Christians Confined to Home by Police, Tribal Threats in India

Young children among family members beaten.

A Christian family in eastern India has been confined to their home for months amid police threats to jail them for “breach of peace” after tribal mob assaults for leaving their native religion, sources said.

The mob of tribal followers of native religion gathered police and news media to accompany them when they beat Christians in Jharkhand state’s Khala village, Garhwa District, earlier this year, said one of the attacked Christians, Asha Korwa, a mother of two young children.

“The mob brought with them the village president, media and police officers,” said Korwa, whose children, ages 3 and 6, were beaten on Jan. 31 along with her and her husband. “As the media clicked our pictures and videotaped the attack, the police watched as mere spectators. They did not stop the assailants or the media.” Read More

US Christians, particularly white evangelicals, who complain about the persecution here in the United States need to go to Indian and other parts of the world where Christians really experience persecution, the kind of persecution that may cost Christians their lives. US Christians like to play the role of victim and to cast the government in the role of persecutor. Indian Christians, however, are suffering real persecution, not the imaginary kind, at the hands of their neighbors, at the hands of the police, and at the hands of the politicians.