Bhopal
A US national has accused the Madhya Pradesh police of conducting an illegal search of personal belongings of her 20 female students in Umaria district Thursday on alleged conversion charges.Nicole Jaquis in her complaint to American embassy and other Indian agencies said police along with saffron activists carried out the illegal search of their premises on the false accusation that they were in the district on a Christian conversion mission.  read more »

Lingarajpuram – Bangalore: 19-12-2011- Agape Bible Church was attacked and Sunday worship Service was stopped by the Hindu fanatics at Pillanna Garden near Lingarajpuram, in Bangalore, on Sunday morning, 18-12-2011. As also reported in the secular media, over 200 activists of the right wing group Hindu Jagran Vedike, barged into the church when the Sunday prayers were on and attacked its Pastors Reuben Satyaraj and Perumal Fernandes. It was a regular Sunday Service wherein some of the believers “were only being given baptism to confirm their membership to the church, as part of a regular year-end program,” according to the statement of one of the church leaders.  read more »

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Karnataka: a young man is arrested on false charges of abduction and forced conversion
by Nirmala Carvalho
Praveen D’Souza is accused of helping a Hindu teenager escape from home. Radical Hindus make the charge with the complicity of police. This is a “classic example” of a “baseless and false complaint,” said Sajan K George.  read more »

GENEVA – A coalition representing most Christian churches around the world launched a rule book on Tuesday for spreading their faith that aims to reduce tensions among themselves and with followers of other faiths.The pioneering code of conduct, under negotiation for five years, was unveiled by the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Vatican and the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), which together claim to represent over 90% of Christianity.  read more »

Thane, Apr 22: The Palghar police arrested six people for alleged forceful conversion of Hindu tribals to the Christian faith.The police arrested six people last night following a complaint lodged by Santosh Laxman Tokre of Deokop village in Palghar taluka, who said a group of people were enticing tribals to get converted from Hinduism to Christianity.Global council of Indian Christians(GCIC) slams Mahrashtra police for motivated action against Christians in Thane  read more »

Mulky-(Mangalore), Apr 3:
Mulki: The women and children welfare department officials led by Asha Nayak on Saturday raided Ebenezer Mercy Home,said to be the centre run by the Pentecostal community of Christians and situated on the Haleangady-Pakshikere road. The officials took into their custody twentynine children who were allegedly being ill-treated in the hostel.Later the children were shifted to the remand home.

It all started with media reports a few days ago with a complaint from the residents that effluent water from the prayer centre was being released to the roads, causing inconvenience and creating health hazards.It is said that over the past four years the centre was being run under the control of Bethel ministry of Bangalore.Twenty eight children were reportedly staying in the centre without any records out of which- 18 children from Karnataka, 7 from Bihar and rest from other states.

The Centre's Version

However, K J Joy along with wife Elizabeth and son Joel and Joby, who supervised the centre, said that they had been looking after the children at the request of their parents and guardians. He said that they looked after needy children entirely with the help of donations. he also explained that their ministry has over 30 such support centres. Sujay,one of the inmates, said they were being well cared for.  read more »