HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Forcing them to pose like Christ on the cross, police last week beat Christians in custody on baseless charges in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state, sources said. On March 15 a church of 200 people was immersed in a Sunday service when 30 Hindu extremists brandishing hockey sticks and […]
Christians Suffer Police Brutality, Illegal Arrests in Uttar Pradesh, India
Church members forced to pose like Christ on the cross during beating.
March 22, 2020 By -
Fearing for Children’s Lives, Christian Family in India Refrains from Reporting Assault to Police
Expelled and homeless in jungle, 9-year-old girl is attacked and threatened.
March 16, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists in central India drove a Christian family into the jungle last week, with one later intercepting their 9-year-old girl and threatening to kill her if she went to school again, her father said. On Wednesday (March 11), two days after an attack expelling the Christians from Bilood […]
Christian Rohingya Refugees Attacked, Kidnapped in Bangladesh
Pastor and daughter abducted, makeshift church building destroyed.
March 11, 2020 By -
YANGON, Burma (Morning Star News) – A rights group has confirmed reports that suspected Muslim, ethnic Rohingya beat and kidnapped Rohingya Christians on Jan. 26-27 in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. At least 12 Rohingya Christians were hospitalized with injuries from an attack in Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar District on the evening of […]
Christian Leader in Madhya Pradesh, India Run Over by Motorcycles, Sources Say
Church elder attacked after dropping his son off at school.
March 8, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Violence against Christians in India hit a new level on March 4 when Hindu extremists ran their motorcycles over a key evangelical leader after beating him, sources said. Armed with bamboo rods and a thick metal chain with a heavy lock on it, the 10 Hindu nationalists in Sehore, […]
Tribal Villagers in India Beat Christian Family, Destroy Food Supply
Evangelist with injured relatives in hospital, afraid to go home.
March 2, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Not finding the Christian evangelist they planned to attack at home, worshippers of village deities in central-eastern India beat his mother, wife and 11-month-old son and destroyed a year’s food supply, sources said. Podiya Tati’s mother, Jimmey Tati, has been in a hospital bed in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh state […]
Muslim Landowner Tortures Young Christian Man to Death in Pakistan, Sources Say
Field worker attacked for ‘polluting’ tube-well, relatives say.
February 28, 2020 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A young Christian man died today after a Muslim landowner on Tuesday (Feb. 25) chained and tortured him, accusing him of “polluting” his tube-well water by rinsing in it, sources said. Saleem Masih, 22, had finished unloading chaff in fields in Baguyana village, Karsur District, some 50 kilometers (31 […]
False Accusations Seriously Disrupt Lives of Eight Acquitted Christians in India
Trauma, lost income; 17-year-old still awaiting trial.
February 28, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – False charges against eight Christians acquitted on Feb. 19 of kidnapping and forcible conversion in central India have traumatized families and cost them jobs, sources said. Schoolteacher Amiya Jal, one of the Christians arrested on May 22, 2017 for allegedly abducting and forcefully converting 59 children, was suspended from […]
Christians Suffer Two Months of Abuse in Jail on Baseless Charges in India
Police find no evidence for accusations but yield to Hindu extremist pressure.
February 25, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Three Christians in northern India spent more than two months in jail suffering abuse from other prisoners, even though police found no evidence of wrongdoing and the complainant retracted his accusation, sources said. In Uttar Pradesh state’s Mau District, 23-year-old pastor Ajay Kumar, fellow pastor Om Prakash, 20, and […]
Church Decimated after Upper-Caste Hindus Stir Hostilities in Andhra Pradesh, India
Christians too fearful to show up after attacks.
February 13, 2020 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Attacks and harassment of a house church in southern India have decimated the 40-member congregation and left the pastor injured and demoralized. Pastor Eswara Rao Appalabattula on Jan. 27 pleaded with about a dozen local residents to stop building a wall meant to block people from attending worship services […]
Court in Pakistan Validates Forced Conversion, Marriage of Christian Girl to Muslim
Underage victim continually kept from appearing at hearings.
February 12, 2020 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A high court ruling in Pakistan validating the marriage and forced conversion to Islam of a 14-year-old Christian girl has heightened fears that it will encourage others to commit such crimes, sources said. The High Court in Sindh Province on Feb. 3 dismissed a petition to have the marriage […]