HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – When Hindu extremists in India told pastor Karma Oraon they would not stop beating him until he worshipped the monkey god, he felt Christ close to him, he said. “In those moments when they were kicking and beating me, I felt that even if I die now, the Lord will […]
Pastors Draw Close to God as Tribal Churches Are Attacked in India
Indigenous leaders appear to join forces with Hindu nationalists to assault Christians.
January 15, 2018 By -
Police, Hindu Extremists Halt Christmas Celebrations in Uttar Pradesh, India
Militant Hindu nationalists feel free to attack under BJP government.
January 8, 2018 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Summoned to a police station after Hindu extremists stopped his church’s worship last month, a pastor in northern India brought some 50 Christians with him to help plead for his rights. But 45-year-old pastor David Amarnath of Pathakpur village in Bhadohi District, Uttar Pradesh state, was taken aback by what […]
Christians in India Strive to Overcome Typical Entrapment Scheme
Hindu extremists increasingly trying to frame pastors.
December 26, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – After being framed on false charges earlier this year, two Christians in eastern India recently spent a month in jail, where inmates beat them after discovering they were accused of defiling Hinduism, sources said. Months after two Hindu extremists in Bihar state tried – and failed – to trap pastor […]
Hindu Extremists Block, Disrupt Large-Scale Prayer Service in India
In neighboring state, Christmas carolers arrested.
December 22, 2017 By -
DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in Chhattisgarh state this month kept hundreds of Christians from a prayer service and attacked those who managed to attend, and in neighboring Madhya Pradesh a frivolous accusation led to the arrest of Christmas carol singers, sources said. At a prayer service where 2,000 people were expected in Tarra […]
Police Complicit in Hindu Extremist Attack on Christians in Tamil Nadu, India, Sources Say
Hindu nationalist group denies working with police to stop Christianity.
December 19, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Police arrested Christians who were attacked by Hindu nationalists in Tamil Nadu state, India, then tried to portray the incident as a fight between two parties, sources said. The Hindu extremists savagely beat four Christians, including a woman whose hand they fractured, for conducting a pre-Christmas charity event for destitute […]
Christians Beaten, Falsely Charged and Jailed in Mob Attack in India, Sources Say
Come, let us burn them alive,’ Hindu extremists shout.
December 14, 2017 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Seven Christians in India have been booked on charges of hurting religious feelings after Hindu extremists savagely beat them when they gathered to pray for a sick man at his home, sources said. Police in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh state on Dec. 4 charged the six Christian men and one woman […]
Hindu Extremists Beat Pastors, Stop Gospel Event in Chhattisgarh State, India
Police complicit in harassment, Christian leaders say.
December 11, 2017 By -
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, […]
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 […]