India: cemetery vandalized after Hindu group charges Christians with forced conversions
March 27, 2017
A Christian graveyard was vandalized in India’s state of Uttar Pradesh, after a local Hindu-nationalist group issued charges that Christians were using pressure tactics to make converts.
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“The Christian missionaries have lured our young people for decades,” charged the Hindu Yuva Vahini group, which was founded in 2002 by a man who is now the chief executive of Uttar Pradesh. A local spokesman for Christians said that the charges—frequently raised by Hindu militants—were “completely unfounded.”
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