Reports say that fifteen churches were attacked and people, including women were brutally beaten in different places in India on Sunday, October 3, 2021.
Over the last few years, there have been intensified attempts to subdue, frighten and even kill Christians. Reports are not taken in and the violence or killings are not alluded to religion.
Here in this case, in particular there is video coverage of an attack in Roorkee, Haridwar, Uttarakhand.
Apparently a Christian leader called Sister Sadhna was taking service this Sunday morning in the church in Sonali Puram Roorkee Uttarakhand. Suddenly fanatics entered in the church and started beating them brually not sparing the women either and battered the church leaving it in smithereens.
Sis Sadhna was taking Church in Sonali Puram Roorkee Uttarakhand. Suddenly fanatics entered in the Church and beating them. See the Condition of Christian's in India@POTUS @ShayarImran@advocate_tee @priyankagandhi@RahulGandhi @persecutionnews @BBCWorld @dwnews @uca @WSJ pic.twitter.com/DC3dEW7sGi — Minakshi Singh (@Minaksh82255102) October 3, 2021
Saral Patel tweeted: “Church attacked by RSS goons in Roorkee, Haridwar. Women were brutally beaten up, Church was vandalised. CM Pushkar Singh Dhami was in the Haridwar District when this happened, Did this attack have a sanction of the state government?”
Church attacked by RSS goons in Roorkee, Haridwar. Women were brutally beaten up, Church was vandalised. CM Pushkar Singh Dhami was in the Haridwar District when this happened, Did this attack have a sanction of the state government? 🧐 pic.twitter.com/UvHx3wFRgH — Saral Patel (@SaralPatel) October 3, 2021
He shared footage of the attack inside the church:
Footage from inside the church- pic.twitter.com/XxWMLRC0RW — Saral Patel (@SaralPatel) October 3, 2021
Christians are suffering with these attacks. @UNHumanRights pic.twitter.com/cfH7KHpcdV — Jude David (@judedavid21) October 3, 2021
Attacks are not new for Christians, and violence, vandalism and attacks, and in some cases killing Christians are rising emboldened by the silence of the government with not enough voices raised up for Christians.
Fake stories of forced conversions are floating around, but in reality no one can force conversion. New converts have to pay a big price to become a Christian and it is not easy being a Christian, certainly not in India which has always been majoritarian Hindu always.
The Muslims ruled for over six hundred years in India, the British for nearly two hundred years and in all this, Hindus remain around eighty percent of the population. While they say that Christians are forcing people to convert, if one thinks about this logically, Christians are 2% plus, so where is this theory that Muslims and especially Christians forced conversions on Hindus?
Today, one must not forget that in USA and UK and other places in Europe, Hindus have the freedom to worship and even propagate Hinduism and no one hurts them for that. In fact, they say proudly that Hinduism is growing fast in Europe and Russia. Yogic centers are all over USA with Krishna Centers and ashrams, temples etc.
If a Christian American or Westerner become a Hindu, Sanatan Dharma Hindutva bhakts are delighted, but if a Hindu become a Christian, violence, threats and even killing ensues. What message do they want to give the world, one of violence?
Westerners and Americans have embraced Hinduism, and they are not persecuted by their government for it.
Most of the English-speaking people in India studied in Christian missionary schools and there were hundreds of these missionary schools scattered over India and if there were forced conversions, there would be more Christians all over India, which is not the case.
In the 2000s, Christian missions ran 16,500 schools and 6,500 hospitals in India. L. K. Advani ji, late Arun Jaitley and many others studied in missionary schools, and we cannot say that people are converting all over because of these schools or hospitals. Christianity immerses itself in good works as an expression of love for others and God. People who studied in missionary schools are still Hindu, Buddhist or whatever faith they are. They never felt forced to convert, so this is a lie being propagated about conversions.
The woman who is actively instigating the No Conversion movement on Twitter has raised up a movement of violence and it is stunning that Twitter allows such open hatred to a particular religion.
Today, in India when Christians gather on Sunday mornings to worship God, their church doors are rammed open, pastors and even congregation in the church are beaten, sometimes so badly that they break their legs, break the churches and the Hindu fundamentalists make reports to the police that these Christians are converting the people to Christ. People gather in a house for a prayer meeting and the Hindu extremist barge in to stop them, declaring they cannot do that, as this is a Hindu country. (India is declared as a secular democratic republic by our constitution. We now ask, “Is not the law protecting Christians anymore? Today, hundreds of churches have been stopped and shut down. The Hindutva group barge in, demanded who is funding them.
Different Hindutva leaders vow to free India of Muslims and Christians by 2021:however American Indian Hindutva supporters enjoy minority rights in USA but advocate fascism and minority suppression back in India.
Again, not all humans are perfect and there will be some bad apples in the basket, but it is incorrect to generalize a whole community because of that or ridicule them.
In the villages, most of the pastors are poor, and there is no outside funding. Many raise self sufficient methods, some hold two jobs, but reports of Christians flourishing because of western funds keep floating around. . And tell me why Hindus would “convert” to Christianity for benefit? It is far easier being a Hindu in India. Conversion is a spiritual experience and a personal choice. Why would people even be willing to die for it if it was not so strong within them?
Today, pastors are taken to prison, or the lockup for claims of conversion. The violates are never punished for beating and even for killing Christians because most of their reports are not taken by the cops.
As Ashok Swain (Associate Professor and Director of the Programme of International Studies, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, from Sweden) said, “Diaspora politics is seductive & populist. It is a dangerous game for both homeland & host country. Pampering to diaspora can make political leaders compromise national interest for the sake of political opportunism. #HowdyModi is good for Trump & Modi but bad for USA & India. And “Indian American Hindutva groups, largely upper caste Indians, are advocates of minority rights in the U.S., but simultaneously and contradictorily supportive or uncritical of cultural supremacism and majoritarianism in India.”
I narrate the tragic incident of Nitish who lived in Bihar, a 14-year-old Christian boy, who had no mother, had a doting father and great supportive brother. Recently, Nitish was killed because he and his father and brother had converted to Christianity from Hinduism a few years back. Due to this, the family received a series of threats. One day, the village fanatics threw acid on him leaving him with 60% acid burns. He struggled for his life in agony for a few days and tragically died a week back on Saturday night. The police refused to register a case against the killers and the police write that he died of “suicide”!
Are we looking at freedom, justice, equality and integrity in the land? Most people are afraid, others speak out not knowing when their number would come, and in the meantime, a lot of Media are like paid parrots, the Courts are slumbering in deep sleep it seems most times, while the rakshasas are dancing in the dark under a silent Heaven
Rita
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