http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26369/christians-in-kashmir-india-increasingly-fearful-report-says http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26369/christians-in-kashmir-india-increasingly-fearful-report-says#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:18:37 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26369 A fact-finding mission to India’s Kashmir Valley found that Muslim leaders’ increasingly shrill opposition to conversions has instilled fear among the Christian minority, which has been threatened as Christmas nears.

Christians in Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s northern-most state of Jammu and Kashmir, are “really scared,” said Dr. John Dayal, a member of the National Integration Council and part of the fact-finding team.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26369/christians-in-kashmir-india-increasingly-fearful-report-says/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26341/pastor%e2%80%99s-arrest-stir%e2%80%99s-anti-christian-sentiment-in-kashmir-india http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26341/pastor%e2%80%99s-arrest-stir%e2%80%99s-anti-christian-sentiment-in-kashmir-india#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:06:31 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26341 Charges that a pastor “lured” Muslims to Christianity by offering money are false and have put the lives of the clergyman and other Christians in danger, according to Bishop Pradeep Kumar Samantaroy of the Church of North India denomination.

The allegations of allurement appear to have turned Muslim clergy and separatist leaders against the Christians.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26341/pastor%e2%80%99s-arrest-stir%e2%80%99s-anti-christian-sentiment-in-kashmir-india/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26177/muslims-helping-to-rebuild-christian-school-in-kashmir http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26177/muslims-helping-to-rebuild-christian-school-in-kashmir#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:38:02 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26177 Muslims in Kashmir, in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, are supporting the re-building of a Christian school that was destroyed by fire during anti-Christian violence one year ago.

On 13 September, 2010, the Tyndale Biscoe School was the target of Muslims protesting a reported desecration of the Quran in the U.S. that marked the ninth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26177/muslims-helping-to-rebuild-christian-school-in-kashmir/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25608/india-girls-escaping-anti-christian-violence-face-sexual-abuse http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25608/india-girls-escaping-anti-christian-violence-face-sexual-abuse#comments Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:13:25 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25608 Girls escaping deadly anti-Christian violence in India's volatile state of Orissa face sexual after human traffickers falsely promise them a better life, human rights investigators claim.

At least four girls have been trafficked to India's metropolis Delhi where they were "sold" to a placement agency, according to advocacy groups All India Christian Council (AICC) and Human Rights Law Network’s Anti-Human Trafficking Initiatives.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25608/india-girls-escaping-anti-christian-violence-face-sexual-abuse/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25145/indian-supreme-court-defers-religious-site-verdict http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25145/indian-supreme-court-defers-religious-site-verdict#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:49:39 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25145 India's Supreme Court stepped in at the last minute to delay the issuance of a verdict that was to decide whether Hindus or Muslims had rights to a controversial religious site in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

The Indian government prepared extensively for the ruling on the Babri Masjid site, where a Hindu mob destroyed a mosque in 1992 sparking widespread rioting nationwide that left an estimated 2,000 people dead. Since then, the government deployed thousands of troops to the site, taken out ads in newspapers appealing for calm in the wake of the verdict, and officials asked the public to handle the verdict without knee jerk reactions.

Though there was a mosque on the site in 1992, many Hindus believe that the site is the birthplace of Lord Ram and that a temple once existed there. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25145/indian-supreme-court-defers-religious-site-verdict/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25142/india-braces-for-court-verdict-on-divisive-mosque-site http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25142/india-braces-for-court-verdict-on-divisive-mosque-site#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:16:04 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25142 India is bracing for a historic verdict Friday on whether Hindus or Muslims have rights to a disputed religious site, in a test of whether the issue will stir passions as it did in 1992, when a mosque at the site was destroyed by a Hindu mob and an estimated 2,000 people died in rioting that followed.

Since then, the Babri Masjid, a mosque in the town of Ayodhya in the state of Uttar Pradesh, has come to represent the deep and violent divisions that occasionally erupt within India's multifaith democracy.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25142/india-braces-for-court-verdict-on-divisive-mosque-site/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24866/200-witches-killed-in-india-each-year-report http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24866/200-witches-killed-in-india-each-year-report#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:08:33 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24866 As many as 200 women are lynched every year in India after being accused of practising witchcraft, a study by a charity has found.

Avdhash Kaushal, chairman of the Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra, said that most victims were single or widowed and were often targeted for their land or money.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24866/200-witches-killed-in-india-each-year-report/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24251/india-state-jails-evangelists-police-for-converting-hindus http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24251/india-state-jails-evangelists-police-for-converting-hindus#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:36:37 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24251 Four Christians, including three evangelists and a police officer, have been jailed in India's central state of Chhattisgarh for "converting" Hindus to Christianity, after they were injured in an attack by Hindu militants, Christian officials confirmed Saturday April 17.

In statements, Hindu militants defended their actions saying they were also attacked by Christians and suffering injuries.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24251/india-state-jails-evangelists-police-for-converting-hindus/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24198/over-1000-anti-christian-attacks-in-karnataka-india http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24198/over-1000-anti-christian-attacks-in-karnataka-india#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:31:32 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24198 Karnataka – once a symbol of India’s economic progress and of freedom – has now become a hub of right-wing Hindu extremism, according to the Evangelical Fellowship of India.

Christian investigators say Christian persecution increased after the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) became Karnataka's main ruling party in 2008.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24198/over-1000-anti-christian-attacks-in-karnataka-india/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19195/satyug-sect http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19195/satyug-sect#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:55:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19195/satyug-sect http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19195/satyug-sect/feed 0