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The US Commission on International Religious Freedom classified India as Tier-2 in persecuting religious minorities, the same as that of Iraq and Egypt. In a 2018 report, USCIRF charged Hindu nationalist groups for their campaign to " Saffronize " India through violence, intimidation, and harassment against non-Hindus. [ 12 ]
Religion in India is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Throughout India's history, religion has been an important part of the country's culture and the Indian subcontinent is the birthplace of four of the world's major religions, namely, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which are collectively known as native Indian religions or Dharmic religions and ...
Vishwambhar Nath Mishra, the priest of a prominent Hindu temple in Varanasi, believes Modi’s stoking of religious tensions is ruining the fabric of Indian society. Varanasi, he noted, is a ...
Hindus consider Sambhal as sacred as many puranas and other texts consider the city to be the birthplace of Kalki, the tenth avatar/incarnation of Lord Vishnu.The Shahi Jama Masjid, located in Sambhal, has been at the center of dispute following claims that it was constructed on the ruins of a Shri Hari temple allegedly demolished by the Mughal ruler Babur in the early 16th century. [12]
Tensions were high Wednesday in the western Indian city of Udaipur, a day after police arrested two Muslim men accused of slitting a Hindu tailor's throat and posting a video of it on social media ...
In India, a Hindu-majority country, ethno-religious tensions with its Muslim-minority, boiled over after defeat to Pakistan in the cricket T20 World Cup. India has an eroding image of tolerance in ...
On 13 October 2008, the National Integration Council of India called a special meeting chaired by Manmohan Singh, then Prime Minister of India, where he condemned the violence of Hindu militant organisations such as Bajrang Dal, VHP etc. [citation needed] The prime minister had earlier publicly admitted that the ongoing violence against the ...
Indian Independence Day means vastly different things across a country shaped by religious and ethnic conflicts, as well as caste discrimination. Hindu nationalism in India ratchets up tensions ...