This averages to 27 incidents of violence per month. A young woman in the Khunti district of Jharkhand has become the fifth victim in a string of Christians killed in India because of their faith.
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A young woman in the Khunti district of Jharkhand has become the fifth victim in a string of Christians killed in India because of their faith. In the past the BJP supported extremist groups that attacked Christians in incidents such as the 2007-2008 riots where Hindu militants torched houses and churches killing 91 Christians and wounding 18000 others. 09202019 India International Christian Concern A Christian advocacy group in India reports that they have documented over 200 incidents of anti-Christian violence in just the first eight months of 2019.
While warmly welcoming the PM The NAAC expressed deep concern about the persecution of Christians in India by extremist meaning Hindu groups mentioning as examples the priest missionaries and church workers who have been murdered the nuns raped and the potential enacting of conversion laws which would make genuine conversions illegal. Including the death under mysterious circumstances of a Christian woman in Chhattisgarh state the last week of May Devis death is the fifth religiously motivated killing of a Christian in India in two months. Uttar Pradesh remained the most hostile state against Christians in India noted.
The acts of violence include arson of churches conversion of Christians by force physical violence sexual assaults murders rapes and destruction of Christian schools colleges and cemeteries. According to the Evangelical Fellowship of India EFI 86 of the 366 violent attacks on Indian Christians recorded in 2019 took place in Uttar Pradesh. On July 10 in Maharashtra state Maoists killed pastor Munshi Devu Tado in.
International Christian Concern In just over a month four Christians including a woman a teenager and a pastor were killed in India because of their faith. The group also predicted that in India intolerance toward Christians and other religious minorities will continue to grow during 2021 largely due to growing Hindu nationalism. MUMBAI India A Christian teenager in India was murdered after being accused of practicing witchcraft.
Just one month earlier on June 24 another Christian 27-year-old Ramji Munda was killed outside a village in the Khunti district. Indias Christians are under attack. Christians are killed inhumanely and no one is there to protect the christians of the country.
15-year-old Samaru Madkami a member of Indias marginalized Tribal community lived in. Six of those cases resulted in murder. RI noted that incidents targeting Indian Christians have risen steeply since 2014 when Narendra Modi of.
Violence against Christians has been seen by Human Rights Watch as an tactic used by the Sangh Parivar origanisations to encourage and exploit communal violence to meet their political ends. The woman 25-year-old Suman Munda was found dead on July 19 in a deserted place near her home according to Vatican News. On 24 June another Christian Ramji Munda 27 was killed on the outskirts of his village in Khunti district in Jharkhand Eastern India.
Every week 182 churches or Christian buildings are attacked. These killings which took place in Chhattisgarh Jharkhand Odisha and Maharashtra may indicate a deadly new trend in the persecution and violence facing Indias Christian community. 60000 Christians were left homeless.
According to the Evangelical Fellowship of India a total of 77 incidents were documented against Christians between January and February. Lamenting the situation Bishop Binay Kandulna of Khunti said that it is a matter of serious concern because the state witnessed a Christian man killed. Anti-Christian violence in India is religiously-motivated violence against Christians in India.
Over 200 Incidents of Anti-Christian Violence Reported in India in 2019. Unfortunately 2020 has seen little. The number of violent attacks on Christians and churches in India increased over the summer months.
Below World Watch Monitor lists 18 incidents from July August and the first week of September. They were killed mercilessly by the Hindu terrorists and extre. Vedantham showing his own perspective on Christianity was the first to propose in 1987 that Thomas of Cana was confused with the 1st-century apostle Thomas by Indias Syrian Christians sometime after his death becoming their Apostle Thomas in India.
Two women were raped and killed for their faith and another two women and a 10-year-old girl were raped for refusing to renounce Christianity. And every month 309 Christians are imprisoned unjustly.