2017 Was the Worst Year for Christian Persecution in India
A new report in The Christian Post finds that as Christian persecution continues to rise in India under the governance of a Hindu nationalist party, an evangelical group described 2017 as “one of the most traumatic for the Christian community” in 10 years. The Tide ® has been sharing the Gospel in India for four decades, and reaches new and potential believers there in multiple languages. “With a population of over 1.3 billion people, India is very densely populated,” said The Tide Director Don Shenk . “Over 2,000 of the 2,295 people groups in India are still considered unreached with the Gospel. Multiple religions are practiced throughout India, but Hinduism is the largest religion there, and only about 2 percent of the population professes to be Christians. That means there are still over 1.2 billion people in India who don’t yet know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior! And the fact that those who do believe in Christ are experiencing persecution gives us all the more ...