Anugrah Kumar

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  Jan 25, 2020

  Denver school board votes to require gender neutral bathrooms in all public schools

  A new school board for Denver Public Schools unanimously passed a resolution in its first meeting requiring all district schools to have at least one all-gender bathroom. The board has also made it mandatory for staff to use students’ preferred names and pronouns irrespective of their official names or gender.

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  Jan 25, 2020

  Iran sentences Christian convert to prison on charge of ‘insulting Islamic beliefs’

  A court in Iran has sentenced a 65-year-old convert to Christianity to three years in prison for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs” even as he is yet to be tried in the court for two other charges, a religious freedom watchdog group has reported.

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  Aug 6, 2018

  Facebook Blocks Republican Congressional Candidate Ad

  Facebook has restricted Republican congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng's campaign from placing a video ad, deeming it too "shocking, disrespectful or sensational" because it features her American immigrant parents, who survived brutalities by the Khmer Rouge communists during the Cambodian Civil War.

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  Aug 6, 2018

  Trump Admin. Seizing Bibles, Violating Religious Freedom of Detained Immigrants, ACLU Says

  Immigration and prison officials have seized Bibles and other holy books from immigrants detained at a federal prison in California, where they are being subjected to dangerous and inhumane conditions with no freedom to practice their respective faiths, the American Civil Liberties Union says in a lawsuit.

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  Aug 5, 2018

  Church Votes to Leave Scottish Episcopal Church Over Same-Sex Marriage Support

  An evangelical parish with a large congregation in Edinburgh has voted to quit the Scottish Episcopal Church over its decision to be the United Kingdom's first Anglican body to endorse same-sex marriage.

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  Aug 5, 2018

  Famed Atheist Lawrence Krauss Removed From ASU's Origins Project Over Sexual Misconduct Claims

  Physicist and skeptic author Lawrence Krauss has been ousted as the director of Arizona State University's Origins Project over recent allegations of sexual misconduct.

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  Aug 4, 2018

  Church Employee Charged With Stealing Over $100K From Maryland Congregation

  A Maryland woman has been charged with embezzling more than $100,000 from her church in a scheme that lasted several months.

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  Aug 4, 2018

  Judge Orders Pastor Paula White to Pay Woman Over $13,000 in Copyright Lawsuit

  A U.S. District Court in Florida has ordered Pastor Paula White to pay $13,707 to a woman for causing "emotional harm" by suing her for copyright infringement after she posted videos criticizing her church and ministries.

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  Aug 2, 2018

  Bible Gateway Lists Top 10 Searches Among 14 Billion Views in 25 Years

  On its 25th anniversary, the online scripture resource Bible Gateway declares it has been viewed more than 14 billion times and reveals what its top 10 keyword searches and top five Bible verses searched and shared by its users are.

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  Aug 2, 2018

  Planet Fitness Loses Appeal Against Woman Who Lost Membership for Opposing Trans Locker Room Policy

  A Michigan appeals court has ruled in favor of a woman who filed a lawsuit against Planet Fitness' transgender-friendly locker room policy after her membership was revoked following her complaint about a man walking into the women's locker room while she was getting undressed.