Tag: Bajrang Dal

Several on social media uploaded videos and images showing men shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram,’ ‘Har Har Mahadev’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’, in front of the stall of the Gideons International, an evangelical Christian association. The organisation distributes free copies of the Bible.

Police officials said the Bajrang Dal activists raided the Christian Bhawan during prayer and damaged the furniture along with other things.

I think it’s not the numerical strength of the Christians that makes the Sangh Parivar jittery. It’s the dispensation given to Christians called ‘grace’ that makes the saffron brigade look queasy and go weak in their knees.

THE ghar wapsi ceremony, the "return to home" as the fundamentalists call it, was held in Agra on this past December 8, and it is only the last such of a series that have taken place in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

A mob of 40 people belonging to Bajrang Dal stormed into a church at 4 pm on Saturday and attacked Christians who had gathered there for prayer. The church leader issued an email sent by one of the leaders of the local church.

IN April, elements of Bajrang Dal demolished the church in Taragaon, a small town in the farming- and forestry-dominated region of southern Chhattisgarh state.

DESPITE all the brouhaha raised by fundamentalist organizations such as the VHP and the Bajrang Dal, the Hyderabad Festival with Franklin Graham concluded in the city without an incident.

A group of eight believers were beaten and dragged to the police station. Their crime? Conducting evening prayers.

CHRISTIANS in Kandhamal district of Orissa, where large-scale violence was witnessed three years ago, celebrated Christmas peacefully.