By James Varghese, Special Correspondent in India for ASSIST News Service
KARNATAKA, INDIA- Around 20 believers have been asked to leave their village following their acceptance of the Christian faith in Afzalpur, Gulbarga District, Karnataka state, on Sunday, August 9.
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By James Varghese, ASSIST News Service
ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA – Hindu radicals belonging to a group called Sangh Parivar set a church at Mahasamudram village on fire in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh state on August 20.
On Sunday evening, three families in Rajasthan, India, were worshipping Jesus as usual when a group of anti-Christian extremists barged in and beat them without mercy.
JHARKHAND, INDIA – Haran Jin, a Christian man in Jharkhand, India, was badly beaten last week while serving on an outreach team. Haran, along with his pastor, Gospel for Asia-supported missionary Tej Kishen Roy, and several other believers from their church were handing out Gospel tracts in a village when the attack occurred.