Global India: The Daily Persecution of Orissa’s Christians

Spero News has a great run down on what happens to Christians in India.  Full article here.

Forced conversions, prohibition of buying goods in shops, the faithful have to live in half-ruined houses without roofs and dirt floors: in In Kandhamal violence against Christians is "normal". The authorities do not intervene. The report of a special fact-finding group.

New Delhi - Christians are persecuted, banished even from shops, left alone to die if they need to be taken by car to hospital. This is the everyday 'reality' 'in Kandhamal, the lawless and insecure region, described in the report published on 8 November by a group of activists. But the authorities of the state of Orissa have been saying that everything is "normal" after the violent persecution of recent years in which many Christians have been killed and tens of thousands forced to flee from home.