India

A suspected criminal recently released on bail in northern India is suspected to have killed a pastor on Wednesday for sharing the "love and forgiveness of Christ" with him.

Last month, tribal animists reportedly forced more than 50 Christians from three villages to flee their homes and take shelter in the jungles of eastern India.

A pastor's Christian father with killed by relatives in northern India for leaving a tribal religion for Christianity. The father was killed by axe and sword blows.

Dr. Sandhya Tiwari was suspended from a government COVID-19 program after telling her patients to pray if they get infected. She is also facing criminal charged under the state's anti-conversion law, but says that she "did not tell anybody to convert" or force anyone to pray. "I told them Jesus heals," she said.

The situation in India is far worse than people realize, and it will be long after the final effect of this surge in COVID-19 infections ends.

While seeking treatment for injuries sustained in an attack by Hindu extremists last month, a Christian pastor in eastern India contracted COVID-19.

At the time of this writing, just over 300,000 people have died in India from the novel coronavirus.

According to sources, police in India who initially took a pastor and his family into custody to protect them from an attack by a 300-member Hindu extremist mob were pressured into jailing them under a baseless charge of forcible conversion.

As the COVID-19 situation begins to overwhelm the healthcare system in India, Christian humanitarian aid organizations have deployed aid to the nation.

According to reports, India has recorded more than 320,000 new cases of COVID-19 in the last week.