Christian Personal Checks

Indian believer jailed for ‘crime’ of praying for a friend in hospital and getting beaten up

By James Varghese, Special Correspondent in India for ASSIST News Service

KARNATAKA, INDIA (ANS) — In another bizarre police interpretation of Indian law, a Christian believer who went to pray for his sick friend at a local hospital, and was then beaten up by a Hindu radical, has been charged for this terrible “crime”.

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Pastor and wife attacked by Hindu radicals in Karnataka state, India

By James Varghese, Special Correspondent in India for ASSIST News Service

KARNATAKA, INDIA (ANS) — A pastor and his wife were brutally attacked and beaten up by a group of Hindu radicals at Mysore in Karnataka state, India, on Monday, December 14.

According to the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), the attack took place when a >>>Continue reading >>>

Pakistani Muslims Allegedly Poison Christian Employees to Death

GUJRANWALA, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Muslim employers of three Christian sanitation workers at a banquet/wedding hall allegedly poisoned the three workers yesterday, killing two of them. At press time the third was struggling for life in intensive care.

According to a story by Compass Direct News, the father of the three workers, Yousaf Masih, said the owner >>>Continue reading >>>

China Sentences House Church Pastors to Prison

Open Doors reports that five pastors arrested without a warrant in China’s Shanxi Province as they were on their way to file a complaint over the demolition of their church building, have been sentenced to prison terms of three to seven years.