A pastor in India was attacked by a dozen local residents who were attempting to build a wall meant to block people from attending worship services at his home in L.B. Patnam village, Andhra Pradesh. Reportedly, led by a local Hindu extremist, the group attacked him, breaking his hand.
Hindu extremists are issuing a warning to Christians in southern India after beating Christian children during worship last month.
A pastor was beaten in India after he was accused of converting Muslims to Christianity.
After being arrested for failing to pay duty on the money he brought into India, a Tennessee pastor paid a fine believe he would be allowed to go. Now, three months after the arrest, Indian officials are refusing to give him his passport back.
In certain parts of India, sources say police are harder on Christians than anyone else.
In central India Christians were arrested and forced to spend Christmas in jail after Hindu nationalist tribal villagers disrupted their worship service and accused them of illegally practicing medicine.
Armed tribal animists in Eastern India threated to kill a group of Christians by chopping them to pieces and burning down their homes.
After spending a decade in prison for a murder they did not commit, five Christians have been acquitted in India.
Animists in central India are enlisting Maoist militants to kill Christians who refuse to recant their faith.
Led by Hindu extremists in Udham Singh Nagar District in Uttarakhand state, a mob of 60 to 70 mainly female villagers assaulted 28-year-old pastor Sawan Pol’s father, mother, wife and 10-year-old brother in Bagwala village, near the city of Rudrapur, sources said. The pastor’s wife was holding their 6-month-old son during the assault.
