Anugrah Kumar

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  Mar 23, 2015

  20,000 People Attend Saddleback Church's 35th Anniversary; Rick Warren Says 'We Dared to Dream Big'

  At least 20,000 people filled California's Angel Stadium as Pastor Rick Warren's multi-site Saddleback Church celebrated its 35th year of ministry. The pastor and his wife, Kay, announced bigger plans as the megachurch moves into a new phase.

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  Mar 22, 2015

  PCUSA Church Ordains First Married Lesbian Couple as Ministers, Days After Denomination's Marriage Amendment

  Days after America's largest Presbyterian denomination approved an amendment to its constitution changing their definition of marriage to include same-sex couples, a lesbian couple will be ordained as ministers Sunday at First & Central Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware.

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  Mar 22, 2015

  Obama Urges Iran to Release Imprisoned Pastor Saeed Abedini in Press Statement

  President Obama again called on Iran to release U.S. Pastor Saeed Abedini, who has been in a jail for his Christian faith for nearly two-and-a-half years, as the Middle Eastern nation celebrates the Nowruz holiday, a festival of spring and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar.

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  Mar 21, 2015

  'Strip for Jesus'? Texas Church Says Billboard Has Spiritual Message

  A church in Manvel, Texas has surprised many by putting up signs and billboard that read, "Strip for Jesus." The church says it's a campaign with a spiritual message in advance of the coming Easter holiday.

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  Mar 21, 2015

  Petraeus: ISIS Is Not Biggest Threat to Iraq, but Iran's Shia Militias Controlled by Grand Ayatollah Sistani

  Former Army Gen. David Petraeus, who was recently in Iraq for the first time in more than three years, told a newspaper that Iranian-backed Shia militias are a bigger threat than the Islamic State terror group to long-term stability in Iraq and the region.

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  Mar 21, 2015

  Huckabee Says Obama's Iran Deal Is Like Giving Matches to Pyromaniac

  Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate, said President Obama's leaked draft nuclear deal with Iran is "terrible" and can be compared to giving a book of matches to "a pyromaniac in our neighborhood."

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  Mar 16, 2015

  Dolce & Gabbana Declare Belief in Traditional Family; Elton John, LGBT Activist Groups Call for Boycott

  Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, of the famous Italian luxury industry fashion house Dolce & Gabbana, and who were at one time in romantic relationship with each other, have declared that they believe in "the traditional family." Singer Elton John and gay activist groups are reacting by calling for a boycott of the designers.

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  Mar 16, 2015

  Bishop Ef of World Evangelical Alliance Meets UN's Ban Ki-moon to Share Biblical Solutions to End Human Suffering, Violent Global Conflicts

  Bishop Efraim Tendero, whose tenure as secretary general of the World Evangelical Alliance began March 1, met with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York to discuss ways to strengthen their partnership on issues such as poverty, conflict and inter-faith dialogue.

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  Mar 16, 2015

  ISIS Built 'Guantanamo' to Mentally Torture Western Captives With Mock Executions by 'Jihadi John,' Ex-Hostage Says

  A former Islamic State hostage revealed Sunday that ISIS held a group of Western hostages in a compound near Aleppo in northern Syria where its British militant "Jihadi John" staged mock executions to replicate the prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, for jihadist combatants.

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  Mar 15, 2015

  70-Year-Old Catholic Nun Gang-Raped in India

  Police in eastern India on Sunday arrested five people who were suspected to be part of a gang of robbers who broke into a Catholic school in eastern India and raped a 71-year-old nun after she raised an alarm.