Thirty-five bodies found inside well after collapse at Indian temple
New Delhi, India AP Thirty-five bodies have been found inside a well at a Hindu temple in central India after dozens of people fell into the muddy water when the well’s cover collapsed, officials said Friday. Video of Thursday’s collapse at the temple complex in Indore in Madhya Pradesh state showed chaos afterward, with people […]
Virus-idled Indian workers dig into a new job: boosting water security
Sagar, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Basant Ahirwar worked as an expert mason in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state before the country’s coronavirus lockdown shut down business and forced him to return, jobless and largely on foot, to his home in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state. Now, however, he has found new work: Digging water capture pits […]
Christian leader in Madhya Pradesh, India, run over by motorcycles while his faith was mocked – report
An evangelical Christian leader in India was beaten and then run over by motorcycles ridden by Hindu extremists last week, sources in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have told Morning Star News. Isaac Paulose, 48, was attacked on 3rd March and left with injuries including a fractured rib and multiple fractures in his left […]
Australia to return historic Indian artefacts amid investigation
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australia will return three culturally significant artefacts to India when Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits the country early next year, the Australian Government said on Wednesday. The artefacts were bought in good faith by the National Gallery of Australia from a New York-based art dealer who is currently under investigation, the Prime Minister’s […]
Christians’ names missing from electoral lists in India
World Watch Monitor Hundreds of Christians in India’s Madhya Pradesh state found their names missing from the lists of voters in elections for the State Assembly on 28th November, AsiaNews reports. One of them was the Bishop of Bhopal, Leo Cornelio, who told AsiaNews that after waiting at the polling station for 45 minutes and presenting […]
Indian PM speaks out against “menace” of mob attacks for first time
World Watch Monitor India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has for the first time condemned violence against minorities, saying that everyone has a duty to fight the “menace” of mob lynchings. But his critics say that, after four years in power at the head of a Hindu nationalist government, the comments have come too late. Attacks on […]
Catholic bishops in India warn against Hindu nationalism as religious hate crimes rise
World Watch Monitor An acknowledgement by India’s BJP-led government that there has been a rise in religion-based hate crime has coincided with a warning from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India about the dangers to the country of a Hindu-nationalist agenda. Statistics revealed in India’s parliament on 6th February confirmed a long-standing allegation by rights […]
Indian carol singers arrested for “trying to convert people to Christianity”
World Watch Monitor Six carol singers have been arrested in India after they were accused of trying to convert people to Christianity. The carol singers, one of whom is a professor at a Catholic theological college, insisted they were only singing songs, but a Hindu man alleged he had been told to “worship Jesus Christ” […]
India detains Christians for “converting” children at Bible camp
BosNewsLife Tensions were rising in northern India this week after authorities stopped buses carrying more than 70 Christian children and prevented them from proceeding to a Bible summer camp in Madhya Pradesh state, rights activists and officials said. Local authorities also detained 10 adult Christian chaperones of the children saying they violated India’s conversion legislation […]