Let us pray for courage and wisdom for the Christians as they continue sharing the gospel, and let us pray for God’s provision and deliverance. 

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Members are working on obtaining documents that will allow them to reopen the church. Since the closure, no church members have denied their faith despite intense pressure to do so.    (Voice of the Martyrs Click here )

Opposition from Hinduta groups, violent attacks, false charges, and even imprisonment has increased rapidly in the area. In the middle of January, the Hindutva leaders even held a large meeting near Pastor Paul's church in Mundath. The sole purpose was to intimidate the church and to force the police to shut the church down, which they eventually did.
(Brother Bennie Alpha Ministries <info@alphaministries.com>) 

India’s church is exhausted by the surge of anticonversion laws and accusations of illegal proselytization. They’re tired of mobs driving out Christians from their villages and the possibility that many face property destruction and personal violence. Perhaps most significantly, they’re angry at a government that passively enables these actions at best and actively foments them at worst.

Last week, 22,000 Christians across the denominational spectrum and from around the country gathered together in their nation’s capital to demand better.

“This protest is basically to call the attention of the government to the increasing violence against Christians and our institutions. These attacks are without reasons and basis,” Metropolitan Youhanon Mar Demetrios at the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in Delhi told CT. “So, we are calling upon the government to ask how the protection of the Christians and their institutions will be guaranteed. We are not asking for anything out of the ordinary.”

Major national media outlets like Outlook and The Indian Express and the YouTube channel India Speaks, among others, covered the protest ... 

“This coming together of all the denominations is not to show our muscle power; rather, it is a unity to strengthen the kingdom of God,” said Abraham Mathew of the National Council of Churches in India.

“It is a cry of our people for their brothers and sisters who are suffering in rural areas. They have the right to believe in their God, but that is being curtailed. There is no other hope for us but only crying to God to save us, and this is a loud cry,” he added…

But the protest also offered a time for many Christian leaders from different parts of India to share and lament the way their communities are being targeted.

Bhupendra Khora, an activist hailing from Chhattisgarh, provided a first-person account of the oppression that Christian Adivasis residing in the Bastar region have been enduring. In December 2022, in what appeared to be a coordinated assault, Hindu radicals in the area offered their Christian neighbors three choices: deny their faith, abandon their ancestral homes, or face death.

Those who chose to stay were attacked, their homes and places of worship demolished, their crops set on fire, and their animals killed and consumed—atrocities that have been confirmed by numerous fact-finding investigations ...

[Let us lift up our hands and pray …]