Every day, two Christians in India face attacks, according to the United Christian Forum (UCF), an ecumenical organisation that compiles data on atrocities against Christians.
Northeast Indian Christian leaders denounced the alarmist news that is being spread among people in connection with the issue of ‘forced conversion’, as false and expressed great anxiety about some of the painful developments in our society these days.
A human rights group based in New Delhi on June 16 submitted a memorandum to the federal minister demanding to set up national and state redressal commissions on anti-minority (religious) violence in India.
The United Christian Forum (UCF) has demanded urgent judicial and government intervention to check the rapid rise in incidents of violence, coercion and false arrests, traumatizing the Christian community in India.
At least 127 incidents of violence against Christians in India were registered in the first 103 days of 2022, according to a report released by an ecumenical group in New Delhi.
Data collected by the United Christian Forum (UCF) reports that in India, the year 2021 ended with 505 incidents of violence against Christians and the year 2022 began with 53 incidents in 45 days.