largest evangelical umbrella groups says his organization recorded over 1,000 anti-Christian attacks in 500 days in the southern Indian state of Karnataka and that the number is growing "by the day".
"It is regrettable to report on physical attacks on Christian workers and believers, vandalism of
church property, desecration of statues of
Jesus, and arrests of priests on frivolous complains of conversions in Karnataka," said Richard Howell, the general-secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship of
India (EFI).
Most recently, he said, on March 17 some 150 people allegedly led by right-wing Hindu extremist groups stormed the funeral of a 50-year-old Christian man at St. Thomas Church
"The mob pulled the coffin apart and desecrated the cross the relatives of the deceased were carrying. They threw the body in a tractor and dumped it outside, saying his burial would have contaminated the Indian soil and his body should be buried in Rome or America."
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