ICC Note:

The homes of Christian converts in India’s Chhattisgarh state were burned down by fellow villagers after the new converts refused to return to Hinduism. According to reports, the incident took place in Katholi village, located in the Kanker district of Chhattisgarh state. The Hindu villagers believed that the conversion to Hinduism had provoked anger in the local Hindu deities and demanded that the new Christians return to Hinduism. When they refused, they were beaten and had their homes destroyed. Religious conversion remains a tense subject in India despite the constitution providing an individual’s right to practice the religion of their choice. 

6/2/2016 India (Christians in Pakistan) – Houses of Christians burnt by villagers, who assumed that Hindu deities have been provoked to anger by their conversion to Christianity. The incident took place in Katholi village, Kanker District of Chhattisgarh State in India. The vandals drove these newly Christian converts from their houses and torched their houses.

The Christians who had been targeted, had converted from Hinduism to Christianity. The local had concluded that their Hindu deities were irritated, by their conversions. One day these Christian converts were summoned to a public meeting and were asked to renounce Christianity. After they refused to give up their Christian faith, villagers tortured them ahead of burning their houses.

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