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Radicals Rejected
Radicals Rejected. Orissa Christians breathe easier after election defeat of Hindu extremists. Terror in Orissa | It's time for India to start acting like the world's largest democracy.
Terror in Orissa 
Terror in Orissa. It's time for India to start acting like the world's largest democracy. Orissa witnessed other attacks against. Christians just last Christmas.
Worse Than Ever 
Like many people in the eastern India state of Orissa, Nikhil Kumar Kanodia knew an attack on Christians was imminent. But unlike others, Kanodia was a police superintendent.
Christian President Retains Office, Pastor Kidnapped in Mexico, & Other News
Tribals arrested for converting. INDIA Twelve people were arrested in Orissa state for converting to Christianity without first notifying police. Officials say
How to Be Un-Born Again
The RSS arm entrusted with enforcement follows with attacks. A 1967 law in Orissa bars religious conversion by use of force and by means of inducement or allurement.
U.S. Christian Leaders Protest Anti-Christian Violence in India
(See complete list of signatories below.). Mob violence against Christians has centered on Kandhamal in Orissa state. Approximately 20 percent of those
Persecution Prompts Missions Agency to Transform
(October 9, 2008). India's Burning Issue| Conversions in Orissa—and the violent reaction against them—highlight tension in India's not-so-dead caste system. (January 1, 2008).
How Christian Leaders Have Changed Since 9/11
seek to harm us. In 1999, Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines was burned to death by a Hindu mob in Orissa, India. In 2007, German missionary
Regent U. Struggles to Stay Afloat (*Updated), Court Rules that Feeding Poor Is Not Religious, and Other News
Editor's note: CT has posted an update and a response from Regent president Carlos Campo on Liveblog. Hindu nationalist finally convicted of Orissa riots.
India's Grassroots Revival
Radicals Rejected | Orissa Christians breathe easier after election defeat of Hindu extremists. Terror in Orissa | It's time for India to start acting like the world's largest democracy.
India's Burning Issue
Conversions in Orissa—and the violent reaction against them—highlight tension in India's not-so-dead caste system. Christianity Today: Our Ministry ChristianityToday.org.
Borders' Bankruptcy Affects Christian Orgs, Pregnancy Center Signs Violate Free Speech & More News
The ruling upheld the life sentences for two Indians who burned missionary Graham Staines and his young sons to death outside an Orissa church in 1999.
Premeditated Mobs
Observers and Christian leaders say India's largest incident of sustained anti-Christian violence, which rendered thousands homeless in Orissa State, was preplanned.
States Pass Abortion Restrictions, Crystal Cathedral in the Red, and Other News
Violence in Karnataka 'outdoes Orissa'. Justice Michael Saldanha said the attacks were worse than in Orissa, a state known for anti-Christian pogroms over the past decade.
Passages
He was 63. Killed • Biskesan Pradhan, a former Hindu extremist who converted to Christianity, brutally murdered in the Indian state of Orissa. Police are investigating.
The Weapon Satan Can't Stand
With a $300,000 budget and sizable crew, Wilson journeys to Orissa, where India's Christian minority has long endured attacks by Hindu nationalists, yet is learning the glory of suffering
News Briefs
India's Supreme Court warned the state government of Orissa in January that it will not "tolerate persecution of religious minorities." If officials cannot protect Christians, "then quit office
Quotation Marks
kill a pastor is $250." Faiz Rahman, chairman of Good News India, on rewards offered by extremist Hindu groups for the killing of Christian leaders and destruction of churches in Orissa.
Top News Stories of 2008
as key to passing the proposition. 3. Christians in Orissa, India, again become scapegoats for Hindu extremists. Reports say scores of people were killed
Philip Yancey: Escaping the Bullets
That partly explains the recent outbreak of violence in Orissa in the northeast of India, where in August alone, 50,000 Christians were chased out of their homes and dozens were killed.










