Indian Christians Face More Persecution than Ever
Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006 Posted: 11:28:52AM EST

Christians in India are facing more persecution now than any other time in their history, according to the head of a mission organization.

"Our leaders on the mission field tell me that it has become such a regular, daily event that they now report only the worst cases," said Gospel for Asia President K.P. Yohannan.

Yohannan accounted a battle for economic power and control to be the cause of the growing wave of persecution with a group of extremists, holding the supremacist ideology "Hindutva" (Hindu-ness), attempting to control the low-caste majority.

Tracing the power rage back to the Crusaders who tried to control the Holy Land, Yohannan said "without Christ, the human heart never changes – it is always hungry for power."What is happening now in India is a radical minority attempting to “Hinduize” a nation of over a billion people, he continued. The rest