Nearly a month after being set on fire by suspected Hindu extremists, a Christian boy in Bihar is in critical condition with 65 percent of his body scorched and 15 percent deep burns.
The “small Christian community is only exercising its rights guaranteed by the Indian Constitution, without violating any law. The charges of forced conversions are fabricated only to create communal frenzy.”
A crowd of activists assaulted a pastor and two other Christians inside a police station in Bhatagaon, Raipur. The believers were accused of indulging in conversion activities.
A member of an independent church in Madhya Pradesh was arrested while he was leading the Sunday service in his village.
A 35-year-old Christian man in southern India has been in hiding for over a month since his neighbors threatened to kill him if he didn’t vacate his house and beat him with iron rods until he fell unconscious.
“It was only the Lord who saved my wife from the brutal attack; she would have been dead in their hands that day. But our Lord is merciful. We give Him praise as we endure this phase of persecution. We do not know when we would be able to return to our home on the church premises. Please pray for us; there is a threat to our lives.”
A 16-year-old Christian boy was attacked with acid last week soon after he left his house in a village to go to the market early in the morning.
Two pastors and one of their wives were reportedly beaten up and arrested on charges of “forced” conversion while they were consoling and praying for a Hindu man who had lost his wife, son and daughter-in-law to COVID-19.
Weeks after all police stations in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar District were ordered to keep surveillance on Christians and report on any “conversion” activities, an anti-Christian rally was held in the region.
A Sikh family in Punjab reportedly choked a 24-year-old Christian woman unconscious for believing in Jesus and attacked the girl's sister and mother. The girl couldn’t speak for nearly a month and remains bedridden.
Navin used to attack Christians. Then he became a pastor and the extremists came for him and his family. Some people in their village started threatening the couple, telling them to stop gathering with their church and stop their ministry. They said that Christianity was a foreign religion and that they were 'anti-Indian.'
A pastor in Madhya Pradesh was attacked and beaten by a group of extremists who stormed into a residence where the priest and three other Christians had met for prayer.
