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India: Six Christian Women Jailed

August 4, 2022

Many Hindus believe that conversion to Christianity is an attack on their culture and way of life, and an imminent threat to both, despite the fact that Christianity has been a presence in India since the days of St. Thomas the Apostle. Instances such as those described below are the result.

For previous ChristianPersecution.com coverage of the persecution of Christians in India, see here.

“Six Christian Women Jailed in India,” International Christian Concern, August 3, 2022:

08/03/2022 India (International Christian Concern) –Last week, on July 30, six Christian women were arrested and jailed in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on charges of forced conversion. According to local sources, the six women were attending a birthday celebration at a the home of a local Christian family alongside nearly 100 other Christians. During the celebratory activities, a mob of around 15 radical Hindu nationalists barged into the event and accused the Christians of coercive conversion activities. The radicals harassed the Christian group, recorded videos of the premises, and stole Bibles and song books from the Christians. They submitted the videos and stolen literature to the police as evidence against the Christians. When the police arrived on the scene, they did not confront the radicals for harassing this peaceful and celebratory gathering. Instead, they chose to arrest the six women and charge them under the state’s anti-conversion law.

A local pastor, who requested to remain anonymous, told ICC, “The six women who are in jail are very poor economically. Among the six women, one is physically challenged, one is a widow with three small children, and one is a single unmarried girl. The situation with these families is very pathetic; the family members are accusing the local pastor that he is responsible for all of their trouble, and he has to bear all the expenses and bring them out of the jail as soon as possible.”

The Christian community in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has recently been facing the brunt of the growing anti-Christian hatred in India, and in incidents such as this one, the radical Hindu nationalists who persecute Christians are often backed by sympathetic state authorities….