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Chhattisgarh: un estado donde las minorías religiosas viven con miedo

Posted on 19/05/2023 by cswpress in Asia ES, español, India ES

Cinco meses después de la violencia que una turba provoco y que obligó a cientos de cristianos de la zona tribal de Chhattisgarh a huir de sus hogares, las víctimas dicen que están de vuelta en casa y a salvo por ahora, pero siguen viviendo con miedo.

El 18 de diciembre de 2022, se informaron sobre más de 20 incidentes de violencia anticristiana en varias aldeas de los distritos de Kondgaon y Narayanpur de Chhattisgarh. Los lugareños afirmaron que los presionaron para que abandonaran su religión y que, si se negaban, los golpeaban brutalmente, destrozaban sus casas y destrozaban sus cultivos.

Según informes que surgieron más tarde, cerca de mil cristianos se vieron obligados a huir de sus hogares y buscar refugio en los distritos vecinos. Algunos tuvieron que caminar cientos de kilómetros para buscar refugio en un estadio cubierto.

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Chhattisgarh: A state where religious minorities live in fear

Posted on 18/05/2023 by cswpress in Asia, India

Five months after the mob violence that forced hundreds of Christians from Chhattisgarh’s tribal belt to flee their homes, victims say they are back home and safe for now, but they continue to live in fear.

On 18 December 2022, more than 20 incidents of anti-Christian violence were reported in various villages of Chhattisgarh’s Kondgaon and Narayanpur districts. Locals claimed that they were pressured to leave their religion and if they refused, they were beaten up badly, their homes were vandalised and their crops were destroyed.

According to reports that emerged later, close to a thousand Christians were forced to flee their homes and seek shelter in neighbouring districts. Some had to walk hundreds of kilometres to seek shelter in an indoor stadium.

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Tras el brutal ataque a uno de los suyos, la comunidad que es minoría religiosa en México espera justicia y libertad religiosa

Posted on 19/04/202303/05/2023 by cswpress in español, Latin America ES, Mexico ES

María Concepción Hernández Hernández comenzó el 2023 en el hospital después de un brutal ataque físico que está relacionado con ser parte de la minoría religiosa en su comunidad. El 1 de enero ingresó a cuidados intensivos debido a vómitos constantes que le impedían retener los alimentos. Pasó diez días allí antes de ser dada de alta brevemente solo para regresar a cuidados intensivos debido a vómitos con sangre el 18 de enero.

Como los médicos no reportaron ninguna mejoría al principio, su familia no veía mucha esperanza, hasta llegar al punto de que los miembros de su iglesia en Rancho Nuevo en el Municipio de Huejutla de los Reyes del estado de Hidalgo, México, habían limpiado un terreno. para su entierro.

Afortunadamente, ella salió adelante. Regresó a casa el 9 de febrero y hoy camina con la ayuda de su hijo y un bastón. Todavía sufre un dolor de espalda persistente causado por haber sido arrojada con fuerza contra el tronco de un árbol, pero su recuperación sigue siendo milagrosa.

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After a brutal attack on one of their own, a religious minority community in Mexico is waiting for justice and religious freedom

Posted on 17/04/202317/04/2023 by cswpress in Latin America, Mexico

Maria Concepción began 2023 in hospital recovering from a brutal physical attack that was linked to her membership of a religious minority in her community. On 1 January she was admitted to intensive care due to constant vomiting that meant she was unable to keep food down. She spent ten days there before she was briefly released only to be returned to intensive care due to vomiting blood on 18 January.

As doctors did not report any improvement at first, her family did not see much hope at all, to the point that members of her church in Rancho Nuevo in the Huejutla de los Reyes Municipality of Hidalgo state, Mexico, had cleared a piece of land for her burial.

Mercifully, she pulled through. She returned home on 9 February, and today she walks with the help of her son and a cane. She still suffers from persistent back pain caused by being forcefully thrown into the trunk of a tree, but her recovery remains nothing short of miraculous.

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Chhattisgarh’s tribal Christian communities continue to live in fear

Posted on 26/01/202326/01/2023 by cswpress in Asia, India

For tribal Christian communities in India’s Chhattisgarh State, the new year hasn’t really come with hopes of a better or safer future.

On 2 January a Hindu nationalist mob barged into the Vishwa Dipti Christian School campus in Narayanpur district and vandalised a church located within the premises of the school. Videos of the mob repeatedly hitting statues of Jesus and Mary, and scattering furniture surfaced on the internet. Both members of the mob and the churchgoers belonged to local tribes in Narayanpur, the two most prominent of which are the Gond and Muria tribes.

But what grabbed national headlines and went viral on social media was the image of a bleeding senior police official who was attacked by the mob when he tried to intervene. Narayanpur’s Superintendent of Police Sadanand Kumar was soon rushed to the hospital after suffering a serious head injury. Christians in Chhattisgarh have suffered attacks like these for several months with hardly any interest from the media, but it was only when a person of power was injured that anyone paid any attention.

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