Christians were charged with breaking newly enforced law that targets religious conversions


New York: Shocking revelations have been surfaced as rising attacks on Christians are part of broader shift in India, in which minorities feel less safe, reported by the American newspaper ‘New York Times’.
The Christians were charged with breaking a newly enforced law that targets religious conversions, one that mirrors at least a dozen other measures across the country that have prompted a surge in mob violence against Indian Christians.
The report stated that anti-Christian vigilantes are sweeping through villages, storming churches, burning Christian literature, attacking schools and assaulting worshipers. In many cases, the police and members of India’s governing party are helping them, government documents and dozens of interviews revealed. In church after church, the very act of worship has become dangerous despite constitutional protections for freedom of religion.
“To many Hindu extremists, the attacks are justified — a means of preventing religious conversions. To them, the possibility that some Indians, even a relatively small number, would reject Hinduism for Christianity is a threat to their dream of turning India into a pure Hindu nation. Many Christians have become so frightened that they try to pass as Hindu to protect themselves,” the report mentioned.
The report further revealed that the pressure is greatest in central and northern India, where the governing party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is firmly in control, and where evangelical Christian groups are making inroads among lower-caste Hindus, albeit quietly. Pastors hold clandestine ceremonies at night. They conduct secret baptisms. They pass out audio Bibles that look like little transistor radios so that illiterate farmers can surreptitiously listen to the scripture as they plow their fields.
PM Shehbaz arrives in Qatar for Arab-Islamic Summit
- 14 hours ago

Two new polio cases confirmed in KP
- 14 hours ago
Met office predicts hot, dry weather in most parts of country
- 14 hours ago
Trump says TikTok deal near as US, China agree on negotiated solution
- 11 hours ago

Sit or play? Why Jordan Love's path to Packers starter remains unique in the NFL
- 2 hours ago
Ayesha Gul becomes first female SSP in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's history
- 12 hours ago
.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Eleven bodies recovered from floodwaters in Alipur
- 15 hours ago

Pakistan Business Forum urges govt to take concrete steps for agriculture sector
- 15 hours ago
Artists call for ‘Free Palestine’ at Emmy Awards in Los Angeles
- 14 hours ago

A self-driving car traffic jam is coming for US cities
- an hour ago
Govt keeps petrol price unchanged, increases HSD by Rs2.78
- 6 hours ago

Karachi installs 891 cameras under phase one of safe city project
- 10 hours ago