Anugrah Kumar

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  Dec 19, 2022

  UMC pastor suspended after Arkansas Conference rejects second disaffiliation vote

  A regional body of the United Methodist Church has suspended the senior pastor of an Arkansas congregation that held a second vote to disaffiliate from the second-largest Protestant denomination in the country amid the schism over homosexuality.

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  Dec 18, 2022

  UK gov’t admits it was wrong for prosecutors to say parts of the Bible are ‘no longer appropriate'

  Prosecutors in the United Kingdom have admitted it was “inappropriate” for them to argue in a case against a Christian street preacher that some parts of the Bible are “simply no longer appropriate in modern society and which would be deemed offensive if stated in public.”

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  Dec 17, 2022

  Over 400 hostile acts against US churches since 2018; at least 57 tied to abortion in 2022: report

  At least 420 acts of hostility against churches occurred in the United States over the past five years, while 57 of those hostile acts between January and September 2022 have been related to abortion, an analysis suggests.

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  Dec 17, 2022

  'The Voice' star Bodie says connecting with God helped him 'break up' with depression

  “The Voice” Season 22 runner-up Bodie says his breakup with depression after connecting with God inspired him to write the song “Happy Now,” seeking to raise awareness of the rising rates of suicide and warning about songs that romanticize suicide. 

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  Dec 16, 2022

  Congregation on high alert after dead animal found hanging on flagpole, pastor suspects satanists

  A congregation in the English countryside was terrified to learn that a dead cat was found hanging from a flagpole at their church, just weeks after a dead fox was discovered on the church’s doorstep. The vicar of the church suspects the animals' bodies were deliberately dumped by satanists.

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  Dec 15, 2022

  Christian teen fled persecution in Colombia, fears for family's safety amid threats of violence

  A Colombian teenager who was moved to a safe house by a Christian ministry after experiencing persecution at the hands of a local indigenous people group says she fears for her family’s safety amid threats of violence.

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  Dec 13, 2022

  14-year-old girl denied kidney transplant because she didn’t get COVID-19 shot, parents say

  The parents of a 14-year-old girl who suffers from a rare degenerative kidney condition, say Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, denied their daughter a life-saving kidney transplant because she didn't get the COVID-19 shot.

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  Dec 12, 2022

  University pays $90K for taking action against Christian students who shared views on marriage

  The University of Idaho has agreed to pay $90,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by three Christian students given "no contact orders" after expressing their religious beliefs in opposition to same-sex marriage. 

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  Dec 12, 2022

  NYC church destroyed on 9/11 reopens, resumes 'full liturgical and parochial life'

  A New York City church that was destroyed during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, has finally reopened for worship 21 years later. 

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  Dec 12, 2022

  Man gets life sentence in murder of pastor's daughter found under church stairs

  A 29-year-old Ohio man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for beating a pastor’s daughter, a young mother, to death with a garden tool and hiding her body under stairs outside the church.