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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 ...
Christian buildings were damaged across Mangalore taluk, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Chikkamagaluru districts. A few Christian institutions were later attacked in Bangalore district and Kasaragod district. Christians staged counter-protests to the violence. One particularly large one was staged by the Catholics of Karkala deanery on 15 ...
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]
Authorities detain 21 people and impose internet shutdowns and restrictions on movement
The 2021 anti-Christian violence in Karnataka refers to the series violence against Christians by right wing Hindutva groups in the Indian state of Karnataka in 2021. The attacks increased after September 2021 when leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) declared of an " anti-conversion bill " in the state to check religious conversions .
Religious intolerance is on the rise as modern technologies merge with age-old authoritarian policies of oppression to increasingly target Christians across the globe in a yearslong concerning trend.
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]
Three Christian missionaries from Missions in Haiti were shot and killed in an ambush by a gang in Haiti, the Oklahoma-based group said on Friday. The missionaries were taking shelter in a house ...