Nine pastors and a newlywed couple arrested in UP
In Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, on Monday, police detained nine pastors and a newlywed Christian couple at a wedding celebration on spurious claims of engaging in religious conversion activities.
Church & Ministry
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Religious minorities concerned by Supreme Court's call
Human rights and religious liberty campaigners are sounding the alarm after the Supreme Court of India called on the government to act against supposed "fraudulent religious conversion."
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Nine Christians hospitalised following a church attack in Chhattisgarh
Nine Christians from Chhattisgarh's Koshalnar village were hospitalised after a mob stormed into a recently constructed church hall during Sunday service and viciously beat the congregation.
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Catholic leaders say reconversion claim in MP is ‘false and misleading’
Around 184 Christians are said to have converted to Hinduism in Madhya Pradesh, according to a Hindu nationalist group, but Catholic church leaders have called this assertion "false and misleading."
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Christian leaders in UP seek justice for persecuted pastors
A group of pastors in Uttar Pradesh have made a plea for the release of about 30 other pastors who are detained in various jails throughout the region.
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Christians in UP seek protection from those misusing state’s anti-conversion law
Christians in Uttar Pradesh have pleaded with the police chief and the government in Varanasi to defend them from pro-Hindu groups that have been misusing the state's anti-conversion law to harass and persecute minorities.
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Christian prayer gathering attacked in Chhattisgarh
Nearly two weeks after a mob of Hindu nationalists accompanied by an off-duty police officer physically assaulted 15 Christians gathered in a private home for prayer in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh, local police still refuse to register the victims’ complaints, saying they had orders not to file any case related to Christian persecution.
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Christians upset over Hindu priest’s remark on Jesus Christ
Christians in Odisha are furious over a statement made by Puri seer Swami Nischalananda Saraswati that Jesus Christ was a Hindu who resided in India for 10 years, three of which were spent in Puri where he interacted with the then-Shankaracharya and received spiritual guidance.
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Catholic priest suspected of sexually assaulting teen boy surrenders himself
A Pune-based Catholic priest suspected of sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy at his parent's house in December has turned himself to the police, ending his almost one-month-long attempts to escape arrest.
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Vigil against Vatican nominee in Kerala
In order to prevent the Vatican's designated administrator from entering the Archbishop's House, lay people in an archdiocese of the Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church began a 24-hour vigil on October 16.
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Church seeking to determine reason of prayer shed destruction in Tripura
A gang of Jamatia tribal members destroyed a Catholic prayer shed in Komali village, Tripura, when about 15 Christian families had gathered there for the Sunday prayer service on October 2.
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Christian community feels ‘betrayed’ after Karnataka adapted anti-conversion bill
The adoption of the new anti-conversion law has left the whole Christian community in Karnataka deeply troubled and tremendously hurt, according to a statement from the Archdiocese of Bangalore.
