India State Government Plans to Demolish Hundreds of ‘Unauthorized’ Church Structures

7/14/2025  (ICC)

Within six months, the government of Maharashtra in India is planning to investigate and demolish hundreds of churches that it claims are unauthorized structures, most of which are in tribal regions. The state is also planning to enact a stringent anti-conversion law. The state of Maharashtra is ruled by the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which also holds power at the federal level. If the anti-conversion law is passed, Maharashtra will become the 13th Indian state with such a law in place. Legislators allege that tribal peoples were being converted to Christianity through illegal churches built using foreign funding for the promotion of the religion. The legislators also demanded a mechanism in the law to prohibit tribal people who become Christians from receiving welfare benefits available for their caste.

Please pray…

• Pray for the churches as they are scrutinized and threatened with demolition, that the Lord would give the Christians His peace and wisdom. 

• Pray that the church structures are not demolished and that the Lord protects the Christians from harm. 

• Pray also that they continue to show the love of Christ.