Anugrah Kumar

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  May 2, 2022

  Protestant families may be forced to pay illegal fines in Mexico over refusal to participate in festival

  Several Protestant Christian families in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas may have to pay illegal fines for the fourth consecutive year if they do not participate in an upcoming syncretic Roman Catholic festival that involves alcohol, according to a persecution watchdog.

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  May 2, 2022

  Christian group laments Church of Scotland presbyteries drift toward allowing gay marriage ahead of vote

  A Christian group based in the U.K. says it’s “very sad” that a majority of presbyteries of the Church of Scotland have supported the proposed approval of same-sex weddings in its churches ahead of the upcoming General Assembly.

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  May 2, 2022

  ‘Talking Jesus’ report finds only 6% of UK adults identify as practicing Christians

  Only 6% of adults in the United Kingdom identify as practicing Christians, while 42% say they are non-practicing Christians, and one in three non-Christians say they want to know more about Jesus Christ, according to the findings of a recent survey, Talking Jesus.

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  May 1, 2022

  Oklahoma becomes first state to ban nonbinary gender X option on birth certificates 

  Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed into law a bill that bans nonbinary identification of residents on their government-issued documents, making his state the first in the nation to require birth certificates to indicate only male or female as a person’s biological sex.

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  Apr 30, 2022

  Coptic Christian shot dead at work, assailants set fire to his car and flee

  Four unidentified masked men barged into the shop of a young Coptic man in the city of Dabaa in Egypt, shot him in the head 22 times, killing him on the spot, and burned his car before fleeing the scene.

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  Apr 30, 2022

  China shuts down popular Christian website amid crackdown on religious groups

  The latest victim of the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing crackdown against Christianity in cyberspace is a well-known Christian website which has disappeared after serving believers for about 21 years, according to a report.

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  Apr 27, 2022

  Christian group decries Turkey’s life sentence for human rights advocate

  A U.S.-based Christian group has criticized Turkey's sentencing of human rights activist Osman Kavala to life imprisonment on charges of purportedly “attempting to overthrow the government.”

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  Apr 25, 2022

  'We have to kill Macron': Priest stabbed multiple times, nun injured in attack by knife-wielding man

  As news of French President Emmanuel Macron’s reelection hit the headlines worldwide Sunday, newspapers also reported that a man attacked a Catholic priest and a nun with a knife in a church in the southern city of Nice while shouting, “we have to kill Macron.”

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  Apr 25, 2022

  Ugandan woman stabbed by husband for converting to Christianity

  A 26-year-old mother of two in eastern Uganda is recovering from deep knife wounds after her Muslim husband stabbed her on Easter Sunday because she had put her faith in Christ two weeks earlier.

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  Apr 24, 2022

  China: Police track down pastor, house church members after videos of ocean baptism posted on WeChat

  Police in Shenzhen city in southeastern China quickly tracked down a pastor and members of a house church after seeing videos posted on WeChat of their ocean baptisms, according to a report.