A Christian school was torched as thousands of Islamic fundamentalists took to the streets in Kashmir following a report on an Iranian TV Channel of a Koran being desecrated in New York over the weekend. At least 13 people were killed and scores injured in clashes.
A 16-year old Christian girl was rescued on August 9, 2010, after being held captive for two years, Worthy News has learned.
After an attack on an Indian believers home in Karnataka, India, 12 believers, including the pastor and an evangelist were arrested by police Worthy news has learned.
A pastor and his church in India were attacked by a mob Sunday, Worthy News has learned.
Two Christian pastors and some of their congregation were arrested last week for preaching the gospel in India, Worthy News has learned.
Church leaders in India on Wednesday, June 30, welcomed a seven year jail sentence for a leader of an influential Hindu party who was seen as the mastermind behind anti-Christian violence in India’s eastern state of Orissa that killed scores of people in 2008.
Police in India’s eastern state of Orissa say they have detained five suspected Hindu militants for their alleged involvement in attacking a devoted young Christian boy and threatening to kill him and his family.
An evangelist and co-workers were recovering Friday, May 28, after Hindu militants attacked them in India’s southern state of Karnataka, Christians said.
Indian Christians have held a prayer meeting in remembrance of a murdered pastor and other attacks against the Christian minority in India’s Madhya Pradesh state.
A police investigation continued Friday, May 7, into the killing of an Indian evangelist who investigators said was hacked to death in eastern India after showing a film on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Four Christians, including three evangelists and a police officer, have been jailed in India’s central state of Chhatisgarh for “converting” Hindus to Christianity, after they were injured in an attack by Hindu militants, Christian officials confirmed Saturday, April 17.
A dozen church leaders remained behind bars Monday, April 12, a week after security forces detained them in India’s southern state of Karnataka on charges of “forceful conversion” of Hindus, a major evangelical group said.
An evangelical church in central India celebrated Easter this weekend after police harassment and threats from suspected Hindu militants who accused local believers of forcefully converting Hindus to Christianity, an evangelical umbrella organization said.
Evangelical Christians in central and southern India were worshiping Sunday, March 28, amid threats from suspected Hindu militants who reportedly attacked a Christian youth center, churches and pastors.
Police were investigating Saturday, March 27, attacks by suspected Hindu activistson a Roman Catholic school and, separately, a pastor and his companion near India’s capital New Delhi which injured at least three people, Christian rights activists said.
A Christian preacher of one of India’s oldest mission organizations has been held in a prison in India’s volatile Orissa state since December over allegations that he has links with a militant group, evangelical leaders said Friday, March 26.
An official of one of India’s largest evangelical umbrella groups says his organization recorded over 1,000 anti-Christians attacks in 500 days in the Indian state of Karnataka and that the number is growing “by the day.”
Police in India’s southern state Karnataka detained a pastor for “forcing” Hindus “to convert” to Christianity, while Hindu extremists exhumed a Christian’s dead body saying it “contaminated” a cemetery’s soil, evangelical leaders confirmed Friday, March 19.
Several bishops were detained Friday, March 5, in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu where police halted a protest march against the alleged discrimination of Dalit Christians here and elsewhere in this mainly Hindu nation, Christian officials said.
Police in India’s Punjab state refuse to investigate the involvement of Hindu militants in the attempted murders of Christians, according to a report obtained by Worthy News and its news partner BosNewsLife Tuesday, March 2.