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Tennessee Missionary allegedly detained, deported from India
Walker’s case is allegedly not an isolated one and other American missionaries have faced restrictions or harassment in India.
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Lalit K Jha (5WH) - Wed, 12, Nov 2025
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Dr Cynthia Walker / Lalit K Jha/ New India Abroad
An independent journalist based in Washington, D.C., has alleged that a Tennessee pastor’s wife was detained for hours at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport last month and forced to return to the United States, in what she described as part of an alleged growing pattern of “Christian persecution” in India.
Corinne Clifford, an independent journalist accredited to the White House, said she received a distress call on Oct. 18 from her pastor in Nashville, who informed her that his wife, Dr Cynthia Walker, had been detained at the airport in Bengaluru, India, the previous day.“She was detained in the airport in Bangalore, India, for over eight hours because she’s a Christian missionary,” Clifford said in an interview.
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