Indian and Asian Christians Targeted for Their Faith

By Published on December 23, 2015

Systematic violence against Christians continues in India to this day, though not often at the appalling scale of the cyclone of cruelty in Kandhamal. An Indian website dedicated to anti-Christian persecution, called Speak Out Against Hate, states that in 2015, there’s been an average of one violent episode every week.

Christians also are targeted in other Asian nations, where their numbers have grown to the point that other faiths, or political powers, feel threatened. Nowhere is the situation more harrowing than North Korea, where tens of thousands of Christians languish in concentration camps, but from China and Vietnam to Myanmar and Pakistan, they face a staggering variety of threats.

Even on that landscape, India is a special danger zone. This fact often comes as a surprise for Westerners whose main touchstone for this vast and complex country is the singular example of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the great Indian nationalist leader of the 20th century, whose name is often treated as synonymous with the Hindu ideal of nonviolence.

For the Christian minority in India today, it is a cruel distortion. They face daily threats of persecution and pogrom, and the world barely knows it.

Read the article “Indian and Asian Christians Targeted for Their Faith” on cruxnow.com.

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