A smiling family stands in a doorway.

Actively Remembering and Serving the "Church Persecuted."

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Call for Death Penalty for Coercive Religious Conversions

Mohan Yadav
Mohan Yadav, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
Photo: India Prime Minister's Office (GODL-India)

The Chief Minister for the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has publicly announced plans to impose the death penalty on those convicted of forced or fraudulent religious conversions. In a public meeting for International Women's Day on March 8th, Mohan Yadav equated such conversions with child molestation, stating that both crimes warrant the imposition of capital punishment. Later that evening, the state government released a statement affirming the announcement made by Mohan.

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Brutal Attack on Christian Worker

Waqas Masih is lying in a hospital bed. He has a tracheostomy tube and a feeding tube.
Waqas Masih.
Photo: HARDS Pakistan via Morning Star News

A 22-year-old Christian man was brutally attacked by his supervisor at a paper mill in Sharaqpur, Punjab, when he refused to renounce his faith in Christ. Having sustained severe injuries to his throat on March 21st, Waqas Masih was hospitalized in Lahore where his condition has been reported as critical but stable.

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Churches Encounter Community Opposition

A white church with a red roof.
A church in Indonesia.

Churches in Indonesia frequently receive opposition from hostile community members and local leaders, particularly when they are seeking to build or utilize a worship facility. Christians in at least three separate communities are presently facing opposition for these reasons.