ICC Note:

A statue of Jesus Christ was hid and destroyed by vandals in a suburb of Mumbai as Mother Teresa was being canonized by the Catholic Church on September 4. Attacks on Christians and their places of worship in India has dramatically increased over the past two and a half years. Many claim this trend can be blamed on the Hindu nationalist government that took power in May 2014 and their policies that often incite religious tensions and do not enforce the religious freedom rights of minority religions, such as Christianity. 

9/9/2016 India (Agenzia Fides) – While the world had their eyes on the canonization of Mother Teresa on September 4, a statue of Christ was hit and destroyed by vandals in a suburb of Mumbai. As reported to Fides by Sajan K. George, head of the “Global Council of Indian Christians” (GCIC), “Mother Teresa’s canonization was a great day of joy in India and the world: the more so today our religious feelings are negatively affected by this vandalism. And if some attribute the incident to a drunk person, the lack of interest shown in particular by law enforcement officers for our religious feelings and the broken body of Our Jesus Christ is very painful”, said the president of the GCIC.

Violence on structures or Christian people keep Christians in India in alarm. Last July some unknown persons tried to set fire to a church belonging to the Protestant Indian community, “Church of South India”, in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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