India

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with additional reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Hindu violence and threats against minority Christians spread in...

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BHUBANESWAR, ORISSA (BosNewsLife)-- The Catholic archbishop in India's troubled Orissa state on Friday, November 27, urged churches around the world to pray this Christmas for victims of anti-Christian violence in 2007 and last year in which over 100 people were killed.

By Joe DeCaro, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife) -- A major mission group in India said one of its missionaries was out of jail Saturday, January 31, but cautioned he still awaits trial for allegedly forcing people to convert to Christianity in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife NEW DELHI (BosNewsLife)-– Christian missionaries and church leaders already suffering persecution in several areas are among those...

By BosNewsLife Asia Center NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Indian police have released on bail Hindu militants who allegedly attacked a Christian prayer meeting in Western India, seriously injuring at least 11 Christians, a rights group said Friday, January 22.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Pastors and other Christians in a volatile area of India's western state Maharashtra fear for their lives after Hindu militants reportedly attacked worship services, encouraged by police and local authorities.

By Santosh Digal, BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent reporting from India BHUBANESWAR, ORISSA (BosNewsLife)-- Authorities backed by Hindu militants have halted the reconstruction of a Baptist church that was destroyed in deadly anti-Christian violence in India's volatile state of Orissa, local Christians said Tuesday, August 23.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- A government official of India's remote Tripura state was trying to avoid prison Monday, June 10, after he allegedly beheaded his Christian son-in-law. Local police initially told local media that the 55-year-old Gobinda Jamatia killed Tapas Bin, 35, with the help of a tribal sorcerer for refusing to abandon Christianity and embrace Hinduism.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Persecution of minority Christians in India is escalating ahead of Christmas with attacks reported in several areas including in southern regions and the capital New Delhi. In one of the latest known incidents Saturday, December 13, evangelical Christians were attacked and beaten by Hindu militants for singing Christmas carols in India's southern city of Hyderabad, seriously injuring a pastor and four others, rights activists told BosNewsLife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Nearly fourteen years after Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons were burned to death by a mob in eastern India, police have detained two more suspects, BosNewsLife learned Monday, May 20.