India is not a Christian hating country. So many people have very, very little knowledge of India. If you want to see some Christian hating countries, focus on ones like Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and other Muslim countries where they behead and torture Christains right and left. Or China, where they are imprisoned.
India has had Christians since one of the Apostles went there almost 2000 years ago. There were Christians in India before there were Christians in Europe.
"India is not a Christian hating country."
This does not mean, of course, that there are not very large and strong religious elements within China who are willing to murder Christians and others "in defense of their religion." Just as in this reported incident, police intervention was required. It was on time in this case. It has not been in time in other documented cases in recent years.
Sorry, I said "China" in another response, rather than India. That's because that's where my mind and heart are at this moment...have been speaking in several venues on the underground Christian house church movement.
Evangelist in India Receives Death Warrant for Not Leaving His Ministry September 23, 2005 The Voice of the Martyrs - Michael F. Haverluck For spreading the Good News in Devanoor, a village in Southern India, 24-year-old evangelist Zacriah was expelled from his village by radical Hindus and given a death warrant if he resumes his ministry there. Zacriah’s ministry started when he joined the Jesus Film Team in their outreach to Hindus in Southern India. Over the past four years, he has ministered in the poor and primitive Hindu village of Devanoor, which is near Shankarayanapuran in the district of Chickmaglur. Serving his small congregation of 15 to 20 members, the devoted evangelist has come under great attack by militant Hindus. These extremists demanded that Zacriah leave the village, located in the state of Karnataka, and not come back. Despite the expulsion order that he received from the radical Hindu group, Zacriah continued his prayer meeting. Because he has refused to comply with the expulsion order, the extremists have awarded him a death penalty. Intervening in this matter, the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) has taking action to protect this bold soldier of Jesus Christ. Zacriah fears the Lord more than man and his death warrants, as he remains a stalwart of faith by his continued witness in a hostile area.
Please pray for Zacriah’s protection and for his continued bold witness.
If India is so peace loving why was there an anti-conversion law! Because of pressure by caring Christians not people like you the law was changed for now.
New Delhi, May. 21, 2004 (CWNews.com) - The defeat of India's ruling Hindu-nationalist coalition has had an echo in the southern Tamil Nadu state, as the local state government has said that it will scrap a controversial anti-conversion law that was enacted two years ago despite Christian protests.
This change of heart by the ruling AIDMAK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam) party in Tamil Nadu follows the drubbing that AIADMK-- an ally of the Hindu nationalist BJP, which had led the national ruling coalition-- received in parliamentary elections, the results of which were announced last week. The AIADMK-BJP alliance lost all the 39 parliamentary seats from the state to the alliance led by the Congress Party, which generally enjoys the support of Christians and other minorities.
Oh here are some names and other places in India where persecution is taking place. And if you want more from other sources I will be happy to provide much more!!!
Christian Persecution in India Continues Attacks on Christians in India are continuing, a Christian persecution watchdog group reported yesterday following a recent report of violence in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan.
Posted: Saturday, March 5 , 2005, 22:52 (UK) Attacks on Christians in India are continuing, a Christian persecution watchdog group reported yesterday following a recent report of violence in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan.
In the latest reported incident of violence against Indian Christians, Dr. Joseph Chavady of One to One International informed persecution watchdog Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) that the Wednesday night worship service led by one of their pastors was interrupted by a group of Hindu militants who entered the prayer hall and severely beat eight One to One workers. "Thankfully there were no permanent injuries," VOM reported. "But the men are very shaken up by the attack."
The leading pastor of the congregation, whose name was withheld by VOM, had been preaching the Gospel and planting churches for almost thirty years in Rajasthan. Wednesday’s incident was the first time that persecution has come so close to his home, VOM reported.
In Rajasthan and in a number of states throughout India, reports of escalating violence against Christians have made their way outside the predominantly Hindu nation and into religious media agencies.
According to reports, the recent wave of violence began on 30 January, when Hindu activists forced their way into a large Christian gathering after hundreds of worshippers had come from towns and villages in India’s Uttar Pradesh state to take part in a prayer rally. The activists reportedly charged that rallies such as the prayer rally were aimed at conversions and that Christians lure the people with gifts of land, money, food and clothes.
In another reported incident of violence, the body of 25-year-old Pastor Narayan was found on Feb. 11 in a small town in Mysore district, Karnataka state. Sajan K. George, national convener of the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), told Compass News that the official report of the autopsy suggested it was a case of suicide. However, George suspects Hindu extremists were responsible for Narayan’s death and that their sympathisers are engaged in a cover-up.
Shortly afterwards, in India’s Kerala state, six theology students with Gospel for Asia (GFA) were forcibly abducted and beaten on Feb. 13 by activists of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the armed wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — the Hindu nationalist party that has been accused of being hostile to religious minorities. On 18 February, GFA reported that police had arrested the five RSS men involved in the attack after a raid conducted by the Deputy Superintendent of Police.
During an interview last week with AsiaNews, Bishop Percival Fernandez—Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India — said the recent wave of violence against Christians in India is part "of a plan led by fundamentalist groups."
"Practically all of these incidents of violence against Christians are masterminded by fundamentalist groups," Fernandez told the Italy-based news agency on 16 February.
Meanwhile, VOM-Canada's Glenn Penner attributed a Hindu nationalist grassroots effort for the increase in harassment — a sobering conclusion, considering the optimism born out of the elections last year.
"We had real hopes with the election of the Congress Party in the spring that we would see a shift away from persecution which we had seen so much in the last five years when the BJP was elected to power," Penner told Mission Network News (MNN) earlier this week.
John Dayal, secretary general of the All India Christian Union—an interdenominational Christian organisation that defends the rights of Indian Christians—was one of several Christian figures that condemned the Feb. 16 and Feb. 27 killings of a Baptist pastor and Pentecostal pastor in the Indian state of Orissa.
In his view, both murders reflected "the precarious and alarming situation" that Christians face in the Indian state.
"I’m appalled at the deteriorating situation," Dayal told AsiaNews. "I’ve written to Prime Minister [Singh] giving documentary and statistical evidence of the attacks on Christians in the last three months. [And] I have asked for an appointment to brief him of the sentiments of the minority community".
Dayal, like Penner, believes the recent attacks on Christians may be politically motivated.
Hindu fundamentalist groups, however, have claimed that the recent string of violence is "a spontaneous reaction by local people against missioners adamant on conversion".
"Christian organisations are on a warpath—accept their religion or face the music," the Hindu nationalist weekly Organizer quoted a Hindu leader in the state as saying.
In an article titled "Proselytisers run amok", another Hindu leader, Jagaram Samukhya, alleged that "Christian missioners in Orissa were on a conversion spree to achieve their target by hook or crook".
Meanwhile, the BJP-led government in India's western state of Rajasthan said last week it was going to introduce a law banning religious conversion.
"We will not allow anyone to convert poor and illiterate people," said State home minister Gulab Chand Kataria.
Although state governments in India do have the power to introduce anti-conversion laws, the World Hindu Council, or Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), welcomed the state government's move.
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Doesn't sound to very friendly to me.