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VBS 2012 in Kerala

 Here is your opportunity to make a                    difference in a child’s life!   VBS time is just around the corner as school’s are getting ready to close down for the summer at the end of March. We are planning something different this year. We want to [...]

Hindu Radicals, Indian Police Collaborate To Persecute Christians

India Briefs: Recent Incidents of Persecution Christians in India continue to face persecution at the hands of Hindu radicals. The Indian police, instead of protecting the persecuted, sides with the persecutors. 02/29/2012 India (CDN)-State police on Feb. 21 arrested a Christian after Hindu extremists from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) accused him of forceful conversion [...]

Hindu Radicals, Indian Police Collaborate To Persecute Christians

Karnataka, 20 Christians in prayer assaulted and humiliated, accused of proselytizing

It is the third anti-Christian incident in the state in 2012. Ultra-nationalist RSS (Rashtriya Sangh Savayansevak) have beaten, stripped and dragged the pastor in front of the whole village. Other incidents in Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir. President of the Global Council of Indian Christians: “The complicity between the government and ultranationalist forces are seriously [...]

Karnataka is Most Dangerous State In South India For Christians

Karnataka Most Dangerous State In India For Christians Southern state remains most volatile place for third straight year.      (CDN)-Attacks on Christians accelerated over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays in the south Indian state of Karnataka, which was identified as the most unsafe place for the religious minority for the third consecutive year [...]

Threats in Kandhmal Oressa INDIA

Three years after the widespread persecution of Christians in Orissa state, India, gained worldwide attention, Christians in Kandhamal district continue to suffer at the hands of Hindu extremists. Three Christian leaders were brutally murdered in Kandhamal in 2011, and local authorities apparently did little to find and prosecute their killers. In 2007 and 2008, many [...]

Open air preaching

Today was another successful day of open air preaching from the van. Pastor Lijo, Paul, Johnson, Joseph, Babu & myself were sharing the gospel. We went to many remote villages in the area. The people are mainly Muslim or Hindu belief. We split up into two teams. The first team was Lijo and Johnson. The [...]

Government trying to add Hindu book Bhagavad Gita in the school curriculum the state

Determined to override the religious sensitivities involved, Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda is considering introducing the Bhagavad Gita in the school curriculum in the state.  Favouring the proposal of the BJP government in Karnataka, Chief Minister Gowda said he would seek public opinion for the inclusion of Gita in primary and secondary schools. “The [...]

Jesus Kids – vbs

VBS:   We recently had two VBS programs in our local area of Vellikulangara. We had 200 children attend. We played special games, taught songs. taught Bible stories, had water balloon fights & jumped in the Moon Walk. These children we so happy to be there & eager to learn. We had such a wonderful [...]

From Crazy to Resurrected with Christ

We were so blessed to be able to witness this precious woman’s baptism. I was absolutely touched as she was baptized at a public lake in a country in which such a decision could cause severe persecution. She was so full of joy and had a big smile on her face the whole time. Here [...]