Morning Star News India Correspondent

• Baseless Charge in India Leaves Pastor, Family in Ruins
  Not even a judge’s reprimand of police spared an impoverished pastor in India from being jailed on baseless claims of fraudulent conversion, one of the latest examples of how Hindu extremists...
  Thursday, September 21, 2023
• Christian in India Charged with Human Trafficking, Allurement
  Police in central India on July 26 beat a Christian educator and filed baseless charges against him of human trafficking and fraudulent conversion of eight Christian students he was escorting to a...
  Friday, August 11, 2023
• Christian Family Traumatized by Ethnic Violence in India
  On the evening of May 3, an ethnic Christian in northern India’s Manipur state received a call from a relative advising her to pack up and leave home with her children immediately.
  Monday, June 26, 2023
• Religious Facet Seen in Ethnic Violence in Manipur, India
  A surge of ethnic violence with a growing religious component in northeastern India led to the killing on Friday (June 9) of a woman in her church building and two other Christians, sources said.
  Tuesday, June 13, 2023
• Hindu Extremists Jail Pastors, Close Churches in India
  Having spent a month in jail on baseless charges before his release on bail, Pastor R. Kirubendran was baffled at hostilities from police, media and villagers after serving a community in northern...
  Tuesday, June 6, 2023
• Police Thwart Plan to Burn Church Buildings in India
  Plans to burn several church buildings in central India came to an end on Sunday (Feb. 12) after officers arrested three Hindu extremists, but not before they had set one structure ablaze, police...
  Thursday, February 16, 2023
• Pastor in India Kept in Jail on Baseless Charges, Christians Say
  A pastor in northern India remains in jail after more than three months despite winning bail because Hindu extremists filed new false charges against him, his wife said.
  Monday, February 13, 2023
• Christian Family in India Suffers after Arrests at Birthday Party
  A Christian mother and her family in northern India have suffered assaults and threats since she and others were arrested from her son’s birthday party on false accusations of fraudulent...
  Thursday, November 3, 2022
• Hindu Relatives Suspected of Killing Christian in India
  Christians in eastern India suspect a church member’s Hindu family killed him last month for refusing to renounce his faith, sources said.
  Friday, September 23, 2022
• Police in India Assault, Charge Pastor for Family Devotional
  According to sources, nearly two months after police arrested a pastor in India from his grandmother’s home, tied him to a tree and beat him, threats from officers and others have kept him from...
  Friday, June 17, 2022
• Christians Accuse Policeman in India of Destroying Church Building
  According to sources, after months of appeals to officials in central India, Christians are still awaiting action against a police officer alleged to have burned down a church building and...
  Thursday, May 19, 2022
• Christians Left without Homes after Easter Attack in India
  Tribal villagers in eastern India assaulted three Christian families and destroyed their homes on Easter Sunday (April 17), sources said.
  Friday, May 13, 2022
• 18 Christians in India Jailed, Fight False Charge of Five Years ago
  Christians falsely charged with crimes related to an act of vandalism in central India five years ago spent five days in jail and are fighting the case anew after it mysteriously resurfaced,...
  Thursday, May 5, 2022
• Assaulted Pastor in India Faces Baseless Charges, Death Threats
  Still recovering from injuries at the hands of a Hindu extremist-led mob that beat him unconscious in January, a pastor in central India faces death threats, landlords who refuse to rent to him and...
  Tuesday, April 5, 2022
• Christian Pastor Slashed, Shot to Death in Central India
  Six masked men in central India this month killed one of 22 Christians a Maoist group had warned to “leave the pastorship,” sources said.
  Tuesday, March 29, 2022
• Pastor Tied to Post, Beaten in Delhi, India
  Hindu extremists in the National Capital Territory of Delhi last month tied a pastor to a post at a busy intersection and beat him before hundreds of people, but police have yet to make arrests,...
  Wednesday, March 9, 2022
• Hindu Extremists Try to Kill Pastor, Wife in Northern India, He Says
  Pastor Rakesh Babu was about to go to bed one night earlier this year in northern India when eight Hindu extremists broke into his house, beat and choked him and slit his wife’s throat, he said.
  Thursday, March 3, 2022
• Hardline Hindu Neighbors Attack Pastors in Northern India
  A Hindu extremist mob on Jan. 28 attacked two pastors in northern India, setting the Bible of one on fire as he blacked out from the beating, he said.
  Monday, February 7, 2022