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In this Tuesday, May 14, 2019 file photo, supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) walk with a giant party flag during an election campaign rally in Kolkata, India. (Credit: Bikas Das/AP.)
A Catholic priest in India has called the arrest of nine Christians for “attempted conversion” a “travesty of justice.”
MUMBAI, India – A Catholic priest in India has called the arrest of nine Christians for “attempted conversion” a “travesty of justice.”
The Christians were arrested on Jan. 27 in the city of Indore, a day after a mob of Hindu militants invaded a Pentecostal prayer meeting taking place at the Satprakashan Sanchar Kendra (Center for the Light of Truth), a media center owned by the Society of the Divine Word, a Catholic religious order that lets other Christian groups use the premises.
Nine Christians Arrested in India for Alleged ‘Forced Conversions’
6 Feb 2021
Police arrested nine Christians in central India based on complaints of forced conversions from a Hindu nationalist group, AsiaNews reported Friday.
A mob from the Bajrang Da, the youth wing of the Hindu nationalist Vishva Hindu Parishad organization (VHP), stormed a Pentecostal prayer meeting held at a center run by a Catholic non-profit group called the Sat Prakashan Sanchar Kendra on January 26.
Present at the prayer meeting was a 25-year-old Hindu woman who claimed her parents had brought her to the service in an effort to convert her to Christianity.
Jan 7, 2021 contributor
An artisan carries clay-face sculptures of a Hindu goddess in Kolkata, India, Oct. 29, 2018. (Credit: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters via CNS.)
One bishop in India is warning that “democracy is in danger, and the principles of secularism at risk” after the latest anti-Christian incident in the Hindu-majority nations.
MUMBAI, India – One bishop in India is warning that “democracy is in danger, and the principles of secularism at risk” after the latest anti-Christian incident in the Hindu-majority nations.
Bishop Gerald J. Mathias of Lucknow spoke to
Crux after a Christian pastor and a group of worshippers were attacked in Shahjahanpur, located in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state.