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Hurricane Laura, causing extensive damage in Louisiana

At least six people have been killed as Hurricane Laura battered the US state of Louisiana.
Winds of up to 150mph (240km/h) caused severe damage, with power cuts to more than half a million homes and a chemical fire from an industrial plant.
But the feared 20ft (6m) storm surge was avoided as the hurricane, the state’s biggest, tracked further east.
Laura has now been downgraded to tropical storm status.
It has since crossed into Arkansas. At 19:00 local time (00:00 GMT) on Thursday the National Hurricane Center said the storm had weakened to maximum sustained winds of 40mph (65km/h), but was still bringing heavy rainfall.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said the state “did not sustain and suffer the absolute, catastrophic damage that we thought was likely,” but stressed they had still suffered “a tremendous amount of damage” and warned people to remain vigilant.
President Donald Trump was briefed at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) in Washington and said he would go to the area at the weekend.
He said he had been prepared to postpone his speech at the Republican National Convention later on Thursday to travel to the region but added: “We got a bit lucky. It was very big and very powerful but it passed quickly.” The president will visit the states affected at the weekend.
Laura and another storm, Marco, earlier swept across the Caribbean, killing 24 people.
At least six people are known to have died after the storm crashed into the US, Gov Edwards told reporters.
Of those, four were killed by falling trees. One man drowned in a boat that sank and another died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator in his home, authorities said.
There was more structural damage from winds than anticipated, but the water damage was less than feared.
Nearly 900,000 homes and businesses lost power as the storm hit the US.
A barge had collided with a bridge in the city of Lake Charles, quite close to where a suspected “chlorine chemical fire” at an industrial plant was being attended by emergency services.
Mr Edwards said people should stay off the roads where possible, as outer bands of the storm were still causing high water levels and winds.
Some 1,500 people, including National Guard troops, are being deployed in rescue and clean-up missions.
Vice-President Mike Pence, who joined Mr Trump at Fema, said: “While this was a major storm with devastating impact it was not as bad as it could have been.”
It was one of the strongest to ever hit the US Gulf Coast, striking as a category four with winds of up to 150mph (240km/h).
Governor Edwards said it was even more powerful than Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that devastated New Orleans and killed more than 1,800 people.
It made landfall shortly after midnight local time (05:00 GMT) near the district of Cameron, in Louisiana. It tracked north, just east of the Texas-Louisiana border.
As yet, there have been no casualties confirmed in Texas. Governor Greg Abbott toured the area hit by the storm with the US Coast Guard on Thursday, and said the state was “ready to help communities rebuild”.
Lake Charles, a city of 78,000, and its surrounding areas were badly hit. Trees and electricity pylons have been ripped from the ground and vehicles overturned.
Part of the roof of the Golden Nugget Casino flew off, a CNN-affiliated reporter witnessed, and an NWS radar installation was destroyed.
In Sparks, just to the north, Rev Karl Smith rode out the storm in his cellar. He told Reuters: “We just had trees thrown everywhere. It’s a big mess.”Ahead of the hurricane’s arrival, more than 420,000 Texas residents were ordered to leave, while an additional 200,000 were told to evacuate Calcasieu Parish in south-western Louisiana.
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British Preacher Who Publicly Criticized Quran Found Not Guilty of Hate Crime

United Kingdom — On March 12, a British court found preacher Karandeep Mamman not guilty of a hate crime following his public criticism of the Quran.
According to the British organization Christian Concern, Mamman was acquitted of criminal charges after prosecutors, “refused to offer any evidence to the charges of section 4A of the Public Order Act …”
The trial concerned the aggressive response Mamman received while street preaching in January 2023. A small crowd of protestors surrounded Mamman as he critiqued the Quran, saying the Islamic holy text is inaccurate because it represents a wrong view of Jesus Christ.
“Jesus in the Quran is not the true Jesus,” he told the protestors. “According to the Quran Mohammad promoted hatred, terrorism, and killing of Jews and Christians who do not convert.”
As the crowd became more aggressive, Mamman attempted to leave, but a witness testified that “the mob would not let him go.” The crowd only let Mamman leave after local police arrived.
Another man violently grabbed a sign Mamman was holding that listed, “a series of Christian commands from the Bible … [including] a symbol suggesting the prohibition of homosexual practice.”
Following the incident, police called Mamman to the police station and charged him with “causing religiously aggravated harassment, alarm, and distress.”
After his acquittal, Mamman said, “My aim always when preaching is to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and that all of us can only be saved if we follow His teaching.
“It was intimidating to be attacked and surrounded by such an angry mob, but I was determined to stand my ground and not back down over my beliefs.”
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Pastor Andrew Brunson’s Prison Dream: Dark Anti-Israel Alliance Emerging

America’s spiritual decline may have stabilized, but the country’s failure to defend Judeo-Christian values is leading to the emergence of a dark, anti-Israel regional alliance.
But Pastor Andrew Brunson says God gave him a vision while he was imprisoned in Turkey, and he says it reveals what must be done to endure spiritual darkness and hardship in our own lives.
More than six years have passed since Brunson’s unexpected release from a Turkish prison, and now the world focuses on a different hostage crisis.
Given his unique perspective, CBN News recently asked Brunson to share his thoughts and describe the emotions he feels at the sight of innocent hostages held unjustly in Gaza and the agony experienced by their families.
“When I see the reunions, it really moved me because I remember just the desperation, the desperate longing I had, for freedom and to be with my family,” Brunson recalled. “And so, then I see these people coming together after not knowing if they’ll ever see each other again. And I know what they’re feeling now.”
Brunson spent 23 years as a missionary in Turkey, sharing the gospel and planting churches. In 2016, Turkish authorities arrested him on terrorism charges for allegedly assisting the Kurdish minority and sentenced him to life in prison.
Today, Brunson remains grateful to President Trump for what he described as unprecedented efforts to negotiate his release during Trump’s first term. Upon his return to the United States, Trump invited Brunson and his wife, Noreen, to the Oval Office.
“I remember when we prayed for him in the Oval Office I said, ‘Can I pray for you’ and he said, ‘Well, I probably need prayer, more prayer than anyone else in this room.’ And I think it is true.”
Like many Americans, Brunson believes God intervened to spare Trump’s life last year in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Although the Trump administration has made strides toward family- and faith-friendly policies, Brunson contends the country’s anti-Christian bias has a strong foothold and is deeply ingrained.
“It will bring a delay, but the culture as a whole has already become post-Christian…When we came back from Turkey, we came back to a different country. And I think in the last years especially, there was an acceleration toward a very aggressively anti-Christian position, especially by the ruling elite. You could say every institution in our country is led by people who are post-Christian and increasingly anti-Christian.”
Brunson believes the extreme pressures will rise again after Trump.
“I think they will because the culture hasn’t changed. Our culture is very quickly turning away from God.”
He predicts the United States and other Western nations will eventually become less inclined to defend religious freedom. As a result, regional powers will rise to fill the void.
“I think Turkey, Russia, and Iran will move together in some alliance…I had a dream about this in prison that was from God. I have very few dreams from God, but this was one and I saw them in a dark alliance. This was in 2016, before they started to move together, and then it started to happen. So, I think there are spiritual ties there. But I do think there is an alliance that will continue in a darker direction and that will, it will eventually in the end try to undermine Israel, yes.”
Brunson always felt strong as a missionary, then when isolated in prison, despair overtook him, and he felt abandoned by God. He explained that his wounded heart led him into a spiritual crisis.
“I began to question God’s existence. And the first time I did that, I began to cry, said, how could this happen? I started churches, I baptized Muslims, and here I’ve taught and preached for years, and now I’m even questioning whether God exists,” he recalls. “So I had many questions for God, and I became aware at some point that God had questions for me. ‘Andrew, are you going to love me when you don’t see my love? Are you going to be faithful to me when you don’t see my faithfulness?'”
Brunson predicts American Christians will also face difficult times ahead. At a recent Regent University chapel, he encouraged students to stay strong despite adversity, even when God’s presence is not felt.
“You have to survive those times of crisis. You have to remain faithful. Your devotion to God is being tested and you have to hold on to him even when you don’t understand, even when you don’t have answers. Will you love him when you don’t see his love? Will you be faithful when you don’t see his faithfulness?”
Brunson believes that people can endure when they learn to recite what God says about himself.
“I had to make a conscious decision to repeat again and again, ‘No God, you are faithful. You do love me even if I don’t feel it, even if I don’t see it. You are good, you are true,’ and to say these things even when my emotions are in turmoil and darkness. But I, with my will, I can choose to speak what is true.”
Sources:CBN News
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ഗ്രീൻകാർഡ് ഉള്ളവരെയും നാടുകടത്തും, വിലാസ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ അറിയിച്ചില്ലെങ്കിൽ നടപടി ഉറപ്പ്! യുഎസ് ഇമിഗ്രേഷൻ ഡിപ്പാർട്ട്മെന്റിന്റെ മുന്നറിയിപ്പ്

ന്യൂയോർക്ക്: വിലാസ മാറ്റം റിപ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്നതിൽ പരാജയപ്പെട്ടാൽ അമേരിക്കൻ പൗരന്മാരല്ലാത്തവരെയെല്ലാം നാടുകടത്തുമെന്ന് യുഎസിൽ താമസിക്കുന്ന വിദേശികൾക്ക് വീണ്ടും യുണൈറ്റഡ് സ്റ്റേറ്റ്സ് സിറ്റിസൺഷിപ്പ് ആൻഡ് ഇമിഗ്രേഷൻ സർവീസസിൻ്റെ (യു എസ് സി ഐ എസ്) മുന്നറിയിപ്പ്. ഗ്രീൻ കാർഡ് ഉടമകൾ ഉൾപ്പെടെയുള്ള അമേരിക്കൻ പൗരന്മാരല്ലാത്തവർക്കെല്ലാം ഇത് ബാധകമായിരിക്കുമെന്നും യു എസ് സി ഐ എസ് അധികൃതർ വ്യക്തമാക്കി.
അമേരിക്കയിൽ താമസമാക്കിയിട്ടുള്ള വിദേശ പൗരന്മാരെല്ലാം അവരുടെ വിലാസ മാറ്റം സർക്കാരിനെ കൃത്യമായി അറിയിച്ചിരിക്കണം. അല്ലാത്തപക്ഷം ഗ്രീൻ കാർഡ് ഉടമകൾ ഉൾപ്പെടെയുള്ള എല്ലാവരെയും നാടുകടത്തലിന് വിധേയമാക്കുമെന്ന് യു എസ് സി ഐ എസ് വെബ്സൈറ്റിൽ അപ്ഡേറ്റും ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ട്. യുണൈറ്റഡ് സ്റ്റേറ്റ്സിലെ എല്ലാ വിദേശികളും താമസം മാറി 10 ദിവസത്തിനുള്ളിൽ യു എസ് സി ഐ എസിൽ വിലാസ മാറ്റം റിപ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്യണം. താമസം മാറിക്കഴിഞ്ഞാൽ ഉടൻ തന്നെ നിങ്ങളുടെ യു എസ് സി ഐ എസ് ഓൺലൈൻ അക്കൗണ്ട് വഴി വിലാസ മാറ്റം സമർപ്പിച്ചിരിക്കണമെന്നാണ് നിയമം.
വിലാസമാറ്റ അറിയിപ്പ് പാലിക്കുന്നതിൽ പരാജയപ്പെട്ട ഏതൊരു വിദേശിയെയും നാടുകടത്താൻ കഴിയുമെന്നും യു എസ് സി ഐ എസ് ഓർമ്മിപ്പിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഫെബ്രുവരി മാസം അവസാനം വരെ വിലാസ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ റിപ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്യാത്തവരെ ശിക്ഷിക്കുന്ന നിയമങ്ങൾ സജീവമായി നടപ്പിലാക്കുമെന്ന് ഹോംലാൻഡ് സെക്യൂരിറ്റി വകുപ്പ് സെക്രട്ടറി ക്രിസ്റ്റി നോം വ്യക്തമാക്കുകയും ചെയ്തു. ഇമിഗ്രേഷൻ ആൻഡ് നാഷണാലിറ്റി ആക്റ്റ് പൂർണ്ണമായും നടപ്പിലാക്കുമെന്നും അവർ മുന്നറിയിപ്പ് നൽകി. വിലാസ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ റിപ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്യണമെന്ന് ആവശ്യപ്പെടുന്ന നിയമങ്ങൾ യുഎസിൽ വളരെക്കാലമായി നിലവിലുണ്ടെങ്കിലും ഇ പലപ്പോഴും കൃത്യമായി നടപ്പാക്കിയിരുന്നില്ല.
എന്നാൽ രണ്ടാം ട്രംപ് ഭരണകൂടം ഇക്കാര്യത്തിൽ ശക്തമായ നിലപാടാണ് സ്വീകരിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്. ഇതുകൊണ്ടുതന്നെ ഗ്രീൻ കാർഡ് ഉടമകൾ ഉൾപ്പെടെയുള്ള എല്ലാവരും കൃത്യമായി വിലാസമാറ്റം അറിയിച്ചിരിക്കണം. അല്ലാത്തപക്ഷം ആരായാലും അവരെ നാടുകടത്തലിന് വിധേയമാക്കുമെന്നും ക്രിസ്റ്റി നോം വ്യക്തമാക്കി. ട്രംപ് ഭരണകൂടം എല്ലാ കുടിയേറ്റ നിയമങ്ങളും കൃത്യമായി നടപ്പിലാക്കും.
യുഎസിൽ വിലാസ മാറ്റം റിപ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്നതിൽ പരാജയപ്പെടുന്നത് 200 ഡോളർ വരെ പിഴയോ, 30 ദിവസത്തെ തടവോ, അല്ലെങ്കിൽ രണ്ടും കൂടിയോ ലഭിക്കാൻ കാരണമാകും. വിലാസ മാറ്റം റിപ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്നതിൽ പരാജയപ്പെട്ടതിന് ന്യായമായ വിശദീകരണം നൽകാൻ കഴിയാത്ത ഗ്രീൻ കാർഡ് ഉടമകൾക്കും മറ്റ് പൗരന്മാരല്ലാത്തവർക്കും സാധിക്കണം. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ നിലവിലുള്ള നിയമ വ്യവസ്ഥകൾ പ്രകാരം നാടുകടത്തൽ നേരിടേണ്ടി വരുമെന്നാണ് ക്രിസ്റ്റി നോം മുന്നറിയിപ്പ് നൽകിയത്.
Sources:azchavattomonline.com
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