NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists in central India who demolished a pastor’s house and drove him and his family out of their village in March seriously injured him in an assault this month, he said. After beating, choking and pelting pastor Lalu Kirade with a stone in the April 3 attack, the tribal […]
Pastor in Central India Attacked for Police Report on Prior Assault, Expulsion
Family still living in open air after tribal animists drove them from home.
April 24, 2020 By - Leave a Comment
Gunmen Shoot, Wound Daughter of Pastor Slain in 2015 in Eastern India
Family members are told they had not ‘learned lesson.’
April 21, 2020 By - Leave a Comment
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A gunman at the door of a Christian family’s home in eastern India on Thursday (April 16) shot the daughter of a pastor who was killed in the same house five years ago, family members said. Neelam Purty, 25, sustained bullet wounds in her thumb and thigh in the […]
Christian Beaten into Coma by Tribal Animists in Odisha State, India
Shunned, impoverished family threatened with starvation.
April 7, 2020 By - 1 Comment
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A young mother and her two children were staring at her husband as he lay unconscious after a mob of 60 villagers in eastern India had stormed their home and beaten him with wooden sticks. “The children and I tried to wake him up – we thought he had […]
Police Detain Christians Providing Aid to the Poor in Tamil Nadu, India
Hindu nationalist beats church members, officer slaps them, pastor says.
March 30, 2020 By - 1 Comment
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Police in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state rushed to a slum where Christians were providing food and other aid earlier this month and detained them on false charges of forcible conversion, sources said. Marakkanam police in Viluppuram District humiliated the Christians, including the presbyter of the Viluppuram Church of […]
Christians Suffer Police Brutality, Illegal Arrests in Uttar Pradesh, India
Church members forced to pose like Christ on the cross during beating.
March 22, 2020 By - Leave a Comment
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Forcing them to pose like Christ on the cross, police last week beat Christians in custody on baseless charges in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state, sources said. On March 15 a church of 200 people was immersed in a Sunday service when 30 Hindu extremists brandishing hockey sticks and […]
Fearing for Children’s Lives, Christian Family in India Refrains from Reporting Assault to Police
Expelled and homeless in jungle, 9-year-old girl is attacked and threatened.
March 16, 2020 By - 1 Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists in central India drove a Christian family into the jungle last week, with one later intercepting their 9-year-old girl and threatening to kill her if she went to school again, her father said. On Wednesday (March 11), two days after an attack expelling the Christians from Bilood […]
Christian Leader in Madhya Pradesh, India Run Over by Motorcycles, Sources Say
Church elder attacked after dropping his son off at school.
March 8, 2020 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Violence against Christians in India hit a new level on March 4 when Hindu extremists ran their motorcycles over a key evangelical leader after beating him, sources said. Armed with bamboo rods and a thick metal chain with a heavy lock on it, the 10 Hindu nationalists in Sehore, […]
Tribal Villagers in India Beat Christian Family, Destroy Food Supply
Evangelist with injured relatives in hospital, afraid to go home.
March 2, 2020 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Not finding the Christian evangelist they planned to attack at home, worshippers of village deities in central-eastern India beat his mother, wife and 11-month-old son and destroyed a year’s food supply, sources said. Podiya Tati’s mother, Jimmey Tati, has been in a hospital bed in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh state […]
False Accusations Seriously Disrupt Lives of Eight Acquitted Christians in India
Trauma, lost income; 17-year-old still awaiting trial.
February 28, 2020 By - 1 Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – False charges against eight Christians acquitted on Feb. 19 of kidnapping and forcible conversion in central India have traumatized families and cost them jobs, sources said. Schoolteacher Amiya Jal, one of the Christians arrested on May 22, 2017 for allegedly abducting and forcefully converting 59 children, was suspended from […]
Christians Suffer Two Months of Abuse in Jail on Baseless Charges in India
Police find no evidence for accusations but yield to Hindu extremist pressure.
February 25, 2020 By - 4 Comments
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Three Christians in northern India spent more than two months in jail suffering abuse from other prisoners, even though police found no evidence of wrongdoing and the complainant retracted his accusation, sources said. In Uttar Pradesh state’s Mau District, 23-year-old pastor Ajay Kumar, fellow pastor Om Prakash, 20, and […]