17th February 2021 Dear Members and Friends of Evangelical Fellowship of India, The world and our nation are in much turmoil. We witness moral and spiritual degeneration around us. Justice is mocked at the behest of the powerful and the divide of inequality is getting larger by the day. The Church unfortunately has not remained …
An initiative of the Religious Liberty Commission of EFI 1 – 15 February 2021 Religious Liberty Commission documented 11 incidents of hate and targeted violence against Christians in India in the first half of February 2021. Madhya Pradesh once again led the tally with 4 incidents. According to a report by national media “in a …
1 – 15 January 2021 On 3 January in Vikas Colony, Shahjahanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, four Christians and a pastor were charged on an allegation of engaging in religious conversion activities. Religious extremists accused Pastor David, Rajat, Jagat, Ajay, and Shirish Gupta of luring people into Christianity – a claim that the Christians vehemently denied. …
The Corona-19 virus pandemic impacted India as much as it did the world, leaving, till December end 2020, more than 10.5 million Indian hospitalised, and 151,000 dead. The Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, in a national telecast announced a nation-wide total lockdown on March 24. With all industrial, business and tertiary economic activity at a …
Covid has near crushed the world this year. The virus has killed hundreds of thousands and maimed many among those who recovered after gasping for breath in intensive care units of hard-pressed hospitals. The fear of infection, the uncertainty, and largely ignorance of the malaise, and the unpreparedness of governments has aggravated the crisis. The …