INDIA: Nine pastors jailed on false charges of conversion activities
Nine pastors have been arrested and jailed on false charges of conversion activities in Uttar Pradesh state
Nine pastors have been arrested and jailed on false charges of conversion activities in Uttar Pradesh state
Karthridasan Madhavan was burnt to death in the state of West Bengal
Police in Uttar Pradesh state arrested and brutally beat a pastor who was leading family devotions at his grandmother’s home
On the day Karnataka state’s anti-conversion law was signed into effect, a pastor and his wife were accused of forcible conversion and arrested
Karnataka state’s governor has signed anti-conversion legislation into place without waiting for it to be passed in the upper house
Pastor Kailash Dudwe from Madhya Pradesh state, beaten unconscious by a mob in January, is facing death threats, eviction and false charges of forcible conversion
Pastor Yalam Sankar Timothy was murdered outside his home in a Chhattisgarh village on 17 March
A new report by the Religious Liberty Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of India documents 505 incidents of persecution of Christians in 2021
A new report documenting 505 cases of persecution in 2021 describes anti-conversion laws as “justification for the persecution of minorities”
They were threatened with dire consequences by Hindu hardliners if they refused