HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Police officers rushed into a praise service at a house in Tamil Nadu state and began hitting worshippers in another violent month for Christians, sources said. A female police inspector identified only as Jeyalakshmi and five police officers on Oct. 6 entered the house where Christians were spending the […]
Police Attack, Threaten Christians in Tamil Nadu State, India
Officers of the law beat or harass various congregations.
October 27, 2018 By -
Beaten, Kidnapped, Arrested – and Forced to Stop Evangelizing
In Rajasthan, India, pastor faces one injustice after another.
October 21, 2018 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When Pastor Mathai Varghese was beaten and abducted by Hindu extremists in Rajasthan state, India, police gave chase and arrested the kidnappers – as well as the pastor. His car ruined and his body bloodied, he spent a night and the next day in jail with serious injuries unattended before […]
Violence against Christians Ratchets Up in Southern India
Worshippers increasingly live in fear.
October 9, 2018 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Christians in southern India are increasingly living in fear as the level of violence against them continues to rise, sources said. The southern states of Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala saw at least 60 cases of persecution of Christians in the first nine months of 2018, compared […]
Christian Teenager Jailed on Baseless Rape Charge in India, Sources Say
Church members fear expulsion from village.
September 21, 2018 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A 16-year-old Christian and three others in eastern India have been in jail for more than a month on a baseless rape charge, sources said. Tarai Beda village leaders in Kondagaon District, Chhattisgarh state who worship tribal and Hindu deities had Piso Ram arrested days after a 16-year-old girl accompanied […]
Hindu Extremists Accelerate Clampdown on Christians in Uttar Pradesh, India
Pastors in hiding after police, media deployed against them.
September 17, 2018 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Under the influence of Hindu extremists, police and media campaigns against Christians in Uttar Pradesh state, India have mushroomed since one such attack sent a pastor into hiding last month, sources said. After false media reports of large-scale, fraudulent conversions of Hindus by pastor Durga Prasad Yadav in Jaunpur District […]
Hindu Extremists, Media Attack Large Church in Uttar Pradesh, India
‘To me, to live is Christ and to die is gain,’ says pastor.
September 8, 2018 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Dismissing an initial investigation that cleared Christians of wrongdoing, police under pressure from Hindu extremists are pursuing false charges against a pastor and 270 others, sources said. After appearing to halt Hindu nationalists’ efforts to shut down a large church in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state, police who had told […]
Hindu Extremists Suspected in False Charges against Pastor in India, Sources Say
Christians face various kinds of persecution in Jharkhand state.
August 30, 2018 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News)– A pastor could face life in prison after police in eastern India falsely charged him with leading a tribal rebel movement, sources said. Christian leaders in Khunti District, Jharkhand state suspect Hindu extremists are behind the sudden, baseless accusations against pastor Jidan Herenz in March, when he was charged with sedition […]
Hindu Extremists in India Create Nightmare for Pastor’s Family
‘Somehow we have adjusted to this abnormal normal.’
August 20, 2018 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When a Hindu in northern India got rid of the idols in his house after several visits to a church, Hindu nationalists found the perfect opportunity to make life a nightmare for a pastor’s family, sources said. Since the Hindu nationalists accused pastor Avianshu Kalra of desecration of Hindu idols […]
Police in India Demand Money to Release Falsely Accused Christians, Sources Say
Christians arrested for praying in their home.
August 13, 2018 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – About an hour before midnight on July 31, three policemen and a Hindu neighbor barged into a Christian woman’s house in northern India and ordered her and her husband to either give them money or go to jail. The couple was immersed in prayer with their children and two other […]
Hindu Extremist Sexually Assaults Pastor’s Wife at Church Service in India, Sources Say
After failed rape attempt and beating, police charge victim and her husband, sources say.
July 20, 2018 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Pratibha Stephen was immersed in worship at the house church her husband pastors in Tamil Nadu state, India when a man suddenly burst through the back door, shouting angrily. The intruder interrupted an elderly man’s singing and cymbal-playing by twisting his hands behind his back at the Jesus Power Ministries […]