Posted on 08/19/2025 12:37:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Christians are increasingly being persecuted across India, often under the guise of preventing them from forcing or inducing Hindus to convert, despite the country’s constitutional guarantee of religious freedom, says a new report from the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI).
According to the report:
Between January and July 2025, the Evangelical Fellowship of India’s Religious Liberty Commission documented 334 incidents of systematic targeting against Christian communities across India, encompassing arrests, physical violence, threats, disruption of worship services, and denial of basic rights including burial. This sustained pattern of persecution reflects an alarming consistency, with incidents occurring every month and affecting Christian communities across 22 states and union territories.
Two-thirds of the incidents involved either threats and harassment or false accusations and arrests, “indicating that intimidation and misuse of legal processes are the primary tactics employed against Christian communities.”
Nonconvertible Bonds
That “misuse of legal processes” is enabled by anti-conversion laws in 12 of India’s 28 states. These laws protect people from being forced to convert to another religion, but they also prohibit enticing others to convert by non-coercive means such as “allurement.” As a result, The Stream’s Jason Scott Jones wrote,
You can choose a different gender as an Indian, but you and your posterity are condemned to be forever fossilized in the religion of your ancestors. Since India’s Hindu supremacist government has decided that the ancestral religion of all Indians is Hinduism, you can choose to “come home” from Christianity (or Islam) to Hinduism, but a reverse journey is strictly forbidden.
In 2023, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom found that India’s “anti-conversion laws prohibit conversions under circumstances that go beyond coercion, using broad and vague language that can be used to target voluntary religious conversions.” According to Jones:
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This Sunday is the feast of St. Bartholomew, who preached the gospel in India, as did his fellow apostle Thomas.
The gospel has been there for 2000 years, and its worst opponent has been Hindu nationalism, along with of course Islam in the parts of India that became Pakistan and Bangladesh. May God take unto Himself all those persecuted and martyred for the sake of the gospel.
Well, if they get a foothold here over muslims, then I see the same thing happening here.
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https://jamaateislamihind.org/eng/
Good thing they “banned” Mohammed’s murderers for 5 more years. That won’t stop them though India.
There are evil collectives and there are civilized collectives.
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