HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremist threats have driven a pastor in Nepal into hiding following a leak onto social media of a restricted audience-interview he gave on his journey to Christ, sources said. Pastor Sukdev Giri of Trinity Fellowship church in Chitwan District has received death threats, he said. He has changed […]
Social Media Backlash Reflects New Era of Hostility in Nepal
Pastor receives death threats for sharing his spiritual journey.
September 16, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
Young Father in India Shocked at Why Relatives Attacked Him, Daughter and Killed His Wife
3-year-old child fears uncles will kill her father, too.
September 11, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Two weeks after losing his wife to an axe-blow in front of his 3-year-old daughter in eastern India, Rohit Oraon believes that the murder was planned, not spontaneous, and that his relatives also meant to kill him and his child. What he still cannot believe is why. The 25-year-old […]
Illegally Detained Christian Tortured to Death in Custody in Pakistan, Family Says
Impoverished father of two the only employee abused in theft case.
September 9, 2019 By - 2 Comments
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Lahore, Pakistan tortured to death the Christian father of 14-day-old and 7-year-old sons, relatives said. Officers on Aug. 28 illegally detained 28-year-old Amir Masih on a false charge of theft and tortured him for four days before he died in a hospital on Sept. 2, his brother […]
Hindu Extremists Demand Death of One of Organizers of Christian Film in India
Mob says one should be killed to ‘teach them a lesson.’
September 6, 2019 By - 1 Comment
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Immanuel Tirkey and about 100 villagers were watching the end of a Christian film in Bihar state, India, when a man stood up in front of the screen and began shouting, “Who is the operator here? Who is the operator here?” Tirkey, one of five Christians who had organized […]
Second Wrongly Convicted Christian Released in Kandhamal, India Case Counts Cost
Fight continues for five others falsely accused.
August 29, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When Bijaya Kumar Sanaseth went to jail for a murder in India that he did not commit more than 10 and a half years ago, his mother was still alive and his oldest child was 9 years old. “I have not seen my children grow,” Sanaseth, the second Christian to […]
Hindu Nationalism Increasingly Evident in India, Sources Say
Mob reflects notion that all things non-Hindu have no place in country.
August 23, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – The Hindu nationalists shouting at Christian leaders who were summoned to a police station in southern India asked what gave them the right to lead Christian congregations in a Hindu country. “Who gave you the permission to run a church in a Hindu country?” they shouted, falsely accusing the three […]
Foreign Christians Arrested on Charges of ‘Converting’ in Nepal
Leave evangelizing to Nepali church, Christian leader advises foreigners.
August 8, 2019 By - 1 Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian from South Korea arrested in Nepal on charges of “attempting to convert” was released on bail on Wednesday (Aug. 7), sources said. Cho Yusang, a 73-year-old evangelical Christian, posted bail of 150,000 Nepalese rupees (US$1,330) after being arrested on July 23. His health deteriorated after he was incarcerated, […]
Public Awareness, Pressure Help Persecuted Christians Win Justice in India
Christian victims arrested again, but outcry saves them.
August 2, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – An attorney representing Christians threatened at a wedding in northern India – with police joining in the verbal abuse and then arresting the Christians – couldn’t believe what was now happening to him. Attorney Harjinder Singh had gone to the workplace of the Sikh leader who organized the disruption of […]
Reporting Persecution to Police a Vanishing Option for Christians in India
Hindu extremists beat, deprive them of basic services in Bihar state.
July 30, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Persecution of Christians in Bihar state, India, has so intensified in the past two years that Pastor Shelton Viswanathan didn’t dare call police after Hindu extremists broke bones in his hand and foot. “If I force the police to register cases against the assailants, the [Hindu extremist] Bajrang Dal’s top […]
Christians Forced to ‘Reconvert,’ Banished from Village in India
Police decline to act, sources say.
July 13, 2019 By - 1 Comment
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Christians who worshipped privately in their homes in a village in eastern India were dragged to local leaders last month and forced to bow to a goddess idol, sources said. The mob action on June 14 followed an announcement two days earlier by the heads of Mahuatoli village, Gumla District […]