NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal villagers in eastern India assaulted three Christian families and destroyed their homes on Easter Sunday (April 17), sources said. The assailants, followers of tribal nature-worshipping religion, were upset that the Christian families in Odisha state’s Ejariguda village, Malkangiri District, were preparing for Easter rather than their traditional festival, said […]
Christians Left without Homes after Easter Attack in India
Yearly supply of food destroyed.
May 13, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
18 Christians in India Jailed, Fight False Charge of Five Years Ago
Widow among church members arrested over baseless accusation.
May 4, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christians falsely charged with crimes related to an act of vandalism in central India five years ago spent five days in jail and are fighting the case anew after it mysteriously resurfaced, sources said. The 18 Christians, including a widow, in Chhattisgarh state’s Bhelwapal village, Sukma District, were jailed March […]
Assaulted Pastor in India Faces Baseless Charges, Death Threats
Leader of closed church still recovering from injuries.
April 4, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Still recovering from injuries at the hands of a Hindu extremist-led mob that beat him unconscious in January, a pastor in central India faces death threats, landlords who refuse to rent to him and baseless charges of forcible conversion, sources said. “Kailash Dudwe was brutally assaulted to the extent of […]
Christian Pastor Slashed, Shot to Death in Central India
Assailants stating they are Maoists leave note on body.
March 29, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Six masked men in central India this month killed one of 22 Christians a Maoist group had warned to “leave the pastorship,” sources said. Pastor Yalam Shankar was slashed and shot to death the evening of March 17 outside his home in Angampalli village, Bijapur District, Chhattisgarh state in front […]
Pastor Tied to Post, Beaten in Delhi, India
Police slow to act in Hindu extremist attack, he says.
March 9, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in the National Capital Territory of Delhi last month tied a pastor to a post at a busy intersection and beat him before hundreds of people, but police have yet to make arrests, sources said. Accusing Pastor Kelom Kalyan Tete of forcible conversion as they beat him, Hindu […]
Hindu Extremists Try to Kill Pastor, Wife in Northern India, He Says
Villagers accuse church leader of fraudulent conversion.
March 3, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Pastor Rakesh Babu was about to go to bed one night earlier this year in northern India when eight Hindu extremists broke into his house, beat and choked him and slit his wife’s throat, he said. The eight assailants, including two women, who had accused him of luring people to […]
Hardline Hindu Neighbors Attack Pastors in Northern India
Extremists beat them, burn Bible.
February 7, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Hindu extremist mob on Jan. 28 attacked two pastors in northern India, setting the Bible of one on fire as he blacked out from the beating, he said. Accusing the pastors of luring the family they were visiting with money to convert, the hardline Hindus attacked Pastor Sanjay Kumar […]
Hostility toward Christians Grows in District in Northern India
Attacks can happen in home worship or shopping for groceries.
January 26, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Intense opposition to Christianity grew in an area of northern India in the past month as a Hindu mob invited news media to record them reviling a house church gathering, and another pastor and his family were driven from their home, sources said. Intending to stir public sentiment against Christians, […]
Young Christian Family Forms amid Persecution in Nepal
Couple driven together by Hindu hostility toward their faith.
January 11, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A young father knows the intensity of Hindu opposition to Christianity in his native Nepal – it temporarily took his newborn son from him and has left his young family homeless for nearly two years. Having moved in with his parents after the birth of his son, Pawan (surname withheld […]
Hindu Nationalists Stop Christmas Services in Northern India
Extremists spoil celebrations of Christ’s birth throughout Haryana state.
January 5, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI, India (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in northern India launched an attack on a house church service on Dec. 25 that seriously injured a pastor’s son, one of at least 10 cases of aggression in Haryana state that stopped Christmas celebrations for hundreds of Christians. Pastor J.J. Singh, a Christian leader in Haryana […]