Defying the Odds in India
Pastor Arya had lovingly served his community in India for more than 13 years. His ministry had reached many villages during that time, but now...
Pastor Arya had lovingly served his community in India for more than 13 years. His ministry had reached many villages during that time, but now...
08/24/2022 India (International Christian Concern) – Last Tuesday, the Indian government denied any persecution of Christians in the country despite dozens of reports proving otherwise....
In 2008, anti-Christian riots swept across the Kandhamal district of India’s Odisha state. After more than a month of violence, 120 Christians were dead.
Church planting in India has never been easy. But it has grown even more difficult since 2014 with Prime Minister Modi's rise to power and the resulting increase in Hindu nationalism.
In January, five Christian families were forced out of their village in central India after a mob of 200 Hindu extremists threatened them.
Pastor Arya had lovingly served his community in India for more than 13 years.
The southern Indian state of Karnataka has become the 11th state to ratify the Freedom of Religion Acts, also known as an anti-conversion law.
“Make sure you remain a lover of the world, for ‘God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son,’” the pastor cautioned the newly ordained, bright-eyed American ministers.
The Kandhamal anti-Christian riots changed everything. Lives lost, homes destroyed, futures gone.
A congregation of 100 Christians celebrating a Maundy Thursday service in Uttar Pradesh’s Fathepur District were threatened by a radical Hindu mob who surrounded the church and subsequently locked the doors.
The United States and India share a special relationship, as the oldest democracy and the largest democracy in the world, respectively.
The normalization of social hostility against religious minorities is a critical factor in India’s decline of religious freedom.
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