Anugrah Kumar

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  Jan 25, 2021

  33 missing children rescued in major human trafficking investigation in California

  During a human trafficking investigation in California, called “Operation Lost Angels,” the FBI recovered 33 missing children, eight of whom had been sexually exploited, the agency said.

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  Jan 25, 2021

  Boston can reject Christian flag at City Hall, 1st Circuit rules

  The city of Boston, Massachusetts, can stop a citizen from flying a Christian flag over City Hall, the First Circuit ruled on Friday. The petitioners say they will go to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that censoring a private flag because it contains a cross amounts to violation of the First Amendment.

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  Jan 24, 2021

  9th Circuit upholds California's ban on indoor worship despite causing 'irreparable harm'

  The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a San Diego area church’s request to overturn California’s COVID-19 restrictions on indoor worship gatherings although it acknowledged that the congregation is suffering “irreparable harm” due to the temporary ban.

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  Jan 24, 2021

  FBI investigates explosion at California church labeled 'hate group' by SPLC

  The FBI is investigating after an explosive device was thrown at a southern California church on Saturday, weeks after it was threatened with an arson attack over its pastor’s views and harsh rhetoric toward the LGBT community.

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  Jan 23, 2021

  Christian leaders demand Cuban authorities release pastor arrested for leading ‘illegal' church

  Christian leaders are calling on the communist government of Cuba to immediately release Pastor Karel Parra Rosabal, who heads an unregistered church and was arrested on false charges of “hoarding.” He's been held in detention for 11 days.

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  Jan 23, 2021

  Biden vows to ‘codify’ Roe v. Wade on 48th anniversary of abortion ruling

  While more than 62 million lives have been lost to abortion since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the Biden administration announced on the judgment’s 48th anniversary Friday that it will back abortion with a codified federal law in the event the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the ruling.

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  Jan 23, 2021

  Pakistan: Police drop charges against Muslim man who kidnapped, shackled Christian girl in cattle pen

  Police in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province have withdrawn criminal charges against three Muslim men accused of abducting a 12-year-old Christian girl who was forced to marry one of the accused, tortured and chained up in a cattle pen for up to five months.

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  Jan 18, 2021

  Radical Hindu leader threatens violence unless churches in tribal areas are shut down

  As part of Hindu nationalists’ ongoing campaign to stop India’s tribal, or indigenous, people from converting to Christianity, a rightwing Hindu leader has demanded that all churches be closed down in a district in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

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  Jan 18, 2021

  750 killed at Ethiopian Orthodox church said to contain Ark of the Covenant: report

  Around 750 people were killed in an attack on an Orthodox church, which is said to contain the Ark of the Covenant described in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, in northern Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region — home to thousands of churches and monasteries — according to reports.

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  Jan 18, 2021

  Kamala Harris to use Bible owned by first black Supreme Court justice at swearing-in ceremony

  When she takes the oath of office at her swearing-in ceremony Wednesday, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will use a Bible previously owned by the first black member of the Supreme Court, the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, whom she has described as one of her “greatest heroes.”