Persecution Watch: RLC documents 11 incidents in the first 15 days of February
From Religious Liberty Commission of Evangelical Fellowship of India:
[…] On 4 February in Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party’s national secretary and Andhra Pradesh co-in-charge, Sunil Deodhar, accused Chief Minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy of wanting everyone to become a Christian, and assured that an anti-conversion law would be brought in if Jana Sena-BJP government came to power in the state. Speaking to a mainstream media, the BJP leader who has been camping in Andhra Pradesh for the past few months for the Tirupati Lok Sabha by-polls, also remarked that those Hindus who had converted to Christianity could not continue to take the benefits of reservation and Hindus who had converted to Christianity could not be considered as Scheduled Caste (SC). Deodhar further remarked that the church had political interests and demanded that video footages of those who visit churches regularly should be released and attendance registers of churches be made public.
On 6 February in Lakhnadon town, Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh, two missionaries of the India Evangelical Mission were falsely accused of involving in religious conversion activities during a wedding. The duo had been invited as guests to the wedding by a Christian family but had to leave midway after some religious extremists confronted them. Subsequently police arrived at the venue searching for the missionaries and took the Christian families to the nearby police station. The Christians were interrogated the entire night about the whereabouts of the missionaries.
On 7 February in Alirajpur district, Madhya Pradesh, a mob of religious extremists forcefully barged into a church. Around 25 people had gathered there for Sunday prayers. The mob threatened and physically assaulted the men and women. The assailants lodged a complaint at the Udaygarh police station alleging that people were being lured to Christianity in the church. Police detained all 25 Christians, interrogated them, and eventually registered an FIR against Pastor Dilip Vasuniya, under sections 3 and 5 of the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Ordinance, 2020. The pastor was sent to jail. Subsequently on 10 February, the pastor was released on bail.
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