Hindu Persection of Christians in India

Written By: Elwood McQuaid  |  Posted: Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Compass Direct News reports that Christians in India were battered last year by radical Hindu extremists. A partial listing of the violent attacks confirmed that Christians were assaulted more than three times each week. As in many areas dominated by radical Muslims, Hindu militants employ the spurious accusation of "forcible conversions" against believers marked for attacks. The situation boils down to the question, "Who will the courts believe?" Most often they side against Christians falsely accused of forcing people to convert to Christianity.

Dr. John Dayal, a member of the government's National Integration Council, said, "If 2007 and 2008 went down in history as the most blood-soaked ones in history of modern Christianity in India, 2009 surely rates as the year of frustrating confrontations with the law and tardy governance and on justice for the victims of communal violence."

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