Christian community attacked in India by Hindu extremists, the reason

The police intervened yesterday, Sunday 8 November, in a Christian religious hall in Belagaviin Karnataka, to protect the faithful from an attack by Hindus belonging to the Sri Ram Sena, an extremist Hindu organization.

According to the attackers, who broke into the hall and interrupted the celebration, the Christian pastor Cherian he was trying to convert some Hindus.

The newspaper The Hindu writes that the Police were forced to break down the doors, which had been sealed by extremists, led by Ravikumar Kokitkar.

In a press conference, the leader of the group told reporters that some Christian shepherds "from outside" have been traveling for weeks to villages in the district to convert the most fragile Hindus, donating money, sewing machines and bags of rice and sugar.

"If the government does not intend to stop these activities, we will take care of it," he threatened. After having protected the community of Christian faithful, however, the deputy police commissioner D. Chandrappa he said the function would be illegal and without permission, because it was taking place in a private home, not in a public place.

Yesterday's attack is just the latest in a disturbing series of attacks on Christians across India. The agency asianews he reports that on 1 November in a village in Chhattisgarh a dozen Christians, belonging to a tribal community, were shaved in public, in a ceremony to "make them Hindu again". The extremists who humiliated and forced them had threatened them by claiming that they would lose their homes, properties and rights to the state's forest land.

AsiaNews added: "This is not an isolated gesture: the Christians of Chhattisgarh live constantly in fear of these ghar vapsi campaigns, as conversions to Hinduism are called".

Source: ANSA.