By Nikita Jain
Attacks on Christians have increased in different parts of the country. However, in Central India’s Chhattisgarh, particularly, there has been a massive campaign to brainwash young Hindu men into attacking the community for alleged “forced conversions.”
In its report, the Evangelical Fellowship of India says violent incidents against Christians rose from 601 in 2023 to 840 in 2024, including assault, church vandalism, and wrongful arrests under the anti-conversion law.
Violence against Christians in India surged in 2024, with over 840 incidents reported last year, 640 of which were verified, according to data from the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI).
The EFI’s Religious Liberty Commission (RLC), in its annual report released on 10 March, highlighted a sharp rise in targeted attacks, including physical assaults, disruptions of prayer meetings, church vandalism, and wrongful arrests under anti-conversion laws.
The report Hate and Targeted Violence Against Christians in India Yearly Report 2024 showed that the number of cases jumped from 601 in 2023 to 840 in 2024, a stark contrast to the 147 cases documented in 2014.
On 3 March 2025, a mob of a Hindutva group supported by Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) reached WRS Colony located in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur and demolished a church that was constructed nearly two decades ago.
Videos showing men wearing saffron scarves and breaking the walls of a building, allegedly a church, located in the colony, went viral.
When Maktoob went on the ground, they saw the walls of the church being broken and rubble everywhere. The windows were broken and one side of the wall was completely shattered.
A few young girls who were present during the time of the incident said that only a handful of people were at home, as everyone had gone to work.
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