Following Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, the state government of Gujarat is considering implementing a new anti-conversion law to strictly thwart “love jihad,” reports from the Times of India suggest.
A Christian community’s decade-long dream to have an independent church was shattered after the church that was under construction was destroyed by a mob of radical Hindu nationalists in Telangana.
In a recently published report, the Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) of the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) documented 327 cases of persecution against Christian community in 2020, while most of the population was under COVID-19 lock down.
As part of Hindu nationalists’ ongoing campaign to stop India’s tribal, or indigenous, people from converting to Christianity, a rightwing Hindu leader has demanded that all churches be closed down in a district in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
In Odisha's Chichima village, six Christian families worshiping in a wood-and-hay church were assaulted by about 25 men who were outraged to see these families abandon their tribal culture and choose Christianity.
Members of a Pentecostal church in Telangana fear potential attacks in the future after unknown assailants desecrate their church leaving it partially damaged.
Anti-conversion laws have been passed in at least nine states across India, but Release's partners in the country warn that the Madhya Pradesh legislation is particularly tough, permitting police to arrest suspects without warrant and holding them without bail, with the onus on the suspect to prove their innocence.
In one part of the syllabus, entitled, “What famous people said about the cow,” it is claimed that "Jesus Christ said that killing a cow is like killing a human being."
Police officials in Karnataka prohibit a group of about 50 Christians from meeting for worship services, arguing that they were not Christians from birth, but must have been converted to Christianity through force or fraud.
After over a month-long investigation, the interfaith marriage that took place on 9 November between a Christian bride and a Muslim groom in a parish church in Ernakulam-Angamali Archdiocese in Kerala has been declared invalid.
Twenty-five people were killed and 15 others were injured in a roof collapse on January 3 at a crematorium in the town of Muradnagar in Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh.
Three Indians and a Korean Christian accused of fraudulent conversion attempts were imprisoned under Uttar Pradesh’s new anti-conversion law that came into force on November 28.
