HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Berating and slapping two pastors into signing an apology letter before police, Hindu extremists stopped a planned three-day gospel meeting in Chhattisgarh state, India minutes before it was to begin, sources said. Hindu nationalists beat pastor Vijay Jogi and pastor Santosh Rao minutes before the start of the first meeting, […]
Hindu Extremists Beat Pastors, Stop Gospel Event in Chhattisgarh State, India
Police complicit in harassment, Christian leaders say.
December 11, 2017 By -
Christian Family in India Receives Notice to Stop Worship in Their Home
Order comes from senior officials, Hindu nationalists, sources say.
November 30, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – For 12 years Mahendra Nagdeve had met with friends and relatives in his house in Madhya Pradesh state, India to worship Christ until he received this notice from city officials this month: “With effect from the moment you receive this notice, you must not conduct any Christian congregational activity,” the […]
Christians in India Praise God in Spite of Police Brutality, Month in Jail
Officers beat, falsely charge victims of another Hindu extremist attack, Christians say.
November 24, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Six Christians facing false charges, two of them beaten by police, were jailed for a month for praying for a sick woman in eastern India, they said. After tribal Gondi villagers in Simdega District, Jharkhand state, attacked the Christians on Sept. 16, officers at the local police station refused to listen […]
Christians Charged with Serious Crimes after Hindu Extremists, Police Detain Children in India
Christians were making routine, annual train trip to Bible conference.
November 14, 2017 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Two Christians face charges of kidnapping and forcible conversion in India after Hindu extremists attacked them and children on their way to a youth Bible conference by train, sources said. The Hindu extremists later savagely beat Christian parents trying to regain custody of their children at a police station, the […]
Hindu Extremists Beat Pastor Unconscious in Southern India after ‘Miraculous’ Conversions
Assailants were masked, but they had threatened him before, he says.
November 5, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Weeks after a pastor led five families to faith in Christ in southern India, masked men on motorbikes intercepted him on his way home from worship and tried to kill him, sources said. Pastor Banothu Sevya, 26, was in a coma for 48 hours after the drunken Hindu extremists beat him […]
Officials, Police in Tamil Nadu State, India Halt Worship in 10 Churches
Hindu extremists compel authorities to act.
November 1, 2017 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Officials and police in Tamil Nadu state, India, have ordered 10 churches to discontinue worship services, sources said. Hindu extremists compelled state officials and police to issue orders to the churches in Coimbatore District to stop worship unless they obtain permission from the collector’s office, and the extremists intend to […]
Torture of Pastor in India Ruins Livelihood, Hearing – but Not His Faith
Hindu extremists pressure police to file false charge against couple, sources say.
October 27, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Uttar Pradesh, India has lost hearing in one ear after Hindu extremists tortured him, pressured police to falsely charge him and prevented doctors from treating him, sources said. Pastor Abhay Sagar, 37, of Biswan town in Sitapur District in the northern state, was about to begin preaching on […]
Christian Teenager in India Arrested for Comments on Fake Facebook, Sources Say
First-year university student charged with posting anti-Hindu comments.
October 16, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A Christian teenager in northern India was jailed for 12 days after anti-Hindu comments appeared on a fake Facebook account in his name, sources said. Sandeep Kumar, 18, christened Karan Anthony, was released on bail 12 days after being arrested on Aug. 23 and charged with posting anti-Hindu comments on […]
Pastor in India Perseveres amid Persecution by Hindu Extremists
Assailants demand he renounce Christ for savage beating to end.
August 31, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A band of Hindu extremists who had snuck into a house-church service beat a pastor with steel rods and sticks, one of them yelling that they would stop if he shouted, “Hail, Lord Ram [Jai Sri Ram]!” “I remained mum,” pastor Harjot Singh Sethi, 26, told Morning Star News. “I […]
Pastors in India Put Trust in God amid Persecution
Jailed, beaten church leaders keep their sights upward.
August 16, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – As two Hindu extremists gripped his hands while others beat him last week in northern India, Pastor Amar Stephen was asking God to forgive them. “Some attackers were holding both my hands so I couldn’t move, while others in the mob beat me,” he told Morning Star News. “At that […]