Category: India

Uttar Pradesh police arrested nine Christians from two prayer gatherings on 23 February and charged them with forced conversion

Pastor Jose and Sheeja Papachan had been sentenced to five years imprisonment each under Uttar Pradesh’s anti-conversion law

More than four hundred Christian leaders have sent an appeal letter to Prime Minister Modi demanding urgent action to address increasing violence

100 Christians affected by order from village leaders

Two church members also given six-year sentences

Bindu Sodhi’s relatives beat her to death because they were angry that she had converted to Christianity

The widow of a Christian killed in a mob attack in Chhattisgarh state is living in fear five weeks after she fled their home and village

A pastor and his wife have been convicted of “forcible conversion” and sentenced to two years each in prison