India’s General Secretary of VHP Milind Parande attacks Christians and Muslims, ‘destroying’ the ‘culture’ and ‘religion’
Milind Parande, the General Secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), has unleashed a fresh tirade of hate against India’s Christian and Muslim populations. In an interview the Times of India, Parande peddled More...
Indian Pastor Mukam Kiraad Charged with Illegally Practicing Medicine, can get three years in prison
According to Morning Star News, a pastor and two other Christians in India’s Madhya Pradesh state were arrested last month after being falsely accused of illegally practicing medicine. The foundation for the outrageous More...
Christian Pastor Ramesh Pargi attacked, beaten in India’s Gujarat state
Morning Star News reports that a pastor in India’s Gujarat state has suffered severe injuries after he was beaten unconscious by a mob of radical Hindu nationalists. According to the victim, the radicals attacked More...
Pastor Solomon of Uttar Pradesh harassed on social media, seeks police help dealing with trolls
Since September 15, Pastor Solomon of Uttar Pradesh has been subjected to social media harassment by members of right-wing Hindu organizations. The accusations made against him online, primarily of forced conversions, More...
Pastor Sukdev Giri facing death threats after video testimony of conversion to Christianity, salvation, goes viral
According to Morning Star News, a pastor in Nepal has received numerous death threats after a video of him sharing his Christian testimony and his experience was a former Hindu went viral. The wide abuse against More...
Nautan Lal accused of blasphemy against Muhammad, Pakistan riots Sindh cause fear among Christians
Riots broke out in Pakistan’s Sindh province after a Hindu principal was accused of committing blasphemy against Islam. Both the teacher and rioters have been arrested by local police. On Saturday, September 14, More...
Hindu Radicals Demand Death for Organizers of Christian Film Screening in India
(International Christian Concern) –According to Morning Star News, around 100 Christians were attacked by Hindu radicals on August 23 for watching the Christian film “He Will Come Again” in the home of a More...
Radical Hindu Nationalists Forcefully End Christian Gathering in India
(International Christian Concern) –On Sunday, September 1, activists from the Bajrang Dal, a youth wing of the Hindu nationalist Vishwa Hindu Parishad, forcefully ended a Christian prayer gathering in Worli Naka, More...
India to expel 86-year-old nun, Sister Enedina, denying her visa
The Indian government has not renewed a visa for 86-year-old Sister Enedina who has served the poor in India for decades as a part of the Daughters of Charity. The visa was refused on August 11 and Sister Enedina More...
Social Boycott Initiated Against Christian Community in Northeastern India
(International Christian Concern) –Earlier this month, on August 10, Pastor Hemant Meher was attacked and beaten by a mob of Hindu radicals in Dalki village, located in India’s northeastern state of Odisha. More...
Pakistan Continues to Conceal Population Data Regarding Religious Minorities
(International Christian Concern) –According to The Express Tribune, the Pakistani Government is continuing to conceal data regarding the population of the country’s religious minorities. Many minority leaders More...
Small Church Destroyed in Apparent Arson in Southern India
(International Christian Concern) –On Monday, August 12, a small church made of wooden poles and thatch was set on fire and completely destroyed by unknown people in Thakkallepadu village, approximately 80 miles More...
Interfaith Group in Malaysia Protests Mandatory Teaching of Jawi
(International Christian Concern) –After the education ministry’s announcement that it will introduce Arabic script in the Malay language syllabus for primary school, on August 7, an interfaith group challenged More...
Pastor, Shelton Viswanathan Beaten by Hindu Radicals, Officials Refuse to Register Case
(International Christian Concern) –On June 23rd, eight young Hindu radicals attacked a pastor who was delivering Christian pamphlets on his motorbike in his neighborhood in Sheohar, India. They pushed him off More...
Pentecostal community of India accused of bribing people to convert to Christianity
In a continuation of attacks on India’s small Christian community, Vasudev Devannai, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan in Northern India, who is fully involved in Hindu-nationalist party, Bharatiya More...
Indias Unregistered Churches Caught in the Crosshairs
(International Christian Concern) –“For the first time in 45 years, I feel like I don’t have the right to live as a Christian in my own country,” Pastor Sheeja Thomas, a house church leader in Hyderabad, More...
India: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi attacked over denial of lynchings
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, India’s Minister for Minority Affairs and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), recently claimed that the majority of mob lynchings reported in India were “concocted and fake.” More...
Christians Brutally Attacked in Jharkhand by Hindu Radicals
(International Christian Concern) –Last Sunday, on 14 July 2019, Christians were seriously injured in an attack in Belchori Village in the North Indian State of Jharkhand by Hindu radicals on 14th July 2019. More...
Fun Rituals, Traditional Dances and Good Food: A Part of North Indian Weddings
For Hindus, marriages are made in heaven and once it solemnizes the two souls get together for seven lifetimes. To celebrate the coming together of two people, the North Indian weddings are witnessed with close More...
Christian Ministry Announces Christian Persecution in Nepal is on the Rise
(International Christian Concern) –Open Doors, a Christian ministry that monitors global Christian persecution, has claimed that the persecution of Christians in Nepal on the rise. This has led the ministry to More...
