Tag: anti-Christian violence

Several on social media uploaded videos and images showing men shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram,’ ‘Har Har Mahadev’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’, in front of the stall of the Gideons International, an evangelical Christian association. The organisation distributes free copies of the Bible.

In the recent past, there was an escalation of attacks against Christians in several parts of the country, the protesters said.

A senior police officer sustained head injuries and a few others were injured while they were trying to disperse a mob which vandalized a church in Narayanpur district in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh in central India.

INDIA is among 3 countries where persecution of Christians is said to increase in 2023, according to a report by Release International, a UK-based aid and advocacy organization.

“The country saw 355 incidents of violence, including 200 major incidents, during the last year,” Joseph Dias, convener of Mumbai-based Catholic Secular Forum, told World Watch Monitor.

ANDHRA Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka top the list of Indian states in which Christians faced incidents of targeted communal violence in the year 2013,...

DEFEND Christians had asked the members of their online community to vote for their choice of the top 10 anti-Christian acts of 2011 in the US. The compilation is based on the members’ votes.

THE murder of Christian activist Rabindra Parichha in Kandhamal district of Orissa in India has been interpreted as "a strategic move by extremists to create a climate of fear among Christians" in the run-up to Christmas.

A young Christian couple have been killed and a Christian man kidnapped in Iraq, heightening fears about the increasing threat to the Christian community now US troops have left the country.

GLADYS Staines, wife of Australian missionary Graham Staines, who was burned to death along with their two sons in Orissa over a decade ago, has said she holds no bitterness towards the killers.