India

Two years after losing relatives and property to anti-Christian violence, survivors in India's Orissa state are still being pressured to "return" to Hinduism, according to a private investigation.

Hindu and Muslim militants have attacked several Christians and a church in several incidents across the country as part of efforts to crackdown on the spread of Christianity in the country, Christians said.

A pastor was attacked and his house church burnt by Hindus in Karnataka.

A court in Buddhist Bhutan sentenced a Christian to three years imprisonment for "attempting to promote civil unrest" by showing films about Christianity.

A Pentecostal pastor in Karnataka was arrested and charged with conducting false religious conversions on Sept. 26.

Hindutva activists attacked a church in Chittoor, but five Christians were the only ones arrested.

Communist Rebels decapitated a pastor and cut up his body after murdering him, and severely beat his wife in Valam Guve Village, India, according to a Washington-based Christian human rights organization.

Tensions remained high Wednesday, September 15, in several parts of India where reports of Koran burning in the United States sparked deadly attacks against Christian institutions.

Suspected Buddhist militants attacked Christian aid workers in a flood stricken area in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Christians said Saturday, September 11, and there was also anti-Christian violence reported elsewhere the country.

A Christian school was torched as thousands of Islamic fundamentalists took to the streets in Kashmir following a report on an Iranian TV Channel of a Koran being desecrated in New York over the weekend. At least 13 people were killed and scores injured in clashes.