Hard-line Hindus seek to revoke registration of Christian charities, as a well-strategized plan to show Christians in a bad light.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom annual report denounces that “the pandemic fostered misinformation targeting religious minorities”.

Church leader in southwest India loses hearing in one ear.

The General Secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) analyses the tragic situation caused by the new Covid-19 wave. He calls on believers worldwide to pray for India and its churches.

Finny Philip, an evangelical leader in Northern India, describes how the Covid-19 crisis is affecting churches. He shares 7 specific prayer requests.

“Church leaders, pastors and congregation members are taken away forever from the midst of us. Our hearts are totally broken”, writes an evagelical leader. Thousands die without access to hospitals.

Vijayesh Lal, leader of the Evangelical Fellowship of India, says Christians are making a difference in times of Covid-19: “Local churches are providing relief to their neighbouring communities”.

In a written statement to the UN Human Rights Council, the WEA also addresses the deteriorating environment for religious minorities in India and the incitement to violence of anti-conversion laws.

Officers and Hindu extremists threaten and beat Christian men, women and children.

A Korean Christian and three nationals have been accused of fraudulent conversion attempts while distributing food to people in need.

“We thought Covid-19 was going to minimize the effect of persecution, but it has been the opposite. Persecution has increased”, says the director of Open Doors Spain. The organisation releases its annual World Watch List.

A large mob brutally attacked a home and a church, accusing Christians of converting people and celebrating with loud music.

A call to global prayer. An article by Jacob Daniel.

Hindu extremists falsely accuse a pastor and four other Christians of eating cow beef.

The Evangelical Fellowship of India denounces that Christians “are warned to leave their faith or face consequences” and urges the state “to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice”.

Spain, the UK, Italy, Turkey, France and Germany are the European countries with more cases, which are spreading among younger people.

A research of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasts world population to shrink after mid-century. “The solution are open migration policies and social measures to support families”.

The search for a vaccine against coronavirus involves historical moral debates. What do Christian scientists say about it?

“When we entered the police station for the identification process, the attacker was treated like a VIP, not as a criminal,” says the brother-in-law of the pastor.

A tribal mob, incited by Hindu extremists, killed the 16-year-old, falsely accusing him and other targeted Christians of practicing black magic.

Animists in various villages harass Christians who refuse to renounce their faith.

“That pastor was killed, but you did not learn a lesson”, the gunmen said before shooting the daughter of a pastor who was killed in the same house.

Nurturing the seeds of a young global movement.

The family has also been socially banished from this village and treated as untouchables.

Millions face a ‘double crisis’ as the Covid-19 epidemic grows. “Migrant workers are walking hundreds of kilometres desperated to reach their home villages”, says an evangelical pastor. “Thousands of Christian doctors, nurses and paramedics are serving in the frontline”.