Posts tagged Indian Christians
Hindu extremists are banning Christian churches across India
Hindu extremists are banning Christian churches across India

Hindu nationalist extremist groups have been using building code regulations to shut down house churches across India. Pastors and their lawyers say they’re being unfairly targeted.

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News, Asia, Conflict, Politics, Primary Feature, Religion News, Religion, Religious EqualitySurinder Kaur Lal and M. ClarkIndian Christians, Hindu extremist, Surinder Kaur Lal, Hindu Munnani, Bajrang dal, BJP, Narendra Modi, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, religious freedom, religious discrimination, Christian persecution, violence, Alliance Defending Freedom, United Christian Forum, Primary Feature, Secondary Feature, Meagan Clark, Christianity, Hinduism, Hindu extremists
Film marks the 20th anniversary of missionary Graham Staines’ killing in India
Film marks the 20th anniversary of missionary Graham Staines’ killing in India

(COMMENTARY) An American film releasing Feb. 1 marks 20 years after the killing of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. An anti-Christian Hindu fanatic murdered the trio by burning them alive while they were asleep in their station wagon in the early hours of Jan. 23, 1999.

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Asia, Religion, Film & TV, OpinionStephen DavidGraham Staines, missionaries, missionary death, Indian Christians, Staines killing, martyr, odisha, orissa, The Least of These, The Least of These film, Victor Abraham, Gladys Staines, Stephen David, Dara Singh, Hindu extremist, attacks on Christians, primary feature, Primary Feature, News, Secondary Feature, anti-christian, Christianity, Hindu
Indian fishermen granted bail after ferrying American missionary to restricted island
Indian fishermen granted bail after ferrying American missionary to restricted island

Police are also investigating two more Americans who may have helped John Allen Chau illegally visit the remote Sentinelese tribe.

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Asia, Religion News, Religion, North America, NewsSurinder Kaur LalJohn Allen Chau, American missionary, All Nations, Andaman, India, Indian Christians, missionary death, Sentinelese tribe, North Sentinel Island, India missionaries, Surinder Kaur Lal, Primary Feature, religion news, Christianity, missionary