NEW DELHI, June 4, 2026 (Morning Star News) – Catholics in India arrested in May under Rajasthan’s new “anti-conversion law” are still trying to obtain bail from the state High Court after lower courts denied their petitions, sources said. Their arrests followed a disruption of their Mass by “cow vigilantes” – self-styled protectors of cows […]
‘Cow Vigilantes’ Get Catholics in Prayer Arrested in India
Rajasthan state’s new ‘anti-conversion’ law brazenly abused.
June 4, 2026 By - 1 Comment
‘Sacrilege Law’ in Punjab, India Further Threatens Christians
Non-bailable offenses, officer immunity alarm community leaders.
June 2, 2026 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Thanks to misuse of a law against “outraging religious feelings,” a Christian pastor in Punjab state, India still cannot return home. His church is shut. He survives on daily physical labor, and some months there is not enough money to feed his family or pay his children’s school fees. A […]
Tribal Men in India Assault Pastor, Family for their Faith
False charges of fraudulent conversion filed against him, he says.
May 1, 2026 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Two men of traditional tribal religion in central India on April 13 assaulted a pastor and his family for their Christian faith in an attempt to chase them from their land and home, sources said. In a village in Chhattisgarh state’s Sukma District, the two men came with a mob […]
Chhattisgarh, India Governor Signs Harsh Anti-Conversion Law
Christians protest that it legally sanctions persecution.
April 15, 2026 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The governor of Chhattisgarh state, India on April 7 signed legislation against forcible conversion that is harsher than similar laws that authorities and vigilante groups have used to falsely accuse Christians, sources said. In one of the states of India where Christians are most persecuted, Chhattisgarh Gov. Ramen Deka gave […]
Anti-Christian Hostilities in India Increase over Prior Years
EFIRLC report shows continued spike in attacks.
March 25, 2026 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hostilities against Christians increased in 2025, with 747 incidents of violence, intimidation and discrimination marking a continued rise over prior years, according to the Religious Liberty Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFIRLC). The figure represents a significant increase over the 640 incidents recorded in 2024 and over five […]
Pastor Beaten Unconscious in Attack in Central India
Hindu nationalists assault women and children at worship service.
March 11, 2026 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu nationalists in central India last month led a mob that assaulted Christians at worship in a house church, including women and children, and beat the pastor unconscious, sources said. Pastor Ramesh Barela, 42, went to the house of Naval Singh to lead the service in Kotwara village, Khandwa District, […]
Christians in India Told to Convert to Hinduism for Burial Permission
Body lies in mortuary since Feb. 24.
March 2, 2026 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal villagers in India have prevented Christians from burying the body of a woman who died on Feb. 24, saying it would defile their land and deities. As the body of tribal Christian Sambai Mandavi still lay in a hospital mortuary, villagers demanded her family undergo forced reconversion to Hinduism […]
Three Christians, including 15-Year-Old Girl, Slain in India
Tribal relatives believed their faith caused illness in family.
February 20, 2026 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal relatives killed three members of a Christian family in India’s Odisha state last month, leaving three children, including a preteen and a teenager, orphaned and forcing them into hiding, sources said. Jitendra Soren, 35, his wife Malati Soren, 32, and their 15-year-old daughter Sasmita were killed on Jan. 25 […]
Pastor Assaulted in India Felt Police Left Him to Die
Hindu nationalists force him to worship Hindu deity.
January 29, 2026 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – As police looked on, a Hindu nationalist mob in India this month subjected a pastor to dehumanizing brutality, damaging his hearing and trying to force him to worship a Hindu deity, sources said. The mob of 150 villagers led by cow vigilantes garlanded with footwear Pastor Bipin Bihari Naik, 35, […]
Body Exhumed Due to Burial on Christians’ Land in India
Tribal villagers attack home, church buildings.
January 19, 2026 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Officials in India exhumed the body of a tribal man without his sons’ consent after villagers attacked Christians for burying it on land of Christian relatives, arguing that it would insult their deity, sources said. The exhumation of the body in Chhattisgarh state’s Kanker District last month without the consent […]