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In the early church when persecution arose, the church flourished and spread. Stephen’s death in Acts caused a great persecution and scattering the church resulting in Christianity spreading from a handful of people to the entire Roman empire and beyond within the first three centuries. Centuries later Communist China began with three million Christians in…

A devastating 7.8 level earthquake hit South Asia last weekend, killing thousands and destroying homes and possessions across Nepal and Northern India. At the last count 5,000 have died in Nepal and 80 in India. But beyond the initial devastation and ruin from the earthquake, the people of Nepal are only beginning to face other…

The Apostle John’s blessing: “I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well” (3 John 1:2) is such an intrinsic vision of holistic and radical development that the gospel brings into one’s life. It is with this same prayer and…

Despite Prime Minister Modi’s promises that he would “ensure that there is complete freedom of faith and that everyone has the undeniable right to retain or adopt the religion of his or her choice without coercion or undue influence,” persecution of Christians remains a problem and in some regions the violence has increased. Hindu radicals…

Mani was a radical Hindu whose life seemed to have everything together. But then Mani’s business started failing. He couldn’t make enough money to support his wife and two children. Mani spiraled into depression because of his failure and started losing confidence in his Hindu faith. The local pastor came along to Mani’s family to…

Did you know that rural India accounts for 11 percent of the world’s population without access to clean water? That doesn’t sound like a lot until you realize exactly how many people that affects – 88 million. The World Bank estimates that 21 percent of communicable diseases are water-related and 1.3 million children die under…

In India, 356 million people are illiterate. Furthermore, 52 percent of those who are fortunate enough to be literate only have a primary level education. There are still some rural villages that do not have a single literate individual. Illiteracy has a huge impact on society both socially and economically. People who cannot read or…

Although India is the world’s largest democracy with a fast developing economy, only a small portion of the population benefits from the existing systems and structures. Young men and women must be educated and trained in skills that equip them for employment, but the labor market is not accessible to them, causing a widening divide…

“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.” Benjamin Franklin Many women in South Asia, like Sivarudhri, live in extreme poverty,…

The World Watch Monitor, which reports on persecution of Christians around the world, ranked India at number 21 on the list of countries where Christians face the most persecution in 2015, up from number 28 in 2014. The main reasoning for this ranking is the rise of religious nationalism since the induction of the new…