{"id":13829,"date":"2025-05-22T08:39:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13829"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:39:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:39:45","slug":"south-asia-are-high-caste-hindus-resistant-to-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13829","title":{"rendered":"South Asia: Are High-Caste Hindus Resistant to the Gospel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Beyond, May 15, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanjay and his brother recently traveled to Haryana to meet with some key leaders, gathering at Laksha\u2019s home. Laksha, who is from a high caste, has been an active disciple-maker within the movement for about six years. She and her team are witnessing remarkable growth, particularly among high caste individuals and women. In her district, there are around 36 house churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, Laksha shared that it\u2019s easy to assume that people from high castes are proud and resistant to the gospel. However, when she encounters those who have become disciples of Jesus, she sees how deeply God has transformed their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beyond.org\/2025\/05\/15\/from-fear-to-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also an article asking, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/globalchristianrelief.org\/christian-persecution\/stories\/how-many-muslims-convert-to-christianity-each-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How many Muslims convert to Christianity each year?<\/a>\u201d (Global Christian Relief).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Beyond, May 15, 2025 Sanjay and his brother recently traveled to Haryana to meet with some key leaders, gathering at Laksha\u2019s home. Laksha, who is from a high caste, has been an active disciple-maker within the movement for about six years. She and her team are witnessing remarkable growth, particularly among high caste individuals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13829\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">South Asia: Are High-Caste Hindus Resistant to the Gospel?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13830,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13829\/revisions\/13830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}