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India
The South Asian nation of India is the world’s second most populated, and its seventh-largest in terms of landmass. Though the nation has gained traction as a technology-driven economic power, large pockets of the population linger in oppression: the Dalit, or “untouchables,” continue to face discrimination at the base of an oppressive caste system, baby girls are sold into sexual slavery and often left to die, and thousands of starving poor languish in slums outside urban centers. Conflicts frequently erupt between Christians and Hindus—clashes over conversions left the eastern state of Orissa devastated during the mid 2000s—in a land where the church is active but persecuted, and humanitarians flock but are impeded as they fight for social reform.
India's Grassroots Revival
With its people turning to Christ in waves, India hosts more believers now than at any time in its 4,000-year history.
July 8, 2011
Missions Agency Transforms
Operation Mobilization India transforms itself into a local witness.
October 21, 2011
More on India
Antidote to Poison
I was haunted by failure to the edge of suicide—and then came life.
April 26, 2013
The Holocaust Happening Right Under Our Noses
In some countries, hearing "It's a girl" is no cause for celebration—it's a death sentence. A new film captures global gendercide.
October 26, 2012
'Unwanted' Girls Defy Sexism in India
How will Americans respond to the unwanted kids in their midst?
December 5, 2011
Persecution Prompts Missions Agency to Transform
Operation Mobilization India transforms itself into a local witness.
October 21, 2011
India's Grassroots Revival
With its people turning to Christ in waves, India hosts more believers now than at any time in its 4,000-year history.
July 8, 2011
The Lost Girls of China and India
Why so many baby girls are being killed in the world's two largest countries.
June 29, 2011
Dead Space: Christians Demand Burial Land in Crowded Kathmandu
Nepal's Supreme Court due to rule Monday on Christian and Hindu lawsuits.
April 8, 2011
Assaulted Woman to Be Kept Alive, Rules India Court
Until the story of Aruna Shanbaug, I had never heard the phrase "passive euthanasia," let alone grappled with whether or not I participated in it nearly 20 years ago.
March 14, 2011
Outsourcing Baby-Making in India
The disturbing realities of reproductive tourism as a global growth sector.
October 21, 2010
Snakes on a (Spiritual) Plane
The varieties of Elizabeth Gilbert's spiritual experiences.
August 16, 2010
India: It's Complicated
By sticking to her ashram, Elizabeth Gilbert misses out - and so do her readers.
August 12, 2010
Audio Bibles Propel Scripture into Remote Regions
Technological advances are delivering Scripture across the globe.
January 20, 2010
Pew Forum Releases Landmark Survey of International Religious Freedom
70 percent of the world lives in areas with high restrictions on religion, report says.
December 16, 2009
The Trouble with Depicting Jesus
Is a Bible showing the Holy Family in traditional Indian clothes any worse than one depicting them as doe-eyed Caucasians in pastels?
December 15, 2009
Radicals Rejected
Orissa Christians breathe easier after election defeat of Hindu extremists.
June 22, 2009
First Dalit Woman Elected to India Parliament
Christian groups hope Meira Kumar will raise profile of India's Untouchables.
June 15, 2009
Searching for Radical Faith
I traveled from Portland to Delhi, and this is what I found.
February 27, 2009
Philip Yancey: Escaping the Bullets
A speaking tour in India led to a few close calls.
December 8, 2008
How to Be Un-Born Again
India's biggest radical Hindu group aims to wipe out Christianity through reconversions and violence.
November 10, 2008
U.S. Christian Leaders Protest Anti-Christian Violence in India
Open letter to George W. Bush urges diplomatic action.
November 7, 2008
Terror in Orissa 
It's time for India to start acting like the world's largest democracy.
October 9, 2008
Worse Than Ever
Christians knew the attacks were coming, but no one knew they would be this deadly.
October 9, 2008
Premeditated Mobs
Hindu extremists exploit economic fears to launch attacks on Christians.
February 15, 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 10, 2008
Powering Down
World Vision India head Jayakumar Christian on how the poor become movers and shakers, and movers and shakers become poor.
August 31, 2007
Caught on Tape
Videotaped attack in India triggers protests as Dalit Christians head to Supreme Court.
July 20, 2007
Christ, My Bodhisattva
Multinational businessman and politician Ram Gidoomal talks about 'translating' the gospel in today's world.
April 27, 2007
Outsourcing Birth: Let an Indian Woman Have Your Baby
Plus: Good news from Europe on stem-cell funding.
April 5, 2006
Militants Besiege Mission in North India
Hindu nationalists crack down on ministry to poor, sick.
March 17, 2006
The Soul Hunters of Central Asia
The most Baptist state in the world—Nagaland—is vying to become a powerhouse for cross-cultural missions.
February 1, 2006
The Rest of the Story
Half a century after killing five missionaries, the 'Auca' find themselves on the cutting edge of modern missions.
January 1, 2006
Indian Pentecost
How a "Holy Ghost revival" among child widows in India became an international sensation and a local wellspring of Christian outreach.
September 9, 2005
Indian Court Commutes Death Penalty for Staineses' Murderer
Christians worried as attacks continue with little interference from the government.
May 25, 2005
Hindu Radical Redux
Church leaders report more than 200 new incidents of persecution.
April 15, 2005
Analysis: India’s narrow path to religious freedom
Finding a way to conversion through the Himachal Pradesh court ruling. (Open Doors News)
‘India’s Billy Graham’ Buried In New Delhi
Hundreds of mourners have braved heavy rain to attend the burial of controversial Indian evangelist Peramangalam Porinju Job, who became a global voice for persecuted Christians in Muslim and Communist nations. (BosNewsLife)
Caste First, Christ Second, for Some Indian Christians
The difference between those supporting the Supreme Court case—which would allow Christian Dalits the same civic benefits as Hindu, Muslim, or Buddhist Dalits—and a group like PCLM is in how they see the relationship between religion and caste. Becoming part of the scheduled caste may earn the community benefits, but it also would codify the communal designation of Christian Dalit. (Religion Dispatches)
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