A prominent Christian persecution advocacy organization will honor the legacy and sacrifice of American missionary John Chau, who lost his life while taking the Gospel to a remote island in the Indian Ocean in 2018.
At least 30 Christians were detained in Uttar Pradesh alone in May, with 20 of them arrested in the last week. The arrests were justified by claims of forced conversion.
Multiple alarming episodes of harassment, violence and false imprisonment against Christians have been reported in Uttar Pradesh in recent weeks.
The only church in Odisha’s Geltua village was sealed and Christians were prohibited from assembling for worship following an accusation of religious conversion.
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.
