Source: Mission Network News, May 27, 2019<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist group, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), won [last month\u2019s national election] by a landslide\u2014guaranteeing five more years of power.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy friends in the business community [find] it to be a good thing because they see it as a political stability\u2026 they don\u2019t expect any major changes. But, I\u2019ll tell you from the Christian community, it is really not a good thing,\u201d [says Bible for the World\u2019s John Pudaite].<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have seen the escalation of persecution\u2026 during the last five years that this current party has led the government. Christians across the country are bracing themselves for another five years of the same, and many are expecting it to get worse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last fall, Hindu nationalists rallied around the goal of making India a \u201cHindu Rashtra\u201d (Hindu nation) by 2024. Modi and the BJP support the concept, making no secret of their \u201cHindu first\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Full story<\/a> explores what Hindu nationalism means for Christians and suggests ways to pray for India.<\/p>\n \u00bb Another article from MNN reports that Indonesia\u2019s national election has exposed a rift<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Network News, May 27, 2019 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist group, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), won [last month\u2019s national election] by a landslide\u2014guaranteeing five more years of power. \u201cMy friends in the business community [find] it to be a good thing because they see it as a political stability\u2026 … Continue reading INDIA: Why Modi\u2019s Second Term Means Trouble for Christians<\/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-8574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","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=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8575,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions\/8575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}