After being attacked by a tribal mob for their Christian faith and being threatened with jail by police over the attack, a Christian family in eastern India has been confined to their home for months.
After being attacked by a tribal mob for their Christian faith and being threatened with jail by police over the attack, a Christian family in eastern India has been confined to their home for months.
All but 10 Christians fled a central India village after followers of tribal deities threatened to kill 10 Christian families if they refused to participate in a “re-conversion” ceremony back to their ancestral religion.
The life and work of Christian children's rights activist Pandita Ramabai is an example that we must take seriously today. To live in a pagan society is to encounter victims of bad ideas. Often, especially in our culture, these victims are children.
According to sources, this month in central India, an armed mob disrupted a home worship service and beat and threatened Christians for leaving their ancestral tribal religion.
A Christian mother of three young children in eastern India has been beaten and driven from her home because of her faith.
A Christian mother of four was expelled from her native Palamadugu village, in Sukma District, by tribal animists because of her Christian faith.
Two pastors and a friend falsely accused of fraudulent conversion in central India were released on bail earlier this month after spending a month in jail, sources said.
On Feb. 7, armed Hindu extremists in India reportedly beat church members during a worship service and then pressured police to arrest more than 20 Christians on suspicion of forcible conversion.
Local officials and other tribal animists in a village in eastern India locked council doors, tied up pastor Lakshman Oraon and beat him for more than an hour, but he kept praising God, he said.
A family in Indian was banished from their village this year after they refused to recant their Christian faith.
