NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christian families driven from their village in India’s Jharkhand state have returned home with police help, but tribal people instigated by Hindu extremists are still bent on expelling them, sources said. Hindu extremists last month mobilized tribal groups to banish the Christian families from Kullu village in Chanho Block, Ranchi […]
Hindu Extremists Instigate Tribal People against Christians in Jharkhand, India
Five families and pastor threatened, banished.
July 11, 2015 By -
Nun in Chhattisgarh, India Says Two Masked Men Bound, Raped Her
Christians protest official downplay of severity, religious motives of attack.
June 25, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Contrary to police reports, a nun with her face covered said yesterday at a press conference in Chhattisgarh state that two men raped her at a medical clinic in Raipur on Saturday (June 20). The unidentified, 47-year-old nun told media that two masked men entered her room at the Christ […]
Hindu Extremist Attack in Assam State, India Depletes Village of Christians
Church members flee area after mob assault on men, women and children.
April 30, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Church members have fled a village in northeast India after a vicious attack this month that seriously injured at least three Christians, including a 7-year-old girl. A mob of about 100 Hindu extremists armed with swords, bamboo sticks and stones attacked Christians who were eating after a service at 8 p.m. on […]
Bones Broken in Attack on Evangelistic Gathering in Telangana State, India
Christian leaders file formal complaint of police inaction.
April 20, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christians sustained broken bones and wounds when Hindu extremists on April 8 attacked an open-air gospel event in Telangana state, India, sources said. Police initially refused to help church members after the mob of about 100 Hindu extremists seriously injured four Christians in the attack in Pebbair, Mahabubnagar District, they […]
Hindu Extremists Block Good Friday Service, Beat Christians in Uttar Pradesh, India
Pastor ordered to vacate rented property.
April 10, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Under pressure from Hindu extremists, local officials kept a church from meeting on Good Friday (April 3) in India’s Uttar Pradesh state and ordered the pastor to vacate the property, the church leader said. Pastor Daniel Singh of Salvation for Asia Church in Swar, near Rampur, told Morning Star News his two-year […]
Christians in Haryana, India Hit with Beatings, Official Opposition, Discrimination
Christian loses his job after Hindu extremists publically revile his faith.
March 30, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A rash of anti-Christian attacks this month hit Haryana state in northern India, where a new chief minister spoke against Christians and 45 were severely beaten at a burial service. A mob of more than 700 Hindu extremists on March 6 assaulted the 45 Christians as they began burial rites […]
Incidents against Christians in India Jump 55 Percent Under Modi, EFI Figures Show
Hostile tone of Hindu nationalist government emboldens Hindu extremists.
March 24, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The number of incidents against Christians in India has increased 55 percent since Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi became prime minister in May 2014, according to figures from the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI). During a protest by religious minorities near India’s Parliament House on Thursday (March 19), rights activist and […]
Rape of Elderly Nun in India Premeditated, Police Report Indicates
Gunmen deliberately targeted Christianity, church leaders say.
March 22, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal was a planned part of an attack on a Christian institution and not merely an after-thought in a robbery as portrayed in mainstream media, Christian leaders say. A police report submitted to the state government said the suspects in the incident […]
Days after Police Brutality in Rajasthan, India, Hindu Extremists Attack in M.P.
Prime minister’s talk of religious freedom rings hollow, Christians say.
March 10, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Days after police tortured 20 Christians in India’s northwestern state of Rajasthan, Hindu extremists in Madhya Pradesh struck two churches in four days. In central India’s Madhya Pradesh, where a law against forced or fraudulent conversions is routinely invoked to harass Christians – though none has ever been found guilty – members […]
Hindu Extremists Strive to Mortify, Malign Christians in Jharkhand State, India
Accusation of child molestation in one case, tearing of woman’s clothes in another.
February 20, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in India this month sought to shame and malign Christians, as four women were publicly beaten in one village and a teacher was falsely accused of child molestation in another, sources said. In India’s eastern state of Jharkhand, 11 assailants dragged four Christian women from their prayer meeting […]