Anugrah Kumar

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  Dec 23, 2022

  Brian Houston to focus on ‘building for the future’ ahead of court verdict in 2023

  Brian Houston, the founder and former global senior pastor of the Hillsong Church network, has told his followers on social media that he will focus on “building for the future” until June 2023, when the verdict is expected concerning the charge that he concealed his father’s sexual abuse.

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  Dec 23, 2022

  Deadly ‘bomb cyclone’ hits the US, millions brace for deep freeze

  At least five people have died in vehicle accidents and thousands of flights have been canceled as more than 200 million people, or roughly 60% of the U.S. population, are under winter storm and wind chill alerts due to an impending “bomb cyclone” which will cripple the travel plans of thousands of families this Christmas.

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  Dec 21, 2022

  Church of England Synod members urge Archbishop of Canterbury to drop trans school guidance

  Christian parents and two members of The Church of England's General Synod are calling for the end to the denomination's school guidance allowing students to self-identify as the opposite sex.

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  Dec 20, 2022

  Hillsong’s Brian Houston says father was ‘serial pedophile,' given retirement package after firing

  Brian Houston, the founder and former global senior pastor of the Hillsong Church network, told a court in Australia that his father, Frank, was a "serial pedophile" but received a retirement package after being defrocked by the Assemblies of God. 

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  Dec 19, 2022

  ‘I finished it!’: Patricia Heaton celebrates reading entire Bible for the first time in her life

  Emmy Award-winning actress and "Everybody Loves Raymond" star Patricia Heaton shared with her fans that it was "revelatory" reading the entire Bible this year. "I finished it today," she said in excitement.

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  Dec 19, 2022

  Vatican defrocks Priests for Life director Frank Pavone for ‘blasphemous communications’

  The Vatican has defrocked Fr. Frank Pavone, the national director of Priests for Life and a leading Catholic voice against abortion in the United States, for “blasphemous communications on social media” and disobeying his diocesan bishop.

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  Dec 19, 2022

  UMC pastor suspended after Arkansas Conference rejects second disaffiliation vote

  A regional body of the United Methodist Church has suspended the senior pastor of an Arkansas congregation that held a second vote to disaffiliate from the second-largest Protestant denomination in the country amid the schism over homosexuality.

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  Dec 18, 2022

  UK gov’t admits it was wrong for prosecutors to say parts of the Bible are ‘no longer appropriate'

  Prosecutors in the United Kingdom have admitted it was “inappropriate” for them to argue in a case against a Christian street preacher that some parts of the Bible are “simply no longer appropriate in modern society and which would be deemed offensive if stated in public.”

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  Dec 17, 2022

  Over 400 hostile acts against US churches since 2018; at least 57 tied to abortion in 2022: report

  At least 420 acts of hostility against churches occurred in the United States over the past five years, while 57 of those hostile acts between January and September 2022 have been related to abortion, an analysis suggests.

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  Dec 17, 2022

  'The Voice' star Bodie says connecting with God helped him 'break up' with depression

  “The Voice” Season 22 runner-up Bodie says his breakup with depression after connecting with God inspired him to write the song “Happy Now,” seeking to raise awareness of the rising rates of suicide and warning about songs that romanticize suicide.