by Sean Reilly | Aug 29, 2008
Churches in India are today closing about 30,000 of their educational institutions across the country to protest against continuing attacks by mobs of Hindu militants in the country’s eastern state of Orissa and which Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 14, 2008
A Hindu woman living in India has produced a 900-page poetic epic on the life and message of Jesus following the style of Hindu classics such as Mahabharat and Ramayan – writes Anto Akkara. “This is the fruit of my great devotion to Jesus Christ,”...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 27, 2007
Officials in the Indian state of Orissa have imposed a curfew in the Kandhamal district and appealed for calm after clashes involving Hindu nationalists and the minority Christian community. The violence, which began on Monday 24 December 2007 with a dispute over...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 24, 2007
Young Christians have been meeting near Katmandu in Nepal, a country emerging towards democracy and pluralism. Many are now attracted to Christianity in the predominantly Hindu kingdom which now has a formally secular state. Anto Akkara writes: When Raju Lama embraced...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 15, 2007
Some people estimate that Christians make up more than one third of the 300,000 people in the now-closed mining area of the Kolar Gold Fields in India’s southern Karnataka state – writes Anto Akkara from India. Others suggest that with Evangelical groups...
