Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Mission Network News - Asia
Episode: Christians wary of upcoming elections in India
Description: India (MNN) — The Voice of the Martyrs USA reclassifies India amid escalating religious tensions.
“We have changed India’s status from ‘hostile area’ to ‘restricted nation’ for the first time in 20+ years that we have been putting out our global prayer map,” VOM USA’s Todd Nettleton says.
“This is particularly significant as we approach national elections in April and May.”
Narendra Modi addressing crowd in 2014.(Image taken from Narendra Modi’s personal feed on Flickr)
Typically, VOM classifies “countries where Christians are persecuted as either hostile areas or restricted nations,” Nettleton explai...