Anugrah Kumar

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  Sep 11, 2021

  Here's why members of Congress are exempt from Biden's vaccine mandate

  President Joe Biden’s executive orders requiring federal employees, contractors and private employers with more than 100 workers to mandate vaccinations or weekly testing for COVID-19 exempts members of Congress, federal judges and their staffers. 

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  Sep 11, 2021

  2 elderly pastors imprisoned for their faith in Eritrea

  Two elderly pastors are being held in Eritrea’s maximum-security interrogation centre since late July, as one of the world’s most repressive and closed countries continues to persecute Christians.

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  Sep 10, 2021

  UN, human rights groups condemn Taliban's violent crackdown on women-led protests, journalists

  The United Nations and human rights groups have condemned the Taliban's ban on all demonstrations days after women took to the streets to protest Afghanistan's newly formed interim government that includes more than a dozen leaders who are designated terrorists and ex-Guantanamo detainees.

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  Sep 9, 2021

  Evangelical families in Mexico lose access to water, services for refusing to deny their faith

  Two evangelical families in central Mexico have been threatened with being cut off from essential services or expelled from the community if they continue to refuse to deny their faith and pay a fine illegally levied against them, according to a report.

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  Sep 6, 2021

  Virginia teacher fired over refusal to use trans pronouns appeals case to state Supreme Court

  A Christian teacher in Virginia, who was fired for refusing to refer to a trans-identified student by using male pronouns even though the student is female, has appealed his case to the state Supreme Court.

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  Sep 6, 2021

  'Hostage situation': Taliban refusing to let Americans, Afghan translators leave Afghanistan

  Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, a ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Sunday the Taliban are not letting flights ready to evacuate American civilians and allies leave Afghanistan and are “holding them hostage for demands.”

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  Sep 5, 2021

  Parents sue California to stop chants to Aztec gods in ethnic studies curriculum

  Parents of students in the California public school system have filed a lawsuit against the state's Department of Education in an attempt to remove a chant to Aztec gods that's part of a new ethnic studies curriculum.

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  Sep 5, 2021

  ‘Americans will die’: Lawmaker who attempted Afghanistan rescue blames Biden for US citizens being left behind

  Some Americans who remain trapped in Afghanistan are “going to die because of the failure from President Biden,” according to Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, who attempted to rescue U.S. citizens from that country.

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  Sep 5, 2021

  Christians in North Korea face torture, execution by firing squad: USCIRF report

  North Korea’s communist dictatorship has been deploying factions within the regime to carry out wrongful arrests, torture, executions and the denial of fundamental religious freedom rights as it seeks to “exterminate all Christian adherents and institutions,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says in a report.

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  Sep 4, 2021

  Afghan men arriving in US with underage girls as their ‘wives’: report

  U.S. officials have found that Afghan girls have been presented to authorities as the “wives” of much older men and some girls said they were forced to marry older men who raped them, according to a report.