India: Where the Church is Attacked from Every Angle

From International Christian Concern

Christians in India are increasingly finding that the world’s largest democracy — and recently the world’s largest country overall — is no friend to religious freedom.

India is often celebrated as the world’s most populous democracy. Though true, this factoid does little to protect the millions of non-Hindu religious minorities that call India home. In recent years, religious freedom in the country has rapidly deteriorated in a slide led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the large cohort of Hindu nationalists he encourages and leads. >>>Read More

From Resurrection Life of Jesus Church

The Apostle Thomas moved eastward and traveled as far as to the Southern tip of India in A.D. 52, where a strong church was established. The Gospel spread eastward through the synagogue system, and then converted Jews began to preach to the Gentiles.

Just like in the West, after some time, since the Jewish leadership rejected Jesus as the Messiah, the Christian church in the East became predominantly a “Gentile” church. The church that the apostle Thomas planted in Southern India is now known as the Mar Thomar Syrian Church of South India.