Christians have expressed concern after India’s central Chhattisgarh state adopted what they describe as the country’s toughest legislation against “coerced or forced religious conversions,” amid concerns about a broader crackdown on minority groups in the Hindu-majority nation.
Christian advocates have urged legislators in Pakistan’s Punjab province to approve child marriage legislation in a country where millions of girls are married as children.
Christians in an area of Java, Indonesia’s most populous island, are weighing their options after authorities evicted worshipers following protests by residents against their church presence, Christian sources told Worthy News Thursday.
Christian workers in India fear proposed legislation will accelerate a government crackdown on foreign-funded mission groups, especially those supporting Dalits, viewed as “outcasts” in the country’s ancient Hindu social hierarchy.
A new anti-conversion law in India’s Chhattisgarh state is drawing sharp criticism from Christian leaders and human rights advocates, who warn it could intensify persecution against religious minorities.
A Christian family’s home was reportedly set on fire following a local dispute in eastern Pakistan, highlighting ongoing concerns about the safety of minority communities in the Muslim-majority nation.
Two church leaders are recovering after they were reportedly nearly killed by Hindus while evangelizing in southwest India’s Karnataka state, underscoring growing hostility toward Christians in the world’s largest Hindu nation.
A Christian teenager was shot and killed in Pakistan’s volatile Punjab Province on Wednesday shortly after another person died when a truck rammed into a crowd of roughly 200 Christians, sources told Worthy News.
Christians in Pakistan demand justice after police allegedly tortured and killed a Catholic father of four while elsewhere a 16-year-old Christian girl was abducted, “forcibly converted to Islam and possibly married to a Muslim prayer leader,” Christians said.
A group of radical Hindu nationalists violently attacked a small Christian congregation in Maharashtra, India, on February 10, leaving a pastor seriously injured and forcing believers to flee their village.
Christians in Pakistan expressed concern about their safety Friday after a believer reportedly died in police custody while the nation’s recently created Federal Constitutional Court approved the marriage between a Muslim man and an underaged Christian girl.
A Christian sanitary worker in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad faces a possible death sentence after spending more than three years behind bars over alleged blasphemy against Islam.
A Pakistani court has acquitted an elderly Christian who was falsely accused of blasphemy against Islam, his defense team confirmed.
Pakistani police have launched a murder investigation after a young Christian man was brutally killed in the eastern city of Lahore, shocking members of the country’s small Christian community, investigators told Worthy News.
Pakistani police have launched a criminal investigation after a young Christian man was brutally killed in the eastern city of Lahore, an attack that has shocked members of the country’s small Christian community, investigators told Worthy News on Saturday.
Nearly 25,000 Christians, many of them impoverished sanitation workers and day laborers, face possible eviction from their homes in Pakistan’s capital after authorities ordered them to vacate two settlements within days, Christians familiar with the situation confirmed Thursday.
A pastor was recovering Wednesday after being beaten unconscious when a mob of Hindu nationalists attacked a house church gathering in central India, assaulting worshippers that included women and children, Christians familiar with the case said.
Christians in India voiced concern after lawmakers in the northern state of Bihar suggested introducing an anti-conversion law similar to legislation adopted in several other states.
A Christian rights leader in Pakistan has welcomed a recommendation by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to keep Pakistan designated as a “Country of Particular Concern” amid reports of widespread violence against Christians and other minorities.
Authorities in Pakistan launched an investigation after a 10-year-old Christian girl was allegedly targeted in an attempted rape by a Muslim man in Punjab province amid a series of violent incidents against Christians in the region, investigators said Sunday.