Two Christian families in India’s Chhattisgarh state were denied the right to bury deceased relatives in their native villages. In both incidents, locals blocked access to burial plots and insisted on Hindu rites as a condition for entry, forcing the families to travel elsewhere to perform final rites.
India’s Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Rajasthan government regarding a petition challenging the state’s “anti-conversion” law, which allows officials to demolish homes and seize property based on mere allegations of forcible conversion.
Anglicans recently met in the Diocese of Durgapur in north India for a conference aimed at tackling human trafficking and slavery.
When a Hindu extremist mob assaulted Christian men, women and children during a church service in India in late September, police jailed the pastor and charged him and four other Christians.
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the arrival of Amy Carmichael in India, the death of Martin Luther King Sr., and the election of Charles Anderson as presiding bishop.
Three Christians, including a pastor, were arrested in northern India under a controversial anti-conversion law for allegedly trying to convert Hindus to Christianity through "inducements."
More than six months after police in southern India dismissed the death of a pastor as a road accident, Christians in the region say there is strong evidence that the continually threatened evangelist was murdered.
The first Christian charged under an “anti-conversion” law has now become the first to be acquitted under the Uttarakhand state statute following a four-year legal battle.
A 20-year-old Christian woman was raped and her mother nearly killed by their Hindu relatives in a religiously motivated attack and a dispute over property rights.
Police in India arrested a pastor and his wife on fabricated charges and beat the woman while in custody.
