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India was ranked 15th in the world in terms of danger to Christians, up from 31st four years earlier. According to the report, it is estimated that a church was burnt down or a cleric beaten on average 10 times a week in India in the year to 31 October 2016, a threefold increase on the previous year. [23]
The perpetrators of are the Bangladeshi military and the Bengali Muslim settlers, who together have burned down Buddhist and Hindu temples, killed many Chakmas, and carried out a policy of gang-rape against the indigenous people. There are also accusations of Chakmas being forced to convert to Islam, many of them children who have been abducted ...
Eleven of the priest's ashrams, schools, and orphanages around the state were burned down by the NLFT. In September 2008, Swami Laxmanananda , a popular regional Hindu Guru was murdered along with four of his disciples by unknown assailants (though a Maoist organisation later claimed responsibility for that [ 78 ] [ 79 ] ).
In India, where he lived until four months ago, he owned five restaurants. He lost everything during the Covid-19 pandemic. “God has sent me to be among these people,” Moninder Singh said.
[citation needed] As a result, Muslim mosques, Christian churches, Zoroastrian fire temples [citation needed], Jain and Buddhist temples were converted into Hindu places of worship. Since the dawn of the 20th century, there have been active movements to convert non-Hindu religious sites into temples, primarily in the West [ 1 ] and in India .
St Mary's Church, Putney – The church was badly damaged by fire as the result of an arson attack in 1973. The interior was completely rebuilt and the church re-consecrated in 1982. [99] Sheffield Cathedral – The parish church predecessor was burned in 1266. [100] The present cathedral has suffered from fires in the 20th and 21st centuries ...
A large mob set a church on fire before trying to demolish it in Padalkhaid. [46] [47] On December 26, a mob of 500 armed with tridents, iron bars and heavy-sticks set fire to a church on Waki, [48] a tribal Christian and his family members were assaulted in Galkund. On the same day at about 12:30 a.m, a mob pelted stones on several Christian ...
The Vietnamese monk set himself on fire in Saigon in 1963 in protest of the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government backed by the U.S. Several other monks followed his example.