HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Members of a house church in northern India can no longer meet for worship after a mob of about 150 Hindu extremists attacked them on July 14, sources said. In the Nawada area of Uttarakhand state’s Dehradun District, 15 church members were immersed in worship when Pastor Rajesh Bhomi’s mother-in-law […]
Attack in India Ends Church’s In-Person Worship Services
Members beaten and shunned; one fired from job.
July 26, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
Pastor and Family Devastated by Death of Son in India
Higher-caste Hindu takes brutal revenge on Christian.
July 22, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Pastor Sushil Kumar and his wife rose at 3 a.m. on July 8 in their village in northern India as always to pray. They came out of their house 90 minutes later to find their 22-year-old son’s body hanging from the bamboo ceiling of a nearby animal shed. Nilesh Kumar […]
Hindu Extremist Attack Shuts Down Church’s Services in India
Police inaction contributes to closure.
July 15, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Worship services at a church in a village in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state have been suspended since Hindu extremists attacked the congregation on June 1, sources said. The mob of about 20 villagers led by members of the Hindu extremist Bajrang Dal intruded into the house of Pastor Madia […]
Relatives Kill Christian Woman with Axe Blows, Stones in India
Uncle claimed she had no right to land because of her new faith.
July 4, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A tribal religion villager in India killed his 32-year-old niece with axe blows and stones last week, claiming she and her relatives had no right to ancestral farmland because they had become Christians, sources said. Bindu Sodi of Toylanka village, Kotewarpara in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh state had been the sole […]
Pastor’s Ordeal Shows Challenges Christian Leaders Face in India
Hindu extremists continue to concoct bogus charges.
June 7, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Pastor Josemon Pathrose spent nearly all of February in jail and finally got his confiscated vehicle back after four months. The harassment and criminal charges he’s endured at the hands of Hindu extremists are not uncommon in India. Pastor Pathrose and another Christian were driving back to their base in […]
Widow of Christian Killed for His Faith in India Flees Village
Five other families forced from their homes.
June 3, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The young widow of a Christian in India’s Chhattisgarh state who was killed for his faith is living in fear a month after she fled for her life. “I saw them kill my husband right before my eyes,” said Jime Kawasi, whose husband, 22-year-old Kosa Kawasi, was slain in Bastar […]
Christian Leaders Are Attacked with Swords in Northern India
Sikh warrior group warned them against worship, conversions.
April 22, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A group belonging to a Sikh warrior order last week attacked a pastor and another Christian with swords and knives in northern India’s Punjab state for leading church worship in their village. Four Nihang Sikhs, who as members of the traditional warrior group are permitted to carry such weapons, attacked […]
Christian Couple in India Sentenced to Prison
Pastor and wife wrongly convicted of ‘forcible conversion,’ he says.
April 3, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple in India has been sentenced to prison after Hindu extremists instigated a false case of forcible conversion against them, sources said. A woman they are accused of pressuring denied in court that the Christians tried to forcibly/fraudulently convert her or her husband, but Pastor Ramesh Ahirwar and […]
Persecution of Christians Escalates in India, EFI Reports
Alarming increase of cases in Uttar Pradesh and other states.
March 27, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – India’s Christians suffered an alarming escalation of violence, hatred and systematic oppression last year, according to the Religious Liberty Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI-RLC). The 601 cases of persecution against Christians in India in 2023 marked a 45 percent increase over the 413 instances recorded the previous […]
Christian Family in India Beaten, Separated from Children
Tribal villagers expel couple for refusing to renounce Christ.
March 20, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple in central India have not seen their two young children for more than a month after an attack by followers of traditional tribal religion drove them from their village for refusing to recant their faith. Aayatu Ram Podiyami, 35, was assaulted twice in Gupanpal village, Sukma District, […]