India — A teacher working in a village government school in India’s southern state of Telangana was suspended for allegedly packing Bibles in Christmas gift boxes and distributing them in the school.

The teacher, Gali Pullaiah, had distributed about 100 Christmas gift boxes containing assorted items, including stationery, water bottles, a small copy of the New Testament, and a card containing printed Christmas and New Year greetings.
Pullaiah had received these gift boxes from a Christian organization for distribution in the school. Pullaiah claimed he had taken due permission from the school head before the distribution.

When children took the gift boxes to their homes, their parents discovered the Bibles. Parents then complained to members of the Hindu nationalist political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who quickly complained to the district educational authorities and the police.

The BJP workers then stormed into the school, detained the teacher, and filed a police complaint against him. They also pressured school authorities to press false charges against Pullaiah, stating he distributed the boxes without authorization. Students were also forced to return the gift boxes.

The moderate-leaning Indian National Congress party currently rules the state of Telangana. The Telangana government has also officially granted permission to Christians in many regions of the state to publicly celebrate Christmas.

Despite this, Hindu nationalists in many places are violently opposing Christians who are exercising their constitutional rights under Article 25 to practice, propagate, and practice a religion of their choice without causing public and moral nuisance.

Most government schools celebrate all local religious festivals and follow numerous traditions related to Hinduism, but Hindutva ideologues take prompt umbrage to any signs of propagation of religions like Christianity and Islam in both public and private educational institutions.

Pastor Nagireddy, who hails from the same village as Pullaiah, told an International Christian staffer that the teacher’s relatives were monitoring him to get him in trouble for his Christian faith. This incident moved Pullaiah’s relatives to get revenge on him.
The district education officer, meanwhile, conducted an inquiry and placed Pullaiah on suspension.
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India — The United Christian Forum (UCF) has called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to establish a national-level inquiry to stem the alarming rise in incidents of violence against Christians in India.

In a Dec. 20 press release, A. C. Michael, UCF national coordinator and former member of the Delhi Minorities Commission, said a secretary-level official should lead the inquiry to investigate the persecution of Christians in India.

Modi leads a coalition government in which the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with Hindu has a majority and has ruled the country since 2014. The UCF report states that there has been an exponential increase in the number of incidents from 127 in 2014 to an all-time high of 745 incidents of violence against Christians by the end of November 2024.
These figures are derived from complaints received on the UCF toll-free helpline set up in January 2015 amid a disturbing surge in violence against Christians in India.

“Many other incidents may have occurred that were not reported through our hotline and, therefore, are not included in the total number,” the UCF stated.

According to the UCF, the helpline service was designed to help those in distress, offering guidance on how to approach public authorities and secure legal remedies in the face of escalating persecution.

UCF also stated that, once again, no data on attacks on Christians and churches in the northeast state of Manipur has been included.

“Last year, the tragic violence, bloodshed, and the demolition of over 200 churches in Manipur were also not reflected in the UCF figures,” UCF stated.

Sectarian violence has been raging in Manipur since May 2023, with Kuki and Meitei tribals fighting against each other in gun battles and the destruction of religious places, especially those belonging to Christians.

Meanwhile, the Christian forum lamented that a petition filed with the Supreme Court, demanding strict action against anti-Christian vigilante groups engaged in violence against Christians in India, has not been heard again since the initial hearings in 2022.
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ബെംഗളൂരു: ക്രിസ്ത്യന്‍ സമൂഹത്തെ സന്തോഷിപ്പിക്കാന്‍ 5 സമ്മാനങ്ങള്‍ നല്‍കുന്നത് പരിഗണിക്കണമെന്ന് പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി മോദിയോട് ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ട് ബെംഗളൂരു ആര്‍ച്ച് ബിഷപ്പ് ഡോ.പീറ്റര്‍ മച്ചാഡോ.
1) മതപരിവര്‍ത്തന നിരോധന നിയമത്തിന്റെ പേരില്‍ ക്രൈസ്തവര്‍ക്കുനേരെ നടക്കുന്ന അക്രമങ്ങള്‍ അവസാനിപ്പിക്കണം.ഓ
2)സംസ്ഥാനങ്ഹളില്‍ ഈ നിയമം പാസാക്കി യഥാര്‍ത്ഥ മതസ്വാതന്ത്യത്തിനു വേണ്ടി കരുണയോടുള്ള സമൂപനം നടത്താന്‍ ഈ സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങളോഓട് നിര്‍ദ്ദേശിക്കണം.
3) ക്രിസ്ത്യന്‍ സ്ഥാപനങ്ങള്‍ക്കു നേരെയുള്ള അക്രമണങ്ങള്‍ അവസാനിപ്പിക്കണം.
4്)മണിപ്പൂരിലെ പ്രശ്‌നങ്ങള്‍ പരിഹരിക്കണം.പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി അവിടം സന്ദര്‍ശിക്കണം..
5)ക്രിസ്ത്യാനികളിലെ പട്ടികജാതി-വര്‍ഗ വിഭാഗങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് ഭരണഘടനാലുസൃത സംവരണം അനുവദിക്കണം.
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