Anugrah Kumar

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  Jul 30, 2021

  Lutheran bishops worldwide condemn criminal prosecution of Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen

  Lutheran bishops from around the world have issued a statement condemning the criminal prosecution of Päivi Räsänen, a Christian politician who is facing six years in prison for sharing her biblical beliefs on sexuality and marriage, and Finnish Bishop-elect Juhana Pohjola, who distributed a pamphlet written by Räsänen.

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  Jul 27, 2021

  Chile: Parents win right to make education decisions for their children

  The constitutional court of Chile has ruled in favor of the rights of parents to choose the kind of education their children receive, preventing the government from imposing a secular worldview in sex education and other topics. 

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  Jul 26, 2021

  Israeli archaeologists find 3,100-year-old inscription linked to book of Judges

  Israeli archaeologists excavating in the Judean foothills have uncovered an extremely rare 3,100-year-old inscription from the era of the biblical judges and carrying a name from the Book of Judges.

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  Jul 26, 2021

  Man pleads guilty to murdering Amish teen as she walked home from church

  A 35-year-old man has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing an 18-year-old Amish teenager from Pennsylvania, Linda Stoltzfoos, who had gone missing while walking home from church and was later found strangled and stabbed in the neck.

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  Jul 26, 2021

  North Korean authorities complicit in torture, murder and slavery; report warns of likely 'genocide'

  An inquiry by the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea has found that officials working with dictator Kim Jong Un have committed murder, torture, modern-day slavery and religious persecution, all of which amount to crimes against humanity.

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  Jul 25, 2021

  Argentina allows gender X on ID cards, passports for people who reject identifying as male, female

  Argentina has become the first country in South America to allow citizens to identify as nonbinary in national ID documents, including passports.

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  Jul 25, 2021

  CofE vicar faces firing for hugging parishioner at funeral, going maskless to sing last verse of hymn

  A diocese of the Church of England is investigating a vicar and has threatened him with disciplinary action, including sacking, for singing the final verse of the Easter hymn “Thine be the Glory” without wearing a mask and thereby breaking the denomination’s Covid guidelines.

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  Jul 25, 2021

  Chinese authorities raid Zoom church service, order pastor to stop preaching

  Police officers and Chinese Communist Party officials raided a church in Guangdong Province while its pastor and elder were leading an online worship service on Zoom, forcing the two to stop preaching.

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  Jul 24, 2021

  ‘Justice prevailed’: Christian street preacher wins case after being fined, prosecuted for evangelizing

  A court in London has ruled that a Christian street preacher who was fined and prosecuted by the police for evangelizing during lockdown did not break regulations or do anything illegal. 

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  Jul 24, 2021

  Pastor in India forced to flee his home after enduring ‘merciless torture’ by police

  A pastor in northern India was forced to flee his village after police detained him, his wife and three children, one of whom is 2 years old, and tortured him for sharing the Gospel.