India Under Growing Persecution

Last week I received an email from Gospel for Asia and I noted today that the Christian Post has an article about the same issue - Christian persecution in India.  This is especially interesting to me especially since President Bush is going to be visiting India this week.

The article begins this way...

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.

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"Why persecute Christians?" asked Yohannan. "Because, just like in England and America in centuries past, believers in Jesus are the ones today working and praying toward the liberation of millions of 'slaves' (Dalits and other lower castes) on the Indian subcontinent."

Christian missionaries from the Bible Society of India were recently forced to shut down their relief operations in the Jammu and Kashmir regions as villagers accused them of carrying out conversions. Recent reports also state that militant anti-social elements are seeking to prevent the graduation of over 10,000 Bible school and seminary students from the Emmanuel Theological Seminary in Kota, Rajasthan, according to Hopegivers International, a leading Indian Christian organization.

"Today, India is at a crossroads," Yohannan said. "And we as believers in Jesus have the opportunity to help make an impact on this nation that will last for eternity."

Please join me in praying for India today.  God desires that none should perish and that all be free.  Please pray for deliverance.