By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter - September 9, 2016 A protester holds a placard during a rally by hundreds of Christians against recent attacks on churches nationwide, in Mumbai, February…
June 12, 2016 – CBN News
Hindu extremists assaulted and tortured 29 Indian Christians for refusing to give up their faith and convert to Hinduism.
Radical Hindus attempted to force Christians to renounce their faith, reports Open Doors. When the believers refused, the Hindu extremist began to beat the men, women and children.
The group was forced to flee their community and received threats that if they came back they would be killed.
“This is just one of an increasing number of stories of persecution coming out of India,” Open Doors said in a statement. Hindu extremists have been attacking Christians more frequently and more violently. This is happening across India and has increased by 34 percent since 2013.
March 08, 2016 – EEW Magazine – Johnnie Moore
Courtesy of Gospel For Asia
In many regions around the world, women face consistent hardships from gender-based abortions to child marriage, forced prostitution, and modern day slavery.
Gospel for Asia joins with the international humanitarian community in commemorating today’s International Women’s Day by lending a helping hand.
GFA-supported workers will be visiting nursing homes, jails and medical facilities to distribute food and other necessities to hundreds of women today. Partners will be offering special assistance to women in the areas where it serves in South Asia, celebrating the success of women and underscoring the wide gaps in gender equality that persist in our world.
Vivian Chou, Mark Ellis : Mar 1, 2016 : God Reports
“I was shocked. I was very afraid. I kept saying, ‘Who is this? What’s happening to me? What’s inside of me running very fast?'” –Kosh Dahal
Nepal)—If 330 million gods and goddesses couldn’t respond to his prayers, Kosh Dahal doubted whether one God like Jesus could do very much. Plus, the Nepalese was a Hindu priest from the highest caste in Nepal, and he didn’t want to submit to a belief system he perceived as having a lower status.
“There was no caste higher than my caste,” he said in a YouTube video. “I didn’t want to mix with the people of the low castes.”
So Dahal repeatedly dismissed a Christian evangelist who showed up day after day to share the Gospel at his veterinary clinic in Kathmandu.
We’re pleased to announce that special guest speaker Evangelist Daniel Krestianto is from Indonesia will be ministering at CTFM in Hallam at the 10am & 6:30pm worship services this Sunday…
Christian Aid Mission Staff : Nov 13, 2015 : Gospel Herald
“When there was persecution, professing the name of Christ was very costly, but since the government became secular there’s freedom, and because of that there’s a lot of false teaching coming in, so it’s imperative that they know what true teaching is.”
(Nepal)—Nepal has quietly enshrined a long-time ban on proselytizing in its new constitution. For an indigenous ministry in Nepal that has long found ways to quietly proclaim Christ as Lord, that means business as usual.
As did the interim constitution of the prior seven years, the new constitution signed by Nepal’s president on Sept. 20 outlaws “any act to convert another person from one religion to another or any act or behavior to undermine or jeopardize the religion of another,” with violations punishable by prison and/or fines.
By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter – June 30, 2015|
A protester holds a placard during a rally by hundreds of Christians against recent attacks on churches nationwide, in Mumbai, February 9, 2015. Five churches in the Indian capital New Delhi have reported incidents of arson, vandalism and burglary. The latest was reported last week when an individual stole ceremonial items.
Following a mid-June attack on a Christian church in the Indian town of Attingal in Kerala state, Hindu radicals have threatened to wipe out a Christian congregation and burn the church’s pastor if they continue to worship and pray in there.
According to International Christian Concern, a U.S.-based Christian persecution monitoring organization, a mob of 200 angry Hindus surrounded the Reaching the World with Love Ministries Church in Attingal on June 14, while about 400 congregants were in the middle of their Sunday worship service.
As the large mob shouted loud Hindu chants, including “Bharat Mathaki” [Hail Mother India], the congregation’s pastor, known by the name Shiju, told ICC that 30 Hindus broke into the worship hall, charged at him while he was preaching and began beating him down and caused him internal injuries.
Barnabas Fund ^ | 05/12/2015|
Over 400 Christian leaders and social activists gathered together in Hyderabad, in India’s Telangana state, on 2 May, to hold a peaceful protest against a recent spate of attacks against Christians. The protest came in the wake of yet another brutal mob attack in the state, when at least 100 Hindu radicals stormed a Christian meeting shouting anti-Christians slogans and beating the believers with wooden clubs, iron rods, and knives.
Christians in India meet to pray together
First breaking the lights and sound system, the assailants then proceeded to attack the Christians who had gathered together in Pebber town, in Telangana state, at around 9.30 pm on 8 April. According to International Christian Concern, the Christians ran outside and into the bushes to hide from the attackers, but at least 15 were wounded, some of them sustaining serious injuries.
The believers had been concluding an event in which they had organised three days of open-air revival meetings from 6 to 8 April. Over 300 Christians from nearby villages had come especially for the event.
By Dean Nelson, New Delhi – 24 Feb 2015
One of India’s most senior Hindu nationalist leaders was accused of stoking religious tensions after he denounced Mother Teresa and claimed her charitable works for the poor were aimed at converting them to Christianity.
Mohan Bhagwat, leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Hindu nationalist group which nurtured India’s prime minister Narendra Modi as a young man, said Mother Teresa’s service for the poor “would have been good” but was done with an ulterior motive.
“It used to have one objective, to convert the person who was being served into a Christian … if this is done in the name of service, then that service gets devalued”, he said.
His comments were made amid growing concern over attacks on churches in India and a continuing campaign by Hindu nationalists to pressurise those who have converted to Christianity, Buddhism and Islam to “come home” to their previous Hindu faith. Many of those who have converted are poor “untouchables” who are persecuted in Hinduism’s caste system.
Narendra Modi tried to calm the tensions earlier this month when he condemned religious violence and emphasised India’s traditional tolerance.
Blessings.buzz ^ | 1/25/2015 | Elly Mae This story is miraculous in so many different ways. A man named Ravi said that God showed him a man that he was…