What is behind Christian-Hindu Violence?
“… Across this remote region, deep in the highland forests, the pattern was repeated over and over.
Churches were ransacked, entire villages razed and their inhabitants forced to flee into the forests.
The violence, which began on Christmas Eve, has now largely abated, but the plight of the people has not.
Many are now living in the shells of their burned out homes, all their possessions lost.
The conflict has pitted Hindu against Christian, tribal against non-tribal.
All share some responsibility for what has happened, all have suffered. Years of relatively peaceful co-existence of these communities, living a fragile rural existence, has been shattered.
The Christian community blames the virulently anti-Christian rhetoric of Hindu nationalist organisations; and one person in particularly, a revered local holy man, Lakhanananda Saraswati. …”
Via BBC >
What’s behind the Christian-Hindu violence? Let’s not make this more complicated than it is: religion.
Category: Commentary, Persecution, Violence