Anugrah Kumar

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  Mar 10, 2023

  Thousands demand town apologize to police officer who resigned after sharing Christian beliefs

  Tens of thousands of people have backed a petition asking the leaders of a Georgia town to apologize after a police officer resigned after he expressed his Christian beliefs about marriage on social media. Pastors and political leaders on Friday will deliver the petition. 

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  Mar 8, 2023

  'Orwellian': Street preacher appeals conviction for 'misgendering' man who identifies as a woman

  A British Christian street preacher who was prosecuted and reported to counter-terrorism for alleged “misgendering” by refusing to say a man is a woman is appealing his conviction. He has been sharing the Bible’s message that we have all sinned by disobeying God’s laws for 15 years.

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  Mar 6, 2023

  New Orleans has ‘spirit of murder’ hovering over the city, says pastor whose son was killed in shooting

  A Louisiana pastor whose 20-year-old son was killed by gun violence says a “spirit of murder” has taken hold of New Orleans and the nation, contributing to a surge in violent crime.

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  Mar 6, 2023

  Archaeological discovery of inscription referencing King Darius of the Bible is 'not authentic'

  The Israel Antiquities Authority has clarified that what its archaeologists announced last week as a historic discovery — an inscription bearing the name of Persian King Darius the Great found at the Tel Lachish National Park in Israel — is "not authentic."

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  Mar 5, 2023

  Texas churches pledge to sponsor exiled Mayflower Church members

  Churches in Texas have pledged to sponsor the resettlement of about 60 Christians from China’s persecuted “Mayflower Church” who fled to South Korea in 2019 but were denied asylum.

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  Mar 5, 2023

  US demands release of Baptist pastor imprisoned in Myanmar

  The U.S. government has condemned Myanmar junta’s arrest of well-known Baptist bishop Hkalam Samson, who has remained in prison for nearly three months, calling for his immediate and unconditional release.Samson, an adviser to the Kachin Baptist Convention, was arrested in early December on charges of meeting with members of an ethnic armed group and holding a prayer meeting with members of the parallel civilian government of Myanmar, also known as Burma.

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  Mar 4, 2023

  Wife of pastor killed in crash caused by intoxicated red light runner breaks down in testimony

  The wife of Aaron Strong, a Wisconsin pastor who died in a car crash caused by a 23-year-old man driving through red lights while intoxicated, made an emotional appeal to lawmakers at the state Capitol to pass a pair of bills that would increase the penalty for reckless driving.

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  Mar 4, 2023

  Chaplain to appeal tribunal ruling over firing for school sermon countering LGBT ideology

  A chaplain who was blacklisted and banned from officiating in the Church of England for preaching traditional Christian views on sexual ethics during a chapel service, says he will appeal an employment tribunal ruling issued earlier this week.

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  Mar 4, 2023

  Hindu nationalists protest distribution of Bibles at World Book Fair

  A group of Hindu nationalists shouted slogans, tore posters and took away books, disrupting the free distribution of copies of the Bible by Gideons International at the New Delhi World Book Fair this week. Meanwhile, other stalls have been able to sell Hindu and Sikh scriptures without protest.

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  Mar 3, 2023

  ‘A historic first’: Vietnam allows Franklin Graham to hold evangelism event with 300 churches

  In what is dubbed a "historic first," Vietnam's communist government has permitted a foreign Christian speaker to hold an evangelistic outreach. Evangelist Franklin Graham will share God's love with the people of the Southeast Asian country this weekend at the Spring Love Festival.