INDIA — Several church buildings have been burned down and destroyed by a Hindu militant group called the F´Bajrang Dal. Many pastors have been beaten and jailed, including our own Church of God pastors.
“India is being destroyed,”says K.P.Yohannan, president and founder of Texas- based Gospel for Asia. “What we are seeing is a breakdown of the rule of law, and the Christians are suffering because of it.”
Reports of more than 75 separate attacks on Gospel for Asia-related work in Orissa have resulted in the deaths of at least six local believers since radical mobs went on a rampage after the murder of a leading anti-Christian activist.
8.8.08 will signal the start of the long-awaited 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on Friday with the elaborate opening ceremonies.
The Chinese consider eight a lucky number because in Cantonese it sounds like the word for “get rich” or “prosper.”
The three activists were physically removed from Tiananmen Square by Chinese officials after displaying a banner which said “Jesus Christ is King”, laying roses to honor those brutally killed during the massacre in 1989 and praying for human rights in China.
This report describes the persecution of Christians in terms of both the historical experience of Christians in Pakistan and of the draconian religious laws introduced in Pakistan through the 1980s and 1990s.
