The Federal government of India has sent national police into the State of Orissa, but the persecution of Christians by Hindu radicals continues unabated.
One of the major issues behind the persecution is the traditional caste system. The lowest castes are converting to Christianity, particularly the Dalits or so-called ‘untouchables’, who used to live [...]

I have literally found at least a dozen references in articles to the Pentecostal ‘Prosperity Gospel’ as actually one of the factors in the economic downturn, particularly the mortgage crisis. The main article that everyone is quoting is from Time Magizine online: “Maybe We Should Blame God for the Subprime Mess“, by David Van [...]

Three Christians were killed and over 400 Christian homes were burned by extremist mobs as the violence continues this week in Orissa. Read the entire Compass Direst report if you have the stomach for it, the details are rather brutal.            *Top

 The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit Friday (10/3/08) in U.S. district court, over The National Day of Prayer.
The suit argues that the president’s yearly proclamations calling on and encouraging Americans to pray every year for the country on the first Thursday of May, violates a constitutional ban on endorsing religion.
Response: This is [...]

There is a new law that was preliminarily passed by the Iran’s parliament, which would mandate the death penalty for anybody convicted of apostasy. Currently, apostasy is punishable by death in Iran, but the final decision rests with a judge. Very few have been executed under the current law.
If this new law is implemented, [...]

   leaders of the Christian India community in greater Chicago held a press conference and announced that today (Sunday) they will hold a peace rally in support of the persecuted Christians in India’s state of Orissa.
The following appeal was sent by Bishop Rt. Rev. Dr. Mar Jacob Angadiath of St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of [...]

Found this over at the Persecution Blog a new U.S. State Department 2008 Report on International Religious Freedom. Here is the current list of offending nations that are the worst at restricting the freedom of religion—and the ‘winners’ for 2008 are:
 Burma, China, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan.
There are really [...]

The federal government of India warned the states that they might step in to take control if the violence and persecution against Christians continues.
Meanwhile, it has spread to a number of different states and now there has even been an incident in the capital city–New Delhi.
Here is a Compass Direct article detailing specific [...]

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Every State, Every County, Every Heart On Thursday, September 11th 2008 at Noon local time, people will be praying and crying out to God for a new Awakening in America! To find out if there is a Coordinator for your county, please click here, [...]

Here is a CT article which contains an interview of Hindu radicals in Northern India that boldly proclaim that they intend to continue persecuting Christians and destroying or eliminating all of them:
"Now we have risen and we will destroy them all."

The article lists 41 different incidents of persecution perpetrated against Christians–their stated goal and [...]