Anugrah Kumar

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  Feb 5, 2023

  Baptist church mourns loss of seminary student, youth director killed in accident

  A 30-year-old student at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Missouri was killed in a car accident last week. She was a beloved student at the seminary and had served as a youth director at a church in Kansas City, which announced plans for a memorial service on Wednesday.

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  Feb 4, 2023

  ‘Jesus always wins’: Pastors celebrate baptism of 77-year-old woman with Parkinson’s

  A video of a 77-year-old woman with Parkinson’s disease being baptized at a church in London is going viral on social media. “As surely as the devil is a liar, he is also a loser,” says the pastor of the church.

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  Feb 4, 2023

  Tribal Christians recount horrors of devastating spate of attacks carried out by Hindu nationalist mobs

  Tribal Christians in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh continue to suffer the aftermath of a series of brutal attacks carried out by Hindu nationalists in recent months, resulting in more than 2,500 Christians becoming homeless and hundreds of homes being vandalized and looted.

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  Feb 2, 2023

  Christian mom takes school to court over forcing 4 year old to attend LGBT pride parade, watch video of men kissing

  A U.K. court is hearing the case of a devout, born-again Christian whose 4-year-old son was forced to participate in an LGBT pride parade. It’s the first time a British court will decide the legality of imposing LGBT ideology on primary school-age students.

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  Jan 31, 2023

  Christian group rebukes former minister, Labour MP who claims Jesus never addressed sexual sins

  A U.K. Christian group has strongly condemned Member of Parliament Chris Bryant, a former Church of England minister and homosexual, for his statement in the House of Commons that there is no Biblical teaching against same-sex relationships or marriage.

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  Jan 31, 2023

  Evangelical ‘revivalist’ churches drawing more Catholics in DRC: ‘Miraculous healing’

  Congo is home to the largest Roman Catholic community in Africa, representing around 40% of the country's 96 million inhabitants. But many Catholics are reportedly attending Evangelical churches, which, they say, are more relevant to their needs, including "miraculous healing."

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  Jan 30, 2023

  London School of Economics strips Christian words Lent, Easter from term calendar

  The London School of Economics said it is doing away with Christian words for its semester names to provide a more “international” atmosphere.

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  Jan 30, 2023

  Christian scientists viewed as less intelligent than their peers, study suggests

  A new study conducted by researchers at Ohio University finds that nonreligious individuals tend to stereotype and hold a bias against Christians working in scientific fields because they believe religion and science are in conflict.

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  Jan 30, 2023

  Amid spread of ISIS, US warns of potential attacks on churches, soft targets in Tanzania

  Amid the spread of the Islamic State in southern an eastern Africa, the U.S. government has warned about the potential for terror attacks in Tanzania, an East African country largely seen as being among the region's most peaceful. 

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  Jan 29, 2023

  Girls raped, face life of sexual exploitation after dedication to Hindu goddess

  An Indian woman described how she was routinely sexually assaulted as part of a socially accepted Hindu practice called “Devadasi,” which involves parents coercing their young daughters into an elaborate wedding ritual with a Hindu deity followed by a life of prostitution.