ICC Note:
India’s bishops have appealed to Prime Minister Narendara Modi to uphold the secular character of the country. This appeal follows the release of a report that recorded 7,000 incidents of Christian persecution taking place in India in 2014. Since Modi’s rise to power in May 2014, attacks on Christians and their places of worship have skyrocketed. Hindu radicals now seem emboldened and attack Christians with near impunity. Will Modi heed the bishops’ appeal?
1/23/2015 India (Catholic Culture) – India’s Catholic bishops have made an urgent plea to Prime Minister Narendara Modi to uphold the secular character of the country.
The bishops, led by Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Catholicos, president of India’s episcopal conference, called upon the nation’s political leader “to urgently intervene and take appropriate action to stop incidents that pose big threat to the unity of this secular nation.”
The bishops’ appeal to Modi came at the same time that the Catholic Secular Forum released a report detailing attacks on Christian in India. The report said that five Christians had been killed, and 7,000 subjected to some form of violence, during the past calendar year.
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