Life gets busy. In the midst of running around, I keep hearing the same painful reports from India — “Christians beaten in this village,” “another Christian attacked in that village.” I have to confess: I’ve grown numb. It feels like part of the daily routine now. Living in the West, surrounded by comfort, the pain often feels distant.
But then there are moments… moments when the news is so heartbreaking, we can’t look away. Tears flow again. Our cold hearts break, and we reconnect with God.
One such incident happened on April 26, 2025, in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh. A tribal Christian woman named Herbem Hidma lost her 2-year-old son. Grieving and broken, she buried him on her own land. But the next day, tribal leaders and a mob came, dug up the child’s grave, and forced the mother to hold her child’s body again, claiming the land would be “defiled” by the burial of a Christian.
I cannot begin to imagine the pain this mother endured.
Above is a picture of the desecrated grave. The atrocities in Chhattisgarh continue. I wish I could say this was an isolated case — but it’s not. Christians are being beaten simply for their faith. Each day brings a new report, a new cry for help.
Let me share just a few more incidents:
- May 3, 2025 — In Nimmalguda village, Sukma district, several Christians were brutally attacked simply for believing in Christ.
- May 7, 2025 — In Duragaon, Bastar, a Christian husband and wife were savagely beaten for their faith. They were hospitalized with serious injuries.
In a recent video, the Director of the Chhattisgarh Christian Forum revealed that over the past two years, 80 acres of Christian-owned land have been illegally seized. Many Christians are now forbidden from entering their own land. Shockingly, instead of protecting the victims, local police are often protecting the perpetrators.
While India proudly celebrates its strength and military victories — with the world watching — there’s another side of the story. In remote regions, superstition, illiteracy, casteism, and religious extremism are tearing communities apart.
Christians who simply want to show God’s love through education, service, and compassion are being accused of forced conversions. The government remains silent. Or worse, it enables the injustice.
There are Christian voices crying out for help. They need our prayers, our support, our solidarity.
The Gospel must be preached.
The incident where Indian tribal leaders exhumed a Christian child’s grave for “defiling the land” is deeply disturbing and highlights ongoing religious intolerance. Such actions violate human dignity and call for urgent legal and societal response.
It is absolutely heart-wrenching that they forced Herbem Hidma to hold her son again after digging him up. I can’t imagine that kind of cruelty happening in Chhattisgarh.
Having seen teams make confident calls from incomplete reports, I’m uneasy about reducing this tragedy to a scorecard before the details are independently checked, but our team would handle the sequence like a changing-trump hand: make an exact prediction, then adjust together as new facts emerge. If the April 26 account is confirmed, our team should treat the mother’s protection as the first priority after tribal leaders made her hold her child’s body again; what safeguards were actually offered to her?