Anugrah Kumar

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  Oct 24, 2020

  Franklin Graham, SBC leaders react to pope’s same-sex civil union comments

  Evangelist Franklin Graham and leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have responded to Pope Francis’ endorsement of same-sex civil unions, calling it “unthinkable in light of the Word of God” and explaining that no pope or priest gets to “define sexuality or the family.”

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  Oct 19, 2020

  China threatens to detain Americans as ‘hostage diplomacy’ tactic

  China’s communist officials are pressuring the U.S. Department of Justice to stop prosecuting suspicious Chinese scholars in American courts by threatening to detain Americans in China, according to a report.

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  Oct 19, 2020

  Lakewood Church returns to in-person worship after 7 months

  Lakewood Church in Texas reopened its doors for its first in-person worship service on Sunday since the COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions began in March. An emotional Pastor Joel Osteen spoke about reigning over problems to more than 4,000 people.

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  Oct 19, 2020

  Trump attends Las Vegas church, pastor prophesies second win

  President Donald Trump attended the Sunday morning service at International Church of Las Vegas, where Senior Associate Pastor Denise Goulet prophesied a second presidential win for him.

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  Oct 18, 2020

  Wikipedia bans editors from expressing support for traditional marriage

  Wikipedia has decided to restrict its editors from expressing opposition to same-sex marriage on its platform ­— a decision that comes months after co-founder Larry Sanger said the site’s neutrality policy was “dead.”

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  Oct 18, 2020

  Samaritan’s Purse deploys emergency field hospital to Bahamas amid coronavirus crisis

  After treating hundreds of COVID-19 patients in New York and Italy, Samaritan’s Purse is now building an emergency field hospital in Nassau in the Bahamas at the request of the Bahamian prime minister and has deployed a disaster assistance response team there, the evangelical ministry has announced.

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  Oct 17, 2020

  Overdose deaths up 73% in Ohio county amid COVID-19 lockdowns

  In just one county in Ohio, 437 people have died of an overdose in the first six months of this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic that led to a government-mandated lockdown and the closing of businesses. 

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  Oct 17, 2020

  2 arrested in murder of Florida Pastor Gregory Boyd, 1 suspect still at large

  Police in Miami, Florida, have arrested two people who've confessed to the fatal shooting of Pastor Gregory Boyd, leader of New Birth Harvest Outreach Ministries Churches of Deliverance. The suspects are facing charges of first-degree murder.

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  Oct 17, 2020

  University rescinds transgender sports policy amid DOE investigation into Title IX violations

  Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire decided to rescind its transgender sports participation and inclusion policy as it was being investigated for Title IX violations, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights said Friday.

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  Oct 17, 2020

  Teacher 'beheaded' in France after free speech lesson showing caricature of Islamic prophet Muhammad

  France has launched a terror investigation into the murder of a teacher who was shot dead and decapitated near Paris after he showed his class a caricature of the Islamic prophet Muhammad from the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo as part of a lesson on free speech.