HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Animists in central India last week told five Christian families they would lose their harvest lands unless they returned to their tribal religion and beat them when they refused, sources said. When the families answered a summons to a meeting with Salhephal village leaders in Bastar District, Chhattisgarh state […]
Christian Families Summoned, Beaten and Threatened with Death in Chhattisgarh, India
Christ-followers in various villages refuse to renounce faith.
May 11, 2020 By -
False Allegations in Lynching in Western India Pose Threat to Christians
Hindu nationalists stir up anti-Christian sentiment.
May 5, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – An attempt by Hindu nationalists and media in western India to blame Christians for the mob killing of three Hindus threatens to provoke violence against Christians, sources said. A tribal mob on April 16 killed the three men, two of them Hindu ascetics, in Gadchinchale village, Palghar District in […]
Expectations of Justice Low for Grieving Family of Street Sweeper in Pakistan
Christian sanitation workers face dangers from roads and coronavirus.
May 1, 2020 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – When a Christian sanitation worker died after a police car struck him last week in Gujranwala, Pakistan, officers compensated his impoverished family with the equivalent of US$620. Rights advocates fear the Christian family likely will be forced to pardon the driver. The case typifies the discrimination and dangers that […]
Police Arrest Pastor on Fabricated Charges in Pakistan, Sources Say
Presbyterian minister upset officer by complaining of police wrong-doing.
April 27, 2020 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Presbyterian assistant pastor Sarfaraz Raja was preparing to deliver a Good Friday sermon in Pakistan on April 10 when his brother informed him by phone that police had intruded into his house and were harassing his mother and other family members. Upset that the pastor had complained of police […]
Pastor in Central India Attacked for Police Report on Prior Assault, Expulsion
Family still living in open air after tribal animists drove them from home.
April 24, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists in central India who demolished a pastor’s house and drove him and his family out of their village in March seriously injured him in an assault this month, he said. After beating, choking and pelting pastor Lalu Kirade with a stone in the April 3 attack, the tribal […]
Gunmen Shoot, Wound Daughter of Pastor Slain in 2015 in Eastern India
Family members are told they had not ‘learned lesson.’
April 21, 2020 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A gunman at the door of a Christian family’s home in eastern India on Thursday (April 16) shot the daughter of a pastor who was killed in the same house five years ago, family members said. Neelam Purty, 25, sustained bullet wounds in her thumb and thigh in the […]
Christian Beaten into Coma by Tribal Animists in Odisha State, India
Shunned, impoverished family threatened with starvation.
April 7, 2020 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A young mother and her two children were staring at her husband as he lay unconscious after a mob of 60 villagers in eastern India had stormed their home and beaten him with wooden sticks. “The children and I tried to wake him up – we thought he had […]
Police in Nepal Falsely Charge Pastors with Violating Coronavirus Lockdown, Sources Say
Cases of using COVID-19 as pretext for arresting church leaders rises to three.
April 3, 2020 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Police arrested two pastors in Nepal on Saturday (March 28), falsely charging them with holding worship services amid the Himalayan country’s lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, sources said. Police jumped over a locked gate and intruded into the Nissi Church building in Surkhet District, Karnali Province as […]
Police Detain Christians Providing Aid to the Poor in Tamil Nadu, India
Hindu nationalist beats church members, officer slaps them, pastor says.
March 30, 2020 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Police in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state rushed to a slum where Christians were providing food and other aid earlier this month and detained them on false charges of forcible conversion, sources said. Marakkanam police in Viluppuram District humiliated the Christians, including the presbyter of the Viluppuram Church of […]
Police in Nepal Arrest Pastor for Touting Healing Prayer amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Church leader jailed after video appears of him encouraging congregation.
March 26, 2020 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Police in Nepal arrested a Christian pastor this week, accusing him of giving false information about COVID-19 by saying Christian prayer could bring healing from the disease, sources said. Pastor Keshab Acharya, 32, was taken into custody on Monday (March 23) from his home in Pokhara, Gandaki Pradesh Province, […]