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India: Eight Christians acquitted of kidnapping and forced conversion

February 21, 2020 India Anti-conversion law, Children, India, Madhya Pradesh

The eight Christians were arrested while travelling with the children on a train. (Photo: Getty Images)

...India’s religious minorities is at tipping point’ – report Nine-year-old Indian girl from convert family reported raped, then murdered India: 16 more Christians detained under Jharkhand’s ‘anti-conversion law’ India: 15...

‘Situation for India’s religious minorities is at tipping point’ – report

February 12, 2019 India Anti-conversion law, BJP, Chhattisgarh, Hindutva, India, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Minorities, Narendra Modi, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh

The report shows that since Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014, the number of violent acts against India's religious minorities have increased (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...the Indian states of Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, followed by Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand. The report identifies four “drivers” of persecution: “Hindutva ideology, Anti-conversion laws, the misuse of...

India: Life sentence for top politician gives hope for justice for Kandhamal Christians

December 21, 2018 India Anti-conversion law, Christmas, India, Jharkhand, Kandhamal, Madhya Pradesh, Minorities, Odisha, Tamil Nadu

...trying to convert people to Christianity. ADF is also challenging India’s anti-conversion laws and the High Court of Jharkhand has agreed to hear their case which, if successful, could set...

Record anti-Christian violence in India’s most populous state

October 31, 2018 India BJP, Catholics, Chennai, Hindu nationalism, Jharkhand, Manipur, Narendra Modi, Protestants, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh

...now afraid to leave the house. Cross removed in Jharkhand In the village of Garnatanga, near Ranchi, a cross was removed from a Protestant church building by the pro-Hindu Sarna...

Nine-year-old Indian girl from convert family reported raped, then murdered

August 8, 2018 India Andhra Pradesh, Anti-conversion law, Chhattisgarh, Children, Converts, Gujarat, Gurdaspur, Himachal Pradesh, Hindu nationalism, India, Jharkhand, Ludhiana, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Rape, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Women

...such laws are: Uttarakhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Jharkhand. When Jharkhand became the sixth Indian state to pass the legislation in August last year, church leaders...

India’s Christians treated like terrorists, Catholic bishops say

July 31, 2018 India Catholics, Hindu nationalism, India, Jharkhand

...from the north-eastern state of Jharkhand met with the state governor, Draupadi Murmu, in a bid to stop what they called “government harassment”. “We are now treated as terrorists and...

Missionaries of Charity complain of ‘baseless innuendos’ as government orders probe

July 16, 2018 India BJP, Hindu nationalism, India, Jharkhand, West Bengal

Roman Catholic nuns of the Missionaries of Charity order pray at the tomb of Mother Teresa at a service to commemorate the 20th death anniversary of Mother Teresa at the Missionaries of Charity house in Kolkata on September 5, 2017.

...trafficking. The two, Sister Concelia and Anima Indwar, worked at a home run by the order in Ranchi in eastern Jharkhand state. They were arrested following a complaint to police...

‘Total impunity’ in India, as Muslims and Christians ‘bear brunt of ruling ideology’

July 13, 2018 India Anti-conversion law, Hindu Munnani, Hindu nationalism, Hindu Yuva Vahini, India, Jharkhand, Minorities, Pentecostals, Rape, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh

...Monitor reported the detention of 16 more Christians in Jharkhand state, which became the seventh state to pass a so-called “anti-conversion law” last year. As World Watch Monitor has reported,...

India: 16 more Christians detained under Jharkhand’s ‘anti-conversion law’

July 10, 2018 India Anti-conversion law, BJP, Caste, Dalits, Hindu nationalism, India, Jharkhand, Missionaries, Proselytism, Religious freedom, RSS

A number of the Christians who were arrested by police, after they held a prayer service at the house of a Christian family in Phulpahari, India. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

A group of 16 Indian tribal Christians who visited another tribal family in the eastern state of Jharkhand to talk to them about Christianity are in police custody after the...

India: Priest’s arrest an attempt to ‘malign’ Church

July 3, 2018 India Catholics, India, Jharkhand, Rape, Women

Indian National Congress party activists hold placards and shout slogans during a protest against the abduction and gang-rape of five women in Jharkhand's Khunti district on 23 June 2018. (Photo: -/AFP/Getty Images)

Embed from Getty Images Indian National Congress party activists hold placards and shout slogans during a protest against the abduction and gang rape of five women in Jharkhand’s Khunti district...

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