Churches under attack: Uttar Pradesh reports most cases of anti-Christian violence across India
3 years, 1 month ago

Churches under attack: Uttar Pradesh reports most cases of anti-Christian violence across India

The Hindu  

I t is a template that was crafted back in 2015, when the first instance of lynching was reported from Dadri in western Uttar Pradesh; it has now been expanded to include minority Christians. Before the police arrived, the mob destroyed CCTV cameras, vandalised religious symbols and chanted slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Har Har Mahadev’ inside the church premises. In another instance in Mau, on October 12, a Hindutva mob thrashed two nuns, accusing them of being engaged in conversion activities, and dragged them to the police station. Then a mob came and attacked the driver, dragged him out, and forced us to walk to the police station.” What happened in Roorkee and Mau was a continuation of a series of assaults and unsubstantiated allegations of conversion that began on January 3 when right-wing extremists attacked a group of about 20 Christians who had gathered in Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh. In Prayagraj a few days later, where Pastor Jitendra Varma was leading a prayer service, a mob arrived with a police constable and started abusing the worshippers.

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Azamgarh Police arrests one for luring Hindus and converting them to Christianity
1 year, 2 months ago

Azamgarh Police arrests one for luring Hindus and converting them to Christianity

Op India  

On Sunday, October 1, the Uttar Pradesh Police arrested one of the persons who attempted to convert the religion of Hindus to Christianity in the Sathiaon block of Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh. According to the Bhaskar report, the incident came to light after the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal members came to know about the event and caught …

Mob vandalises Delhi church during Sunday mass and beats up Christians
1 year, 4 months ago

Mob vandalises Delhi church during Sunday mass and beats up Christians

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A group of about 20 …

United Christian Forum slams government denial of rising attacks on Christians in India
1 year, 5 months ago

United Christian Forum slams government denial of rising attacks on Christians in India

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 12, 2023 12:49 IST - 4 MINS READ The United Christian Forum, an organisation that compiles data on atrocities against Christians in India, has expressed its discontent with the Centre’s response to a crucial petition in the Supreme Court. The report stated, “This year we have just completed half a year of 190 days and we have …

Manipur stir reveals BJP’s two-faced approach to Christians: Govindan
1 year, 7 months ago

Manipur stir reveals BJP’s two-faced approach to Christians: Govindan

The Hindu  

Communist Party of India State secretary M.V. Govindan said the civil unrest in Manipur exposed the Janus-faced nature of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s approach to Christians, other minorities, and tribes in the country. Nevertheless, Sangh Parivar’s ‘pogrom’ against Christians in Manipur proved that the BJP’s made-for-television minority outreach in Kerala could not camouflage the party’s ‘fascist spots’. Mr. Govindan said …

Politics of ruin: Why Modi wants to demolish India’s mosques
1 year, 8 months ago

Politics of ruin: Why Modi wants to demolish India’s mosques

Al Jazeera  

A historic 16th-century mosque, Shahi Masjid, in Prayagraj city in India’s Uttar Pradesh state was demolished by bulldozers on January 9 under a road-widening project. Another mosque, one of the largest and oldest in India, Shamsi Jama Masjid, an 800-year-old national heritage site in Budaun, Uttar Pradesh, became a matter of dispute last year when a court case was filed …

Get data on attacks on Christians in two weeks, Supreme Court tells government
1 year, 8 months ago

Get data on attacks on Christians in two weeks, Supreme Court tells government

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on March 29 gave the Home Ministry exactly two weeks to collate data on action taken by at least eight States regarding the registration of FIRs, status of investigation, arrests and charge sheets filed in incidents petitioners allege as attacks targeting Christian community and institutions. Mr. Gonsalves said the apex court had ordered the appointment of nodal …

Christians demand national-level panel to redress ‘targeted’ violence
1 year, 10 months ago

Christians demand national-level panel to redress ‘targeted’ violence

The Hindu  

Members of the Christian community in the national capital on February 19, staged a protest here to draw the government, Judiciary and civil society’s attention to the “rising incidents of crime against the community”. The community will also be sending a memorandum to President Droupadi Murmu, asking for a National Redressal Commission headed by a retired Supreme Court judge to …

Escalating attacks against Christian Adivasis in Chhattisgarh
1 year, 11 months ago

Escalating attacks against Christian Adivasis in Chhattisgarh

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 12, 2023 10:30 IST Chhattisgarh has seen a surge in violence against Christians of late. Its report states: “From December 9, 2022, until December 18, 2022, there were a series of attacks in about 18 villages in Narayanpur and 15 villages in Kondagaon, displacing about 1,000 Christian Adivasis from their own villages.” It stated that at least …

Narayanpur violence | 11 arrested so far, including two local BJP leaders
1 year, 11 months ago

Narayanpur violence | 11 arrested so far, including two local BJP leaders

The Hindu  

Chhattisgarh Police have arrested at least 11 persons — including the current and former district presidents of the BJP — in connection with separate, violent incidents over purported religious conversions in Narayanpur earlier this week. Mr. Salam assumed charge as the BJP district president in October and since then, the duo have led several campaigns against Christian missionaries in villages …

Church vandalism in Chhattisgarh | VHP condemns conversion, demands strict laws
1 year, 11 months ago

Church vandalism in Chhattisgarh | VHP condemns conversion, demands strict laws

The Hindu  

Days after some alleged tribal groups vandalised a church in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Wednesday said that it believed efforts to stop illegal conversions should be made within the ambit of the constitution and law. Milind Parande, VHP’s general secretary, said that tension was escalating in the country due to illegal conversions and “healing meetings organised by …

SP injured, church vandalised as violence over religious conversion hits Narayanpur again
1 year, 11 months ago

SP injured, church vandalised as violence over religious conversion hits Narayanpur again

The Hindu  

Nearly half a dozen policemen, including a District Superintendent of Police, were injured and a church vandalised after a “protest meeting over purported religious conversions” called by tribal groups turned violent in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Monday. Narayanpur Collector Ajeet Vasant told The Hindu that the meeting was called by the tribal groups to raise “their grievances regarding religious conversions …

1,000 Christians subjected to violence in Chhattisgarh, some forcibly converted to Hinduism: Civil rights groups
1 year, 11 months ago

1,000 Christians subjected to violence in Chhattisgarh, some forcibly converted to Hinduism: Civil rights groups

The Hindu  

Some civil rights groups have claimed that about 1,000 Christian tribals in Chhattisgarh were subjected to violence over their religion and some of them were forcibly converted to Hinduism. Irfan Engineer, director of the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism who led the fact-finding committee, claimed that there is an "organised campaign to forcibly convert Christian Adivasis to Hindu …

Kanpur violence: Hindus singled out and attacked, CM Yogi orders police to invoke Gangster Act against rioters
2 years, 6 months ago

Kanpur violence: Hindus singled out and attacked, CM Yogi orders police to invoke Gangster Act against rioters

Op India  

In the violence that erupted in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district on May 3, Friday, Islamists had singled out the Hindus by their names and assaulted them, reports Zee News. The violence had erupted over a call by Islamists to shut down the shops in the area in protest against BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for allegedly committing ‘blasphemy’ against Prophet Muhammad …

India's ruling party says crime is down. Muslims say they've never felt less safe
2 years, 9 months ago

India's ruling party says crime is down. Muslims say they've never felt less safe

NPR  

India's ruling party says crime is down. Enlarge this image toggle caption Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images Extrajudicial encounters have helped distort India's crime statistics Uttar Pradesh police say aggressive policing has lowered crime. Between March 2017, when Adityanath took office, and August 2021, Uttar Pradesh police say they shot and injured at least 3,302 …

Christians on edge in India’s Karnataka ruled by Modi’s BJP
2 years, 11 months ago

Christians on edge in India’s Karnataka ruled by Modi’s BJP

Al Jazeera  

At least 42 attacks on Christians and their places of worship recorded this year in southern state as it mulls a controversial anti-conversion law. “There is immense fear among the Christians,” the pastor told Al Jazeera, referring to a spate of recent attacks against the community and their places of worship across Karnataka, a state governed by Prime Minister Narendra …

Aakar Patel | New law likely to spell trouble for Christians in Karnakata
3 years ago

Aakar Patel | New law likely to spell trouble for Christians in Karnakata

Deccan Chronicle  

Last week the People’s Union for Civil Liberties published a report on the concerted attacks against Karnataka’s Christian community and their places of worship. The BJP government in Karnataka is also proposing to survey the state’s churches, to no apparent end other than monitoring Christians, their religious activity and their places of worship. It is important that civil society document …

39 attacks on Christians in Karnataka this year: PUCL report
3 years ago

39 attacks on Christians in Karnataka this year: PUCL report

The Hindu  

Documenting 39 instances of attacks on members of the Christian community this year, a report by People’s Union of Civil Liberties on ‘Hate crimes on Christians in Karnataka, 2021’ has alleged that all recent attacks on members of the community were perpetrated by Hindutva organisations. “Almost in every instance of mob violence studied in this report, it can be observed …

MP School Attack: Ransacking Churches & 'Conversion Allegations' a Pattern Now
3 years ago

MP School Attack: Ransacking Churches & 'Conversion Allegations' a Pattern Now

The Quint  

Although it's been a week since the actual incident happened, why we are talking about it now is because unfortunately this kind of an attack against the Christian minority is not a one-off event. It is becoming a grotesque pattern with churches being frequently ransacked across the country and prayer meetings being disrupted by Hindutva mobs on mere suspicions of …

Why India is witnessing spike in attacks on Christians, churches
3 years ago

Why India is witnessing spike in attacks on Christians, churches

Al Jazeera  

Rights groups record more than 300 attacks on Christians and their religious places in the first nine months of this year. However, in a speech about two weeks earlier, Mohan Bhagwat, head of the far-right Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological mentor of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, warned Hindus about religious conversions and alleged “demographic changes” in India’s northeastern states, which …

‘Shown their place’: Muslim livelihoods under attack in India
3 years, 2 months ago

‘Shown their place’: Muslim livelihoods under attack in India

Al Jazeera  

Experts say rising attacks on Muslim vendors and businesses by Hindu supremacist groups point to a worrying trend. If these frequent incidents of attacks on Muslim livelihoods are seen “in consonance with some policy measures which the BJP government has taken in different states in the last few years, then it is a worrying trend indeed,” Abdul Waheed, professor of …

How states are building a legal wall against religious conversions
3 years, 11 months ago

How states are building a legal wall against religious conversions

India Today  

On December 26, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Madhya Pradesh cabinet approved the Dharma Swatantrya Bill, 2020, aimed at curbing forced or deceitful religious conversions in the state. While both states have made forceful conversions and marriages cognizable and non-bailable offences, the Madhya Pradesh law spares a person converting on his own free will from giving advance notice to the district …

Policing faith: The Hindu Editorial on ‘love jihad’ laws seeking to prohibit ‘unlawful’ religious conversions
4 years ago

Policing faith: The Hindu Editorial on ‘love jihad’ laws seeking to prohibit ‘unlawful’ religious conversions

The Hindu  

The proposed Uttar Pradesh ordinance seeking to prohibit “unlawful” religious conversions represents a regressive march towards unacceptable medievalism and a reprehensible zeal to police the private lives and beliefs of citizens. However, apparently inspired by similar legislation in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, it has sought to include “alluring into marriage” as an additional ground for declaring an instance of religious …

Christians as target during the lockdown
4 years, 4 months ago

Christians as target during the lockdown

The Hindu  

A t least two reports by Christian organisations in India say that life has been precarious for the members of the minority community during the lockdowns imposed because of COVID. The report states: “A lynching, community ostracisation, concerted attempts to stop worship and gospel-sharing mark the 135 cases registered by the EFI in the first half of 2020.” Says Vijayesh …

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