A Christian pastor and his wife from central India were recently sentenced to prison after accusations were made that they had been involved in pressuring others to convert to Christianity. A man h...

Clashes erupted between villagers and church members on 13 February following disputes over a development on church property. The District Superintendent of the Methodist Church reported that tensions...

A Christian couple in Uppaladinni, Karnataka, was recently beaten for their faith and threatened with death if they continued to practise Christianity. The attack on Vijayalakshmi Chavhan and her husb...

VOM Australia has the privilege of supporting front-line workers in several restricted nations. These faithful believers work tirelessly to lead churches in hostile areas, encourage persecuted believe...

About 80% of Indians are Hindus, and more than 10% are Muslims. India is also the birthplace of Buddhism. Hindu nationalist informants live in nearly every village and report on the activities of C...

In a rare instance of protecting Christian converts instead of persecuting them, an Indian court recently ruled to uphold true freedom of religion guaranteed by the country’s constitution. Last y...

It’s been almost 100 days since violence between rival groups erupted in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur. Up to 150 people are believed to have been killed and tens of thousands forced to f...

A pastor, his wife, and young son have been jailed for allegedly luring innocent people to Christianity in violation of an anti-conversion law in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state where Chr...

Chhattisgarh is one of a growing number of Indian states to have passed anti-conversion laws. The anti-conversion laws have established a climate of intoleranc...

One of our front-line workers in India is once again asking for prayer for the people of Manipur. The eastern state of Manipur has been enveloped in ethnoreligious violence since 3 May, when a peac...

In the state elections held in Karnataka on 10 May, the secular Indian National Congress party won a majority of seats over the former ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Moving quickly on election p...

On 24 April, Pastor Kirubendran and his family were detained for allegedly conducting "forcible conversion" activities and "insulting religion". The pastor's wife, Manju, was released on bail in early...

The north-eastern Indian state of Manipur remains in a tense state of unease weeks after a devastating spate of violence led to the deaths of at least 73 individuals, most of them Christians, and the ...

Nine Christian pastors were arrested and jailed on false charges of conversion activities in Azamgarh, in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, last Monday. The pastors and ...

In Andhra Pradesh state, officials are conducting a survey to identify all Christians who have come from Hindu families, married a Hindu or are conducting Christian activities. ...