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According to the All India Christian Council, there was an attack on Christians recorded every 40 hours in India in 2016. [24] In a report by the Indian organization Persecution Relief, the crimes against Christians increased by 60% from 2016 to 2019. There were 330 incidents in 2016, 440 incidents in 2017, 477 in 2018 and 527 incidents of hate ...
Unofficial reports placed the number of those killed to more than 500. [7] Many Christian families were burnt alive. [8] Thousands of Christians were forced to convert to Hinduism under threat of violence. [9] [3] [1] Many Hindu families were also assaulted in some places because they supported the Indian National Congress (INC) party. [8]
On 29 August, many groups across India participated in a "prayer for peace and communal harmony" in response to ongoing anti-Christian violence in Orissa. St Aloysius College and around 2000 Christian schools in Karnataka went on strike on 29 August, protesting against the attacks in Orissa.
The incident happened during anti-Christian violence that targeted Christian Churches, Institutions and homes where more than 395 churches and 5600 Christians' houses were burned, 39-100 Christians killed, and nearly 60,000 left homeless by groups led by the Hindu nationalist Sangh Parivar groups. [1] [2] [3]
The village head also banned the Christians to have their livestock graze with the livestock of others. [42] On 14 November, a prayer hall in Lahancharia was partly burned. [29] On 4 December, more than 35,000 Christians rallied in the streets of Ahmedabad protesting against the attacks on the Christians in Gujarat and other parts of the ...
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The organisation said attacks against Christians increased "significantly" since the "Hindu Nationalist" BJP came to power. [24] Then-Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee, a leader of BJP, condemned the "ghastly attack" and called for swift action to catch the killers. [25] He also ordered to stop all illegal missionaries in Orissa.
The revolt started, among the Indian sepoys of British East India Company, when the British introduced new rifle cartridges, rumoured to be greased with pig and cow fat—an abhorrent concept to Muslim and Hindu soldiers, respectively, for religious reasons. 150,000 Indians and 6,000 Britons were killed during the 1857 rebellion.