The Election Commission of India (ECI) on March 1 rejected the plea of Christians to postpone the state elections in West Bengal and Assam that are scheduled to take place during the Holy Week.
A pastor was brutally beaten by tribal animists angered by his refusal to contribute money toward the ritual worship of tribal deities — yet police refused to punish the assailants.
A church in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district was vandalised, and a local pastor claims the incident was intended to inflame communal tensions.
"I hope and pray for more understanding from the international community, that they will be aware of the persecution and they will use their voice to ask the Indian government to take steps to protect the religious minorities, Christians included.”
A 20-year-old Christian in Odisha remains imprisoned after he was wrongly convicted of violating the state's anti-conversion law.
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.
Two Christians, one convicted and imprisoned and another seeking anticipatory bail, after being wrongly accused by radical nationalists of blaspheming Hinduism in Karnataka.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
