Indian Christians warn of attacks in West Bengal
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Christian group says it documented 48 instances of “vandalism and atrocities targeting prayer meetings, worship centres and churches” over past five months in West Bengal.
Indian Christian leaders say they suffered systematic attacks on their faith after a spate of church vandalism and assaults in West Bengal state, they told AFP on Friday.
Churches have been vandalised and pastors assaulted in the Hindu-majority state of 100 million people since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won state elections in May.
Hundreds of Christians marched through the state capital Kolkata on Thursday.