As Christianity Grows in India, Believers Face Increased Persecution
By Allie Martin
September 8, 2006

(AgapePress) - Attacks against Christians continue throughout India, where last month militant Hindus broke into a Christian pastor's rented house, accusing him of not bowing before Hindu gods. The 50-year-old pastor was forced from his home in the middle of the night as the militant mob threw out all of his personal belongings.

Todd Nettleton is a spokesman with Voice of the Martyrs, a ministry to the persecuted Church around the world. He says the Indian pastor, who has led 18 families for three years at his church, was taken to a local police station by the same Hindu throng that had broken in and ransacked his house.

"The police took him into custody," Nettleton notes. "They later did release him, but they didn't ever do anything against this militant Hindu mob that had broken into his house," he says. "This is yet another example of the persecution of Christians in India, a country which has really increased the level of persecution in recent years." the rest