Christians in Chhattisgarh are accusing authorities of not taking action against a police officer who burned down their house church building and threatened to arrest them in a fabricated case and kill them if they continued to hold worship services.
A Christian leader in Karnataka has expressed his displeasure after the state governor signed and approved the ordinance that puts the anti-conversion law into force immediately.
Authorities in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district called numerous pastors to the police station last Wednesday, ordering them to suspend all religious activity in the district, including house Church gatherings, unless they had prior permission from the District Magistrate.
A Kerala court sentenced a 35-year-old Catholic priest to 18 years in prison for sexually abusing four minor boys at a seminary.
In a study reported by the United Christian Forum (UCF), an ecumenical group located in New Delhi that tracks violence against Christians, at least 127 incidences of violence against Christians were documented in the first 103 days of 2022 in India.
Police in Uttar Pradesh state arrested dozens of Christians celebrating Maundy Thursday in their Evangelical church.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal groups in Karnataka have demanded that all Christian prison chaplains in the state be suspended immediately after a Hindu chaplain saw a prisoner with a Bible in Gadag jail.
A pastor in Madhya Pradesh has been falsely charged with forcible conversion and received death threats even as his attackers are roaming free.
Five families in Chhattisgarh were harassed and beaten by a gang of extremists who forced them to worship idols. Some of the family were later evicted from their village for attending local church services.
Five masked men broke into the house of a 50-year-old pastor, dragged him out and stabbed him to death in Chhattisgarh. The pastor is survived by his wife, two sons and grandchildren.
Unknown vandals maliciously destroyed the Christ Crucified sculpture in front of Pavan Hans, in the western suburbs of Mumbai.
Two Christian families were socially boycotted by Hindu residents of a village in Chhattisgarh for refusing to recant their faith in Jesus, prohibiting the families from getting drinking water from the community's single public water source, from purchasing goods from the local store, and from working.
