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Category: India

INDIA: Christian teenager murdered by Hindu extremists

Posted on 11Jun202025th June 2020Categories India
INDIA: Christian teenager murdered by Hindu extremists

14-year-old Samaru Madkami was brutally murdered by religious extremists who had been harassing his family for years.

INDIA: Attacks on Christians continue under lockdown

Posted on 12May20204th June 2020Categories India
INDIA: Attacks on Christians continue under lockdown

Violent attacks on Christians have continued in India despite the nation being in Covid-19 lockdown as two examples from Bihar and Odisha state show.

Covid-19 and the persecuted church

Posted on 02Apr202016th April 2020Categories ChinaEritreaIndiaIranPakistan
Covid-19 and the persecuted church

As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads around the globe, some of the countries from which Church in Chains reports regularly have been very badly hit.

INDIA: Multiple attacks on Christians across country

Posted on 02Apr202016th April 2020Categories India
INDIA: Multiple attacks on Christians across country

Violence against Christians in India hit a new level in March with a large number of hate crimes across the country including cases of police brutality.

INDIA: Hindu extremists beat Christian children

Posted on 12Feb20206th March 2020Categories India
INDIA: Hindu extremists beat Christian children

Hindu extremists in Karnataka state beat children attending a house church meeting and accused the adults of carrying out conversions.

INDIA: Report shows increase in attacks on Christians in 2019

Posted on 12Feb20205th March 2020Categories India
INDIA: Report shows increase in attacks on Christians in 2019

A report published by Persecution Relief shows that the number of hate crimes against Christians in India rose again in 2019, to a new annual high of 527 reported incidents.

INDIA: Police in Bihar criticised for bias and inaction

Posted on 01Aug201928th June 2022Categories India
INDIA: Police in Bihar criticised for bias and inaction

Police took no action after Pastor Shelton Viswanathan was beaten by Hindu extremists.

INDIA: Dublin embassy willing to engage in dialogue

Posted on 02Apr201928th June 2022Categories India
INDIA: Dublin embassy willing to engage in dialogue

Mr Sandeep Kumar, the newly-appointed Ambassador of India, has said that the Indian Embassy in Dublin wishes to engage in dialogue with Church in Chains.

IRELAND: TDs and Senators petition Indian Ambassador to protect Indian Christians

Posted on 10Jan201928th June 2022Categories India
IRELAND: TDs and Senators petition Indian Ambassador to protect Indian Christians

Seventeen members of the Oireachtas have signed a petition to the Indian Ambassador requesting the Indian government to act to protect Christians who continue to face ongoing attacks from Hindu extremists.

INDIA: Church building burned to ashes in Uttar Pradesh

Posted on 21Nov201828th June 2022Categories India
INDIA: Church building burned to ashes in Uttar Pradesh

In the early hours of 16 November, extremists set fire to a church building in Ahladpur village and burned it down.

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