Anugrah Kumar

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  Oct 3, 2022

  Catholic school has right to dismiss guidance counselor in a same-sex marriage, Judge rules

  A federal court has ruled that a Catholic in Indiana can lawfully refuse to renew the contract of a guidance counselor in a same-sex marriage.

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  Oct 3, 2022

  FEMA says it will help everybody after Kamala Harris suggests hurricane aid will be based on ‘equity’

  Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell assured the agency will provide Hurricane Ian relief to "all communities" after Vice President Kamala Harris remarked that the Biden administration believes aid should be distributed "based on equity."

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  Oct 2, 2022

  Pastor of Texas church where gunman killed 26 preached on Paul’s letter to Ephesus in last sermon

  Pastor Frank Pomeroy gave his last sermon before retiring from his church in Texas that garnered national headlines in 2017 when a shooter entered its sanctuary and killed 26 people, including the pastor’s daughter, and he felt God wanted him to preach on Paul’s letter to Ephesian church elders.

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  Oct 2, 2022

  Hurricane Ian moves through Virginia as death toll rises in Florida and the Carolinas

  After battering Florida and the Carolinas with a combined death toll of at least 70, Hurricane Ian moved northeast through Virginia as a weakened storm early Sunday, lashing rain and possibilities of flooding in West Virginia, Maryland and southern Pennsylvania.

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  Oct 1, 2022

  ‘The Lord is with us’: Florida pastor shares update in the wake of Hurricane Ian's destruction

  “The Lord is with us” and there are “many reasons to be filled with hope and even to rejoice,” says a pastor in Florida in an update after Hurricane Ian made landfall with winds of 150 mph, killing at least 32 people and causing catastrophic floods and life-threatening storm surge.

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  Oct 1, 2022

  Ukraine President Zelensky requests fast-track NATO membership after Putin annexes 4 regions

  As the Russian invasion enters its seventh month, Ukraine is seeking an accelerated membership in NATO and has ruled out talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who announced the annexation of four Ukrainian provinces.

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  Sep 29, 2022

  Museum of the Bible leaders travel to Greece, return 1,000-year-old handwritten manuscript

  Leaders from the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. traveled to Greece this week to formally return a handwritten, 1,000-year-old, handwritten Gospel manuscript looted by Bulgarian troops in 1917.

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  Sep 29, 2022

  Hurricane Ian leaves 2.5 million without power in Florida; Orlando sees record-breaking rainfall

  More than 2.5 million homes were without power in Florida amid catastrophic floods and life-threatening storm surge early Thursday, hours after Hurricane Ian made landfall near Cayo Costa as a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. The international evangelical relief group Samaritan’s Purse is preparing to respond.

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  Sep 28, 2022

  Episcopal church pays ‘voluntary tax’ to indigenous tribes as form of land acknowledgment

  An Episcopal church in Wisconsin has included in its budget a voluntary tax on its property to give to the state's Native American tribes to acknowledge that it stands on land that "used to be someone else's homeland."

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  Sep 28, 2022

  Hurricane Ian Tracker: Florida braces for catastrophic landfall

  After leaving 11 million people without power in Cuba, Hurricane Ian became a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane early Wednesday with winds up to 155 mph as it moves closer to Port Charlotte and the southwestern coast, where it's expected to make landfall by the afternoon and is predicted to cause life-threatening flooding.