Thursday, June 04, 2026

Punjab.


Asia

‘Sacrilege law’ in Punjab, India further threatens Christians.

Thanks to misuse of a law against “outraging religious feelings,” a Christian pastor in Punjab state, India still cannot return home. His church is shut. He survives on daily physical labor, and some months there is not enough money to feed his family or pay his children’s school fees. A second pastor who was arrested alongside him lives the same way, moving from place to place, doing what he can find and living constantly in fear. CD.

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