NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Uttarakhand state, India last week passed an amendment to its controversial anti-conversion law expanding punishment to life imprisonment. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government managed to introduce the Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2025 during an assembly session that turned chaotic over alleged Panchayat (local council) rigging. The […]
India’s Harshest Anti-Conversion Law Approved in Uttarakhand
Life imprisonment prescribed for ‘forced conversion.’
August 26, 2025 By -
Nuns in India Jailed, Christians Assaulted amid Baseless Charges
Hindu extremists fabricate ‘human trafficking’ allegations, victims say.
August 15, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Falsely accusing two nuns and a Christian man of trafficking three women in India, Hindu extremists with threats and assault forced the three tribal Christian women to sign a statement against their companions, sources said. “We will gang rape you if you do not do as we say,” the members […]
Pastors Beaten in Custody after Arrests in India
Police detain Christians after Hindu nationalists disrupt worship.
August 4, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Five of six pastors jailed in central-eastern India on July 20 after false allegations of forcible conversion were assaulted in custody so severely they have laceration scars, sources said. Pastor Moses Logan of Bhilai, Durg District, Chhattisgarh state said the jailor and guards at Durg jail beat the five other […]
Lawmaker in India Offers Reward for Attacking Christians
Bishops condemn law enforcement’s failure to respond.
July 31, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – India’s Catholic bishops this week strongly condemned law enforcement for failing to prosecute a state legislator who publicly offered up to $12,663 USD (1.1 million rupees) for violent attacks on Christian leaders. The Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) expressed “deep anguish and alarm over the growing climate of hostility […]
Pastors and other Christians Brutalized in Odisha State, India
Adherents of tribal religion ambush 20 church leaders.
July 29, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The father of one of 20 pastors ambushed in eastern India last month was soaked in blood from the attack as he told his son, “I don’t think I will make it. I just want you to know that I will be with my Maker, and you should not worry […]
Church Members in India Fear Attending Worship after Assault
Already decimated congregation further shrinks.
July 4, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in central India on June 8 ransacked a church’s worship building, burned Bibles and assaulted every member, causing one to lose consciousness, sources said. In Chhattisgarh state’s Dhamtari District, the Hindu nationalists attacked during the independent Penial Prayer Fellowship’s worship service in Borsi village, said Pastor Wakish Sahu, […]
Fate of Christian Refugees India Cast into Sea Still Unknown
Relatives of Rohingya cast-offs devastated.
July 1, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Relatives of ethnic Rohingya Christian refugees cast into the sea by India’s navy have yet to hear from them nearly two months after the cast-offs swam ashore to their native Myanmar (Burma). “If someone could just tell us if they are alive or dead – this anxiety is killing us,” […]
Churches Targeted on Easter in India Remain Closed
Landlord pressured into refusing congregation use of building.
June 3, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – More than a month after Hindu nationalist groups in India targeted two Christian congregations on Easter, the churches remain shut while awaiting police action, sources said. The Hindu extremists intimidated congregation members and leaders at both churches in the western coastal state of Gujarat, and one of the churches was […]
Christians Driven from Homes in India Threatened with Death
Tribal religion followers terrify church members.
May 13, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Villagers practicing tribal religion who assaulted Christian families and drove them from their homes in central India for practicing their faith have threatened to kill them if they return, sources said. In Sukma District, Chhattisgarh state, the Christian families were assaulted, threatened and forcibly expelled from their homes for their […]
Christians in India Charged after Hindu Nationalist Attack
Police again prosecute victims of assault on church.
April 30, 2025 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian charged under India’s anti-conversion law after Hindu nationalists attacked a church is seeking anticipatory bail from the Supreme Court of India. Rajesh Sharma said his plea for anticipatory bail was rejected in Chhattisgarh state’s lower and high courts. Sharma and the others were booked after a mob of […]