NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When Laxmi Sovi, a Christian widow in India’s Chhattisgarh state, heard her door opening one morning last month, she could not have guessed that by the next day she would be hospitalized and her home demolished. Three Hindu extremists identified only as Veeru, Chaytu and Mangru barged into Sovi’s house […]
Christian Widows in India Beaten for Refusing to ‘Reconvert’ to Hinduism
One left homeless; another dragged to Hindu temple, left unconscious.
September 11, 2013 By -
Hindu Extremists Attack Pastor’s Mother in India
Assailants threaten to ‘cut to pieces’ ministry leader, wife.
August 19, 2013 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Reena Behl answered the doorbell of the home she shares with her son and his wife in Rajasthan state at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday (Aug. 13), and four men wearing motorcycle helmets demanded to see her son, a pastor. Because of the helmets, the 51-year-old resident of Rajapark, Jaipur, could […]
Bill Passes in India Jailing Converts, Clergy for Failure to Give Prior Notice of Conversion
Madhya Pradesh legislature approves amendment to ‘anti-conversion’ law.
July 23, 2013 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – India’s Madhya Pradesh state has passed legislation that would send those who convert and their religious leaders to prison for failing to obtain permission from authorities at least one month prior to conversion. The bill requires the governor’s signature before becoming law. Existing law in Madhya Pradesh requires those who […]
Assault on Pastors’ Meeting in India Shows Depth of Extremist Hostility
Hindu nationalists in Andhra Pradesh presume engagement in ‘forceful conversion.’
June 26, 2013 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Even in a state with no “anti-conversion” law, Hindu extremists in Andhra Pradesh this month leveled the accusation of forceful conversion at pastors as they belted the Christian leaders with iron bars. At their monthly prayer gathering in Thukkugudu, Hyderabad, on June 4 about 20 pastors from various denominations were […]
Police Back Off Statement of Religious Motive in Murder of Christian in India
Investigator also denies tribal ritual took place before slaying; a more senior officer says it did.
June 7, 2013 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police in India’s remote Tripura state are backing away from earlier statements that the Christian faith of a convert from Hinduism was a factor in his murder. Days after the beheaded body of 35-year-old Tapas Bin was found in a stream in the Teliamura area of West Tripura District on […]
Christians in India Wounded, Jailed, Expelled
Extremists in three states put Hindu nationalism, tribal custom over religious freedom.
March 21, 2013 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christians suffered serious head injuries, expulsion from home and incarceration based on false witness as Hindu extremists continued their reign of terror in India this month, sources said. In the southern state of Kerala, some 100 Hindu extremists on March 10 attacked a Brethren Assembly church service in Chirayinkeezzh […]
Two Pastors in India Arrested after Being Beaten, Threatened
Hindu nationalist mob tries to force them to worship idols in temple.
February 15, 2013 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Pastor Mallik Arjun knew something was wrong when he received a call from the mobile phone of his friend and fellow pastor in Gadag District, Karnataka state – but it was a stranger on the other end of the line. The stranger told him that pastor Nagesh Naik was […]
Violence against Christians Spreading in India
Maharashtra state increasingly vulnerable, rights leaders say.
February 11, 2013 By -
MUMBAI, India (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremist attacks on Christians in Maharashtra state could expand even as violence elsewhere in India grows in areas where extremist groups had not beeen so active, Christian leaders said. Ram Puniyani of the All India Secular Forum said at press conference in Mumbai this month that Maharashtra is […]
Under-Reporting Obscures Martyrdom of Christians in India
Anti-Christian hostility disputed in three of four deaths.
January 28, 2013 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Four Christians in India died for their faith last year, but incomplete information obscured the anti-Christian hostility in three of the deaths, sources said. In Tamil Nadu and West Bengal states where the killings took place, area Christians assert that the murders were rooted in opposition to Christianity; specifically, […]
Attacked Christians in India Fear Returning Home
After assault on church, more than 100 tribal people in Maharashtra state flee.
January 14, 2013 By -
MUMBAI, India (Morning Star News) – After Hindu nationalists in Maharashtra state attacked Christians two weeks ago because they refused to honor a tribal deity – violence that led many to flee their homes – the extremists yesterday assaulted remaining Christians as they met for worship, sources said. As police stood by watching, about […]