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, […]
Pastor Assaulted in India Felt Police Left Him to Die
Hindu nationalists force him to worship Hindu deity.
January 29, 2026 By -
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 […]
Christian Couples, Attorney Assaulted in India
Hindu extremists force pastor to set fire to Bibles.
December 23, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Hindu extremist mob in northern India last month assaulted two Christian couples and an attorney for several hours, accusing them of forced conversion, sources said. In Harayana state’s Titoli village, five miles from the city of Rohtak, the mob forced one of the Christians, a pastor, to set fire […]
Christian Woman Jailed in India Treated for Cancer
Hindu extremists file false charge against her and others.
December 2, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman in India jailed for 86 days on false accusations of fraudulent conversion was diagnosed with cancer in October, sources said. Sheela Devi, 45, of Dubey ka Purva village, Uttar Pradesh state, was released on bail on Oct. 14 and has been hospitalized at Kachhwa Christian Hospital since […]
Legality of Rajasthan, India’s ‘Anti-Conversion’ Law Challenged
Petitions aim to stop ‘tyranny against minorities.’
November 18, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – India’s Supreme Court on Monday (Nov. 17) issued notice to the Rajasthan government regarding a petition challenging the state’s “anti-conversion” law, which allows officials to demolish homes and seize property based on mere allegations of forcible conversion. While petitions earlier this month challenged the proviions allowing officials to demolish homes […]
Police in India Arrest Pastor after Hindu Extremist Attack
Assailants try to force church leader to teach about their gods.
November 4, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When a Hindu extremist mob assaulted Christian men, women and children during a church service in India in late September, police jailed the pastor and charged him and four other Christians, sources said. In Rajasthan state’s Hanumangarh District, several Hindu women intruded into the church building in Nohar city followed […]
Christians in India Cleared of False Forcible Conversion Charges
Lives of victims of concocted allegations devastated.
November 3, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – India’s Supreme Court on Oct. 17 quashed all criminal proceedings against Christians falsely accused of mass religious conversions, delivering a scathing rebuke to authorities for using the criminal justice system as a “tool of harassment of innocent persons.” Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra’s 158-page judgment vindicated Pastor Vijay […]
Christians in India Say Pastor’s ‘Accidental’ Death was Murder
Police, media said to aid in cover-up.
October 7, 2025 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – More than six months after police in southern India dismissed the death of a pastor as a road accident, Christians in the region say there is strong evidence the continually threatened evangelist was murdered. Pastor Praveen Pagadala’s body was found on the side of the road near Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh […]
Christian Acquitted in Landmark Case in Uttarakhand, India
Pastor was charged under controversial ‘anti-conversion’’ legislation.
October 1, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The first Christian charged under Uttarakhand state, India’s “anti-conversion” law has become the first to be acquitted under the statute, sources said. After a four-year legal battle, Judicial Magistrate Anju (who uses only one name) of the Ramnagar Court in Nainital District delivered the acquittal order on Sept. 17, clearing […]
Attacks follow New Anti-Conversion Bill in Rajasthan, India
Nine incidents reported in September.
September 26, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A wave of attacks on Christians erupted in northwest India’s Rajasthan state following passage of harsh anti-conversion legislation even though it has yet to receive the governor’s assent, sources said. Following passage of the Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill, 2025 in the state assembly on Sept. 9, […]