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Indian Christians warn of attacks in West Bengal

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“Indian Christians warn of attacks in West Bengal”

Indian Christian leaders say they suffered systematic attacks on their faith after a spate of church vandalism and assaults in West Bengal state, they told AFP on Friday. Churches have been vandalised and pastors assaulted in the Hindu-majority state of 100 million people since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won state elections in May . Hundreds of Christians marched through the state capital Kolkata on Thursday. “For the last five months, we’ve…

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