by Publisher | Nov 30, 2019 | India, News |
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – After spending 11 years behind bars for a murder they did not commit, five Christians in eastern India were finally ordered to be freed on Tuesday (Nov. 26), sources said. The Supreme Court of India issued a decision granting bail to...
by Publisher | Nov 30, 2017 | India, News |
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – For 12 years Mahendra Nagdeve had met with friends and relatives in his house in Madhya Pradesh state, India to worship Christ until he received this notice from city officials this month: “With effect from the moment you receive...
by Publisher | Jun 29, 2016 | India, News
Villagers deprive impoverished Dalits of state benefits. A month after a crowd of village Hindus in Jharkhand state, India summoned 25 Christians, tied up six of them and beat them with sticks, some of the assailants ran into one of the Christians and asked if he was...
by Publisher | May 25, 2016 | India, News
Assailants twice drive families out of village. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – After deciding their gods were angry at them because neighbors had become Christians, Hindu villagers in Chhattisgarh state last month attacked 28 Christians, drove them from their homes...
by Publisher | May 6, 2016 | India, News
On same day in another area, 57-year-old pastor beaten. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police in India initially declined to take action after Hindu extremists tortured one Christian and severely beat another, sources said. In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh,...
by Publisher | Mar 30, 2016 | India, News
Elsewhere, a congregation also stands strong in face of opposition. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists have vandalized his shop, threatened to kill him, attacked his wife and daughter, forced him to bow to Hindu idols and broken his hand, but a pastor in...
by Publisher | Feb 4, 2016 | India, News
Hindu extremists accused of beating, shaving, parading him through streets. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A pastor in northern India who was beaten and paraded through streets with his head half-shaved as crowds called for him to be cut to pieces said he is thankful...
by Publisher | Jan 21, 2016 | India, News |
Attacks on Christians in India were reported on an almost daily basis in 2015, according to a Christian advocacy group. “The country saw 355 incidents of violence, including 200 major incidents, during the last year,” Joseph Dias, convener of Mumbai-based Catholic...
by Publisher | Dec 29, 2015 | Analysis, Burma (Myanmar), Central Asia, China, Eritrea, Front Page Analysis, India, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Laos, Nepal, Nigeria, North Korea, Tanzania, Vietnam |
Release International is warning that the flight of faith witnessed in 2015 is set to continue into 2016, as Christian refugees are driven out of their communities and countries because of their religious beliefs. ‘This flight of faith is a growing trend around the...
by Publisher | Dec 23, 2015 | India, News
Ministry workers disparaged for their faith, severely beaten. NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police hostility toward Christians continued this year as officers in Tamil Nadu, India reviled two Christians for their faith and seriously injured them, sources said. The...
by Publisher | Dec 21, 2015 | Blog, India |
One of the events I have helped organise with Release International was for a partner from India who was sharing about the situation in his country. It was an excellent evening during which he shared about the effects of the 2014 landslide election victory by the BJP,...
by Publisher | Dec 7, 2015 | India, News |
Hindu nationalists have hit out at Christians and Muslims in India, after the number of adherents to “Bharatiya” (traditionally Indian) faiths fell, according to the recently released results of the 2011 decennial national census. Although the overall proportion of...
