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 […]
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 -
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 […]
Police Contribute to Hindu Extremist Violence in India
Officer hits Christian for reporting assailants who beat pastor unconscious, church members say.
December 12, 2012 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Refusing to register a complaint against Hindu extremists who stoned and beat a pastor until he was unconscious, police in Madhya Pradesh state also struck a Christian who tried to report the attack, area church leaders said. Four police officers on Nov. 30 broke into the worship service of […]
Attackers in India’s Most Violent State Follow Christians even to Hospitals
Victims threatened as they try to recover.
November 23, 2012 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christians in India’s most religiously intolerant state have witnessed heightened violence in the past several weeks, including Hindu extremists attempting to slit the throat of a pastor as he lay hospitalized from a previous attack, sources said. Ruled by the Hindu extremist-backed Bharatiya Janata Party in a country […]
Pastor Beaten Unconscious in New Delhi, India
Police slow to respond to Hindu extremist attack.
October 20, 2012 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists attacked a pastor and his family at their home in North West Delhi on Sunday morning (Oct. 14), continuing to beat him even after he fell unconscious, according to area Christians. Samuel Prasad said about 10 extremists began by hurling stones and woodblocksat the house of his […]