20-y-o jailed for reportedly seeking to convert his wife to Christianity
A 20-year-old Christian in Odisha remains imprisoned after he was wrongly convicted of violating the state's anti-conversion law.
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Christians urge election commission to consider Holy Week before finalising state election dates
The secretary of the Laity Council of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) submitted a petition to the chief election commissioner urging him not to conduct state assembly elections and its proceedings in different states during the Holy Week observed by Christians.
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Two believers wrongly accused of blasphemy in Karnataka
Two Christians, one convicted and imprisoned and another seeking anticipatory bail, after being wrongly accused by radical nationalists of blaspheming Hinduism in Karnataka.
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Church construction stopped after religious fanatics raid building site
About three Christians in Jharkhand were seriously injured and 12 others were wrongly charged of various crimes after a mob of religious nationalists attacked and accused them of converting people to Christianity and building an illegal church in Meral village.
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Christian congregation attacked; forced to evict church
Around eight radical Hindus invaded a Sunday worship meeting, beat the pastor and worshippers of the church, and demanded that the Christian congregation repeat the chant "Jai Shri Ram" in Harohalli, Karnataka.
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19 Christians charged under MP’s anti-conversion law; believers reflect on new wave of persecution
After the state government introduced a new anti-conversion law that forbids religious conversions, thousands of Christians in Madhya Pradesh are seeing a new wave of persecution within their faith community.
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Bible publicly burned as a sign of eradication of Christianity from a village in Telangana
A mob of 10 extremists disrupted a prayer meeting, assaulted the Christians gathered for prayer and burned the Bible publicly as a sign of eradication of Christianity from Telangana’s Sarakonda village on January 31.
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7 Christian families remain displaced in Odisha
Seven Christian families in Odisha’s Padmpur village were summoned, assaulted and thrown out of their village for refusing to recant their faith in Christ.
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Three families in Jharkhand excommunicated from village for converting to Christianity
Three Korwa tribal families from Khala village of Dhurki in Garhwa district were caned, fined and excommunicated from the community by the village court that accused the families of illegally converting to Christianity, UCA News reported.
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Christians charged under MP’s anti-conversion law denied bail
Six Christians, including three pastors, attacked, arrested and imprisoned under Madhya Pradesh’s newly enacted anti-conversion law are refused bail.
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Priest assaulted in Telangana
A pastor in Telangana was assaulted by two BJP workers who accused him of conducting religious conversions, UCA News reported.
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Tribal Christians practice faith amid threats and persecution
Right-wing Hindu groups in the tribal-dominated Amba village in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, have accelerated anti-Christian campaigns urging Christians to return to Hinduism to escape hostility.
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