INDIA – Thousands Protest Over Proposed Jesus Christ Statue In Karnataka
Eurasia News | EurAsian Times | Jan. 14, 2020 Hundreds of Hindu activists affiliated to the RSS protested on Monday to oppose a planned statue of Jesus Christ in Karnataka…
INDIA – Christian prayer hall dedicated to Jesus Christ attacked by Hindu radicals
Christian Post | Samuel Smith| Jan. 01, 2020 A Christian community hall in India’s predominantly Hindu West Bengal state was attacked by Hindu radicals during a launch ceremony, according to…
INDIA – 2 more Christian martyrs in India
Christian Post | Michael Brown, CP Op-Ed Contributor | Dec. 07, 2019 You might never know their names. But you need to hear their stories. Two more pastors have been…
INDIA – Five Christians in Northeast India Beaten After Refusing to Recant Christian Faith
International Christian Concern | Nov. 6, 2019 Last Friday, November 1, five Christians from India’s Odisha state were beaten mercilessly with bamboo rods after they refused to recant their Christian…
INDIA – U.S. Pastor Stranded in India Awaiting Hearing
Word & Way | Morning Star News correspondent | Nov. 5, 2019 Tennessee pastor Bryan Nerren, shown with his wife Rhonda and their children, is stranded in India awaiting a…
INDIA / USA – Tennessee pastor arrested and stranded in India, attorney says
Tennessean | Natalie Neysa Alund and Brinley Hineman | Oct. 30, 2019 A Middle Tennessee pastor has been arrested in India and is unable to return to the U.S. due to alleged religious…
WORLDWIDE – Report: Persecution of Christians worse in Asia; Mideast might not recover
Catholic Philly | Bronwen Dachs for CNS | Oct. 28,2019 Egyptian Muslims cry as ambulances transport the bodies of victims killed after a Dec. 11, 2016, explosion inside the Coptic…
INDIA – Hindu Extremists Beat Pastor Unconscious in Gujarat State, India
Morning Star News | India Correspondent | Oct. 24, 2019 Hindu extremists assaulted pastor Ramesh Pargi in Dahod District, Gujarat state, India, on Oct. 22, 2019. (Morning Star News) NEW…
INDIA – BJP launches Ghar Wapasi in Andhra Pradesh
Times of India | Samdani MN | Oct. 20, 2019 SRISAILAM: Setting the focus on the next elections in Andhra Pradesh, BJP has launched Ghar Wapasi programme to counter to…
INDIA – Hindu Extremists, Police Shut Down Worship Services in Uttar Pradesh, India
BreakPoint | The Stream | Oct. 18, 2019 HYDERABAD, India – Police broke up a congregational gathering of 6,000 worshippers in northern India on Tuesday (Oct. 15) after Hindu extremists leveled…
PAKISTAN – Governor KP create hurdles for Edward College Peshawar
New Lens Pakistan | Kashif Nawab | Oct. 18, 2019 Shah Farman the KPK Governor resists the bid to return Edward College Peshawar to the mission despite, the PTI leaders…
RELEASE – Christians in India Continue to Face Grave Danger
***NEWS RELEASE*** | For Immediate Release | October 14, 2019 Save the Persecuted Christians:As Attacks on India’s Christians Ramp Up, Believers in Jesus Christ Are More at Risk Each Day…
INDIA – Term mob lynching comes from Bible, says Mohan Bhagwat
India Today | Oct. 8, 2019 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday patted the back of the Narendra Modi government and said that the government has the…
INDIA – Hindu radicals livestream attack on Christians to ‘make area free of Christianity’
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett |Sept. 30, 2019 Indian authorities jailed church leaders and their families after Hindu extremists disrupted a worship service, beat individuals, and livestreamed the events…
INDIA – 8 Christians arrested in Hindu mob’s brutal crackdown on house churches: report
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | September 28, 2019 A massive crackdown on house churches by radical Hindu groups has led to the jailing of at least eight Christians on…
INDIA – Over 1,000 incidents of Christian persecution in India reported since 2014; 219 in 2019
Christian Post | Samuel Smith|Sept. 27, 2019 A group of Christians meet together near their rebuilt church in Kandhamal. | John Fredricks WASHINGTON — Over 1,400 incidents of persecution against…
PAKISTAN – Asia Bibi, Modern Confessor of the Faith
National Catholic Register |by Nina Shea | Sept. 16th, 2019 COMMENTARY: A drama of faithfulness, courage and perseverance, in which good ultimately triumphs. It is also a window into the…
India – Hindu extremists rape 4-year-old daughter of pastor who refused to stop sharing the Gospel
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | Sept.11, 2019 Hindu extremists raped the 4-year-old daughter of a pastor in central India because he refused to stop sharing the Gospel, a…
PAKISTAN – Pakistani Police Allegedly Mock Christian Father’s Faith While Brutally Torturing Him to Death Over Four Days
FaithWire | By Will Maule | Sept. 10, 2019 A man has been tortured to death after being taken into custody by police in the Pakistani city of Lahore. On…
PAKISTAN – Asia Bibi Slams Blasphemy Laws in First Interview Since Release After Nearly a Decade on Death Row
CBN News | Will Maule, Faithwire | Sept. 7, 2019 A Pakistani woman who spent the best part of a decade on death row after being convicted of blasphemy has…
INDIA – Indian State Passes Dangerous ‘Anti-Conversion Law’
Persecution.org | Sept. 4, 2019 New Law Targets State’s Christian Minority International Christian Concern (ICC) learned that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led government of Himachal Pradesh, a state located…
INDIA – Watch: Bajrang Dal workers barge into Christian prayer meet at Worli school
Mumbai Mirror | By Alka DhupkarAlka Dhupkar | Sept. 4, 2019 Police issue notice to organisers asking them to seek permission in future. Workers from the Bajrang Dal – the youth…
PAKISTAN – Asia Bibi pleads for justice for victims of Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy laws as she plans to settle in Europe
Sunday Telegraph | Aug. 31, 2019 | Ben Farmer, Islamabad Waqar Gillani, Islamabad In her first ever newspaper interview, Asia Bibi said she had at times fallen into despair As…
INDIA – Second Wrongly Convicted Christian Released in Kandhamal, India Case Counts Cost
Morningstar News | Aug. 29, 2019 Journalist Anto Akkara with Bijaya Kumar Sanaseth (left) and Gornath Chalanseth. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When Bijaya Kumar Sanaseth went…
INDIA – Second Wrongly Convicted Christian Released in Kandhamal, India Case Counts Cost
Morningstar News | Aug. 29, 2019 Journalist Anto Akkara with Bijaya Kumar Sanaseth (left) and Gornath Chalanseth. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When Bijaya Kumar Sanaseth went…
USA & INDIA – Trump Meets Modi, No Discussion of Religious Freedom
Persecution | Aug. 29, 2019 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – While it is no surprise that geopolitical tensions and economic cooperation dominated President Trump’s recent discussions with Prime Minister Modi of…
PAKISTAN – Thirty Christian families threatened with expropriation by influential Muslim politicians in Faisalabad
Asia News | Aug. 27, 2019 Christian live in a slum near a bus station in Pakki Mar. The price of land has risen and the Mehmood brothers, wealthy landowners,…
USA & INDIA – International Wing of RSS Penetrates Government Offices Across America
OFMI | Aug. 26, 2019 US affiliate of Indian paramilitary hosts events with police, fire, elected officials USA: August 26, 2019 — Since August 9, the international wing of the…
RELEASE – Parents Battle Pakistani Justice System to Free 14-Year-Old Daughter Who Was Abducted and Forced Into Child Marriage
August 26, 2019 | For Immediate Release Save the Persecuted Christians Creates New ‘Warfare on Women’ Exhibit Telling Stories of Those Who Live Fractured Lives Because of Persecution WASHINGTON—The Christian…
AFGHANISTAN – Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Afghanistan and an Opportunity for the West
Aug. 21, 2019 | Gatestone Institute | Lawrence A. Franklin In its effort to sustain a pro-Western regime in Afghanistan, the United States might instead take advantage of an opportunity…
SRI LANKA – 176 children lost one or both parents in Sri Lanka Easter bombings
WorldWatch Monitor | Aug. 12, 2019 Woman kneels at altar, St Anthony’s shrine, Colombo where 54 died on Easter Sunday, 2019 (Credit: World Watch Monitor) At least 176 children lost…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians Remembers Slaughter of Pakistani Christians 10 Years Ago
August 8, 2019 | For Immediate Release Those Who Serve Christ Are No Safer Today, Advocates Say WASHINGTON—On Aug. 1, 2009, a mob of hundreds of extremists attacked Christian homes…
INDIA – Christians file case against Hindu extremists for persecution in India
Aug. 6, 2019 | Premier News UK Christian members of the 'Kattunaickar' Scheduled Tribe filed the case at the High Court at the Madras Madurai Bench in Tamil Nadu after…
PAKISTAN – Christian girl kidnapped, forced into Islamic marriage in Pakistan
Aug. 2, 2019 | Samuel Smith | Christian Post The parents of a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl who was abducted in July and forced into an Islamic marriage are now…
PAKISTAN – Young Christian Boy Beaten to Death by Muslim Employer
Aug 1, 2019 | Persecution News 08/01/2019 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – Badil, a ten-year-old Christian Pakistani boy, was working at factory to care for his mother and two brothers,…
INDIA – Reporting Persecution to Police a Vanishing Option for Christians in India
July 30, 2019 | Morning Star News Pastor Shelton Viswanathan was attacked in Sheohar District, Bihar state, India. (Morning Star News) HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Persecution of Christians in…
PAKISTAN – Christian girls continue to be abducted. The latest case involves a 14-year-old in Lahore converted under threat
July 26, 2019 | AsiaNews.it Benish Imran was kidnapped by a man who then forced her to embrace Islam. In court, she said she was 19 and had married of…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians’ Moving Exhibits Part of Second Annual ‘Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom’
July 15, 2019 | ***NEWS RELEASE*** | For Immediate Release STPC Leaders Will Attend and Lead Sessions at Historic Gathering July 16-18 WASHINGTON—Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC), which advocates on…
PAKISTAN – Pakistan court frees pastor charged with blasphemy
Pakistan court frees pastor charged with blasphemyJadoon Masih was allegedly badly mistreated while in custody before being granted bail Pakistani Islamists hold a poster displaying a portrait of Asia Bibi,…
SRI LANKA – Muslim extremists order Christian Tamils to convert or move out of traditional homeland in Sri Lanka
Many Tamil Christians and Hindus in Sri Lanka are being ordered by Muslim extremists to convert to Islam or leave the villages where their families have lived for generations. Hindu…