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In view of the rampant illegal conversions and the lacklustre attitude of the State police against the Church-backed hooliganism, a bandh was observed in

The arrested, including some pro-Hindu leaders, were remanded into judicial custody, police said

A mob of hundreds of villagers vandalized a Catholic church in the Chhattisgarh state of India on Monday as tensions continue to rise between the area’s indigenous people who follow an animist religion and Christians.   

NEW DELHI: When Mungli Korram was giving birth in October, an ambulance sidecar took her to the nearest health center along near-impassable forest paths in Narayanpur. The remote district of Chhattisgarh, a tribal state in central India, is a heavily forested area, where many villages are miles away from roads suitable for vehicle access. The state has one of the highest

On January 2, a mob had vandalised a church after a group of Adivasis held a protest against alleged illegal religious conversions in Narayanpur district.

A group held a discussion over alleged religious conversions in Narayanpur on January 2, after which they allegedly barged into Vishwa Dipti school premises and vandalised a church.

Other headlines: The top court will hear a plea by Haldwani residents against demolitions, and a FIR filed against a man who urinated on a woman on flight.

Vishwa Hindu Parishad secretary general Milind Pande, in a press statement on Wednesday, expressed serious concern over the incidents of illegal conversions by Christian missionaries in Chhattisgarh. He said that the situation is a bit more ...

Agenzia Fides: Organo di informazione delle Pontificie Opere Missionarie dal 1927

Fact-finding team says tribal Christians in Chhattisgarh were beaten, forced to convert in campaign by right-wing Hindus