UCA News | October 26, 2020 A Christian man was shot dead and three people were injured when assailants entered a Pentecostal church and opened fire indiscriminately in India's Punjab…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | October 24, 2020 Suspected Hindu extremists set fire to a church in India’s Andhra Pradesh state, burning it to the ground because local…
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | October 12, 2020 Church groups and civil society leaders in India are protesting against the arrest of an 83-year-old Jesuit priest by the country’s…
Save the Persecuted Christians | October 11, 2020 Senators Demand “Targeted Sanctions” Against Indian Agencies and Officials Responsible for Increased Persecution of Minorities WASHINGTON—Save the Persecuted Christians, which advocates on behalf…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | September 23, 2020 A church planter in India’s Maharashtra state was brutally killed by Hindu extremists after suffering years of abuse for his…
Faithwire | Andrea Morris | September 22, 2020 Police in northern India told a pastor to stop worshipping inside his home and forced him to sign a document assuring that…
TAB Media | September 20, 2020 A Christian mother of four was killed in July for refusing to let her daughter be raped by Hindu men. Two masked Hindus slit…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | September 11, 2020 Amid another crackdown on foreign aid, India has canceled six Christian organizations’ licenses to receive donations from outside the country…
Rome Reports | September 9, 2020 Indian society is divided into different castes. At the bottom of the social hierarchy are the Dalits, traditionally considered unclean and untouchable. That's why…
CBN News | George Thomas | August 31, 2020 Christians in India are facing horrific levels of violence from Hindu radical extremists. This deadly campaign coincides with an Indian…
Forward Press | Goldy George | August 26, 2020 In 2008, Kandhamal, Odisha witnessed unprecedented hostility in which 56,000 people were left homeless, and 308 churches were destroyed, at least…
International Christian Concern | August 26, 2020 On August 21, Pastor Prasanna Kumar, whose name has been changed for security reasons, was attacked and brutally beaten by radical Hindu nationalists…
Frontline | Zaya Salam | August 18 2020 At least two reports by Christian organisations in India say that life has been precarious for the members of the minority community during…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | August 18, 2020 While praying, a Christian pastor and his family were brutally attacked by radical Hindu extremists wielding sharp weapons amid an uptick…
Christian Headlines | John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera | August 17, 2020 In late July, the body of Pastor Balvinder Bagicha Bhatti was found on the side of the road…
Christianity Today | August 3, 2020 The persecution of Christians in India intensified to "alarming" levels in the first half of 2020, a human rights group reports. Hate crimes against…
Persecution Relief | July 29, 2020 ‘CHRISTIAN MINOR LYNCHED, WOMEN & MEN MURDERED, EXCOMMUNICATION IS AT ALL TIME HIGH, CHURCH BUILDINGS BURNED, PRIESTS ATTACKED, THE LIST GOES ON; ITS HIGH…
UCA | July 29, 2020 Two women were raped and killed among six Christians murdered for their faith in India in the first half of this year, according to a…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | July 22, 2020 Tribal animists in India brutally beat three Christian families before driving them from the village over the believers' refusal to…
Barnabas Fund | July 21, 2020 In the first half of 2020 the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) recorded 135 cases of targeted violence and discrimination against Christians, including three murders, according…
International Christian Concern | July 17, 2020 In just over a month, four Christians, including a woman, a teenager, and a pastor, were killed in India because of their faith.…
Church Times | Henrietta Blyth | July 15, 2020 IN JULY 1955, a young Evangelical preacher, Anne van der Bijl — aka Brother Andrew, “God’s Smuggler” — took his first…
UCA News | Saji Thomas, Kochi | July 14, 2020 Church leaders in India have condemned the murder of a Protestant minister, the third in less than a month in…
International Christian Concern | July 14, 2020 According to Asia News, Munshi Dev Tado, a young Indian missionary, was brutally murdered by a Maoist group in the Gadchiroli district of…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | July 9, 2020 Christian families in India have been forced to flee their homes following a series of mob attacks against a Christian prayer…
CBN News | Andrea Morris | June 29, 2020 India has seen a sudden increase in attacks on Christians as more people are circulating since the COVID-19 lockdown was lifted.…
International Christian Concern | June 26, 2020 As India gradually emerges from its national lockdown, International Christian Concern (ICC) has documented a sudden spike in attacks on Christians across the…
Morning Star News | June 19, 2020 His father away from home due in part to coronavirus travel restrictions, a 12-year-old boy in Uttar Pradesh, India heard relatives angry at…
International Christian Concern | June 15, 2020 On June 12, 2020, an independent church in the state of Tamil Nadu, southern India, was set on fire on Friday night by…
Aljazeera | June 11, 2020 India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the government firmly repudiated the surveys of the USCIRF, which had little knowledge of the rights of Indian citizens, describing…
Christian Headlines | June 11, 2020 Incited by Hindu extremists, followers of traditional tribal religion in eastern India last week stabbed and stoned a 16-year-old Christian boy to death for…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | June 9, 2020 A Christian convert teenager in the Odisha state of India was killed last Thursday by a group of religious fanatics in…
Mission Network News | Katey Hearth | June 8, 2020 COVID-19 cases surge in South Asia with no slowdown in sight. On Friday, India recorded its highest death toll since the…
FIACONA | June 8, 2020 The Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations (FIACONA) has come to know that a 14-year-old Christian boy, Samaru Madkami, was murdered by a group of…
International Christian Concern | June 2, 2020 On Thursday, May 28, Pastor Dinesh Kumar was brutally beaten by radical Hindu nationalists in the Mau district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Pastor…
Premier Christian | June 1, 2020 Three Indian Christians families have been brutally attacked by Hindu nationalists as they slept. According to reports, a group of 15 attackers entered the…
International Christian Concern | May 25, 2020 An ordinance issued by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had many Christians, Muslims, and Parsees concerned about how those that died of…
Christian Post | Lela Gilbert and Arielle Del Turco | May 23, 2020 For many westerners, India is an exotic travel destination, offering colorful cultural sites and warm-hearted hospitable people.…
ACLJ | Jordan Sekulow | May 19, 2020 After more than seven months of being wrongfully detained in India, Christian Pastor Bryan Nerren – a U.S. citizen – has finally…
The Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | May 13, 2020 As many Christians and other non-Hindus in India are being denied government-issued food rations amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…