Last Friday, a mob of 50 assailants with iron rods and lathis attacked the indigenous Christians in Chhattisgarh’s Chinghavaram village in which more than 25 people were harmed and four were seriously injured.
Every year, hundreds of people are pushed into manual scavenging. Majority of the workers employed to do such work are Dalits, the outcast community often considered “untouchables” within the country.
A house church in Tamil Nadu was forced to close after local officials demanded the church pastor to not hold any worship services.
