Anugrah Kumar

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  Jun 1, 2014

  Obama Admin Urged to Offer Safe Haven to Sudanese Mother Sentenced to Death for Faith

  Family Research Council President Tony Perkins joined thousands of Americans in urging the Obama administration to grant immediate refugee status to a Sudanese mother who is in a prison with her 20-month-old son and newborn daughter after being sentenced to 100 lashes and death on charges of apostasy and adultery but is now expected to be freed soon.

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  May 31, 2014

  Colorado Christian Baker Must Make Wedding Cake for Gay Couples, Commission Rules

  The Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled Friday that the state's Anti-Discrimination Act doesn't allow a Christian cake maker to refuse to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple.

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  May 31, 2014

  Gallup Poll: Democrats Increasingly More Accepting of Immoral Behavior; Republicans Have Changed Little

  Over the last 12 years, Democrats have become significantly more accepting of liberal positions on moral issues such as abortion, premarital sex, extramarital affair, suicide, polygamy and homosexuality, while Republicans' views on these issues have changed little, according to a new Gallup poll.

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  May 31, 2014

  Nearly 200 So. Baptist Groups, Christian Ministries Join Fight Against Obamacare Birth Control Mandate

  Several Southern Baptist and secular organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief to support a legal challenge to the Obama administration's contraception mandate by the Southern Baptist Convention's insurance provider and evangelical ministries.

• May 26, 2014

  3 Missing After 'Unbelievably Big' Colorado Mudslide

  Emergency crews were searching for three people missing after an "unbelievably big" mudslide – estimated to be about four miles long, two miles wide and about 250 feet deep – late Sunday in western Colorado's Mesa County.

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  May 26, 2014

  Pope Francis, Patriarch Bartholomew Pray at Holy Sepulchre Church to Promote Christian Unity

  To bridge rifts between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, Pope Francis met and prayer together with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I at the 12th century Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday, the second of his Holy Land tour.

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  May 26, 2014

  Santa Barbara Shooting Suspect Emailed 140-Page Hate Manifesto to Parents; Fatally Stabbed Roommates

  Santa Barbara mass murder suspect Elliot Rodger emailed a 137-page manifesto – with a detailed plan on how he would carry out deadly killings as revenge for rejection by women – to his parents and several others, and stabbed three UCSB students in his apartment before going on a shooting spree, officials said.

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  May 26, 2014

  Republican Gov. Decides After 'Immense Struggle' Not to Appeal Striking of Pa. Same-Sex Marriage Ban

  Pennsylvania's Republican Gov. Tom Corbett decided not to challenge a federal judge's ruling overturning his state's same-sex marriage ban after an "immense struggle" due to "his religious beliefs based on his Catholic upbringing and teachings," an aide says.

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  May 25, 2014

  'I Am a Secular Christian,' Richard Dawkins Admits

  Speaking at a literature festival in Wales, British atheist professor Richard Dawkins admitted that while he surely doesn't believe in the supernatural elements of Christianity, he wouldn't mind being called "a secular Christian."

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  May 25, 2014

  Church of England Dioceses Approve Women Bishops

  All the 44 dioceses of the Church of England have voted to approve ordination of women as bishops, and the change in the denomination's centuries-old practice is now just one step away. The final vote is scheduled for July.