Anugrah Kumar

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  Feb 6, 2023

  3 killed in attack on Ethiopian church amid tension over breakaway Orthodox synod

  Three people were killed and at least four injured by alleged security forces in an attack on a church in southern Ethiopia Saturday amid growing tensions within the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, one of the oldest Christian institutions in the world. 

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  Feb 5, 2023

  Pope Francis calls on South Sudanese churches not to stay neutral when witness to acts of injustice

  Pope Francis, who is on a three-day peace mission in South Sudan, met with the Catholic leadership, urging churches in the war-torn country not to remain neutral but to speak out against injustice and the abuse of power, even as dozens of pilgrims spent nine days walking to reach the capital city of Juba to meet the pontiff.

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  Feb 5, 2023

  China responds to US shooting down ‘Red Zeppelin’ as tensions rise

  Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated further this weekend with the Chinese foreign ministry expressing extreme displeasure after the U.S. military shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, nicknamed “Red Zeppelin,” off the eastern seaboard Saturday, several days after it had flown thousands of miles over the continental U.S.

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  Feb 5, 2023

  Baptist church mourns loss of seminary student, youth director killed in accident

  A 30-year-old student at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Missouri was killed in a car accident last week. She was a beloved student at the seminary and had served as a youth director at a church in Kansas City, which announced plans for a memorial service on Wednesday.

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  Feb 4, 2023

  ‘Jesus always wins’: Pastors celebrate baptism of 77-year-old woman with Parkinson’s

  A video of a 77-year-old woman with Parkinson’s disease being baptized at a church in London is going viral on social media. “As surely as the devil is a liar, he is also a loser,” says the pastor of the church.

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  Feb 4, 2023

  Tribal Christians recount horrors of devastating spate of attacks carried out by Hindu nationalist mobs

  Tribal Christians in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh continue to suffer the aftermath of a series of brutal attacks carried out by Hindu nationalists in recent months, resulting in more than 2,500 Christians becoming homeless and hundreds of homes being vandalized and looted.

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  Feb 2, 2023

  Christian mom takes school to court over forcing 4 year old to attend LGBT pride parade, watch video of men kissing

  A U.K. court is hearing the case of a devout, born-again Christian whose 4-year-old son was forced to participate in an LGBT pride parade. It’s the first time a British court will decide the legality of imposing LGBT ideology on primary school-age students.

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  Jan 31, 2023

  Christian group rebukes former minister, Labour MP who claims Jesus never addressed sexual sins

  A U.K. Christian group has strongly condemned Member of Parliament Chris Bryant, a former Church of England minister and homosexual, for his statement in the House of Commons that there is no Biblical teaching against same-sex relationships or marriage.

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  Jan 31, 2023

  Evangelical ‘revivalist’ churches drawing more Catholics in DRC: ‘Miraculous healing’

  Congo is home to the largest Roman Catholic community in Africa, representing around 40% of the country's 96 million inhabitants. But many Catholics are reportedly attending Evangelical churches, which, they say, are more relevant to their needs, including "miraculous healing."

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  Jan 30, 2023

  London School of Economics strips Christian words Lent, Easter from term calendar

  The London School of Economics said it is doing away with Christian words for its semester names to provide a more “international” atmosphere.