressives, Christian groups

  The White House said late Friday that President Joe Biden will increase the cap on refugee admissions for the rest of this fiscal year by May 15, following backlash from progressives and Christian groups after it was first announced that his administration would keep the resettlement cap at 15,000. 

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  Apr 12, 2021

  8 Christians kidnapped from Nigerian church bus released: 'Glory be to Jesus'

  Eight members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God who were abducted by gunmen last month while traveling on a bus to a church program in the Kaduna state of northwest Nigeria have been freed.

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  Apr 12, 2021

  Wife of slain Arkansas pastor formally charged with his murder; 911 call released

  Kristie Evans, the wife of the late Pastor David Evans of Harmony Free Will Baptist Church in Arkansas, has been formally charged with first-degree murder after confessing to plotting his murder with a man she spent three nights with while her husband was on a mission trip.

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  Apr 12, 2021

  Christian doctor who wrote about presence of angels, fragility of life killed in SC mass shooting

  Dr. Robert D. Lesslie, a 70-year-old physician who wrote books about the presence of angels, was killed along with his wife, Barbara, and two grandchildren in last week's mass shooting committed by former NFL player Phillip Adams.