Christian Persecution Update

Pastor Paul Armugam has been doing the ministry in Puthasanthai village in Namakal District since 2002. The name of the church is Bethel Bible Church, Because of his faithful ministry, there are approximately 100 believers in the church. Last Monday (8th April), at midnight a group of people came and poured some petrol into the church windows with the intention to burn the church, It was God’s providence that two of the youth of the church were sleeping in the church, When the miscreants set fire some articles like the floor mat, wall clock and the speakers caught fire, the youth woke up and put off the fire. When they called the Pastor, he rushed to the spot only to see that the miscreants had fled. When this incident was reported to the Nallipalyam Police Station, the Police came and surveyed the church premises and assured the Pastor that they will do their best to apprehend the culprits. Please pray for the Pastor and the congregation.

TNN | Apr 9,
Supreme Court of India on Monday admitted a PublicInterest Litigation against hate speeches. The PIL mentions MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi, who after getting bail in a case for making hate speech went to another district and made an identical speech.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday entertained a PIL alleging that absence of guidelines to deal with hate speeches had resulted in non-prosecution of repeat offenders like MNS chief Raj Thackeray and MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi.  read more »

MUMBAI: Activists of the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti (HJS) Saturday forced a Kolkata-based painter to remove two canvases depicting Hindu goddesses in the nude. The Jehangir Art Gallery that was hosting the exhibition, as well as officers of Colaba police station, urged her to comply in the interest of peace.  read more »

A group of Christians has urged the Indian Churches to express their support and solidarity for the Tibetan people’s right to freedom and justice.
A seminar on “Love thy neighbor – A Christian perspective to Tibet” called the Churches to set up a forum to address issues affecting the Tibetan people.  read more »

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Christian-leader-tells-Hindu-fundamentali...

Christian leader tells Hindu fundamentalists that the constitution guarantees conversions
by Nirmala Carvalho
The head of the Hindu ultra-nationalist group Rashtriya Sawayamsevak Sangh (RSS) states that "Hinduism does not accept conversions" because "they are not necessary." Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) president differentiates Hinduism from the Hindutva ideology in whose name the RSS engages in violence against India's religious minorities.  read more »

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/world/middleeast/in-egypt-attack-on-ch...

CAIRO — Police officers firing tear gas joined with a rock-throwing crowd fighting a group of Christian mourners Sunday in a battle that escalated into an attack on Egypt’s main Coptic Christian Cathedral that lasted for hours.
It was the third day of an outburst of sectarian violence that is testing the pledges of Egypt’s Islamist president to protect the country’s Christian minority. By nightfall, at least one person had died from the day’s clashes, bringing the weekend’s death toll to six.
Later Sunday, President Mohamed Morsi called the Coptic pope, Tawadros II, to reassure him. “I consider any aggression against the cathedral an aggression against me personally,” Mr. Morsi said, according to state media.
The president ordered an investigation of the violence and instructed security forces “to protect the citizens inside the Cathedral,” state media reported, and he pledged to protect both Muslims and Christians.  read more »