{"id":37619,"date":"2021-10-04T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/india-christians-living-in-fear-claims-forced-conversions"},"modified":"2021-10-04T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T00:00:42","slug":"indias-christians-living-in-fear-as-claims-of-forced-conversions-swirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37619","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Christians living in fear as claims of \u2018forced conversions\u2019 swirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in Chhattisgarh say Hindu nationalist BJP has revived claims to tarnish reputation of rival Congress<\/p>\n<p>It was a stifling July afternoon when the crowd moved into the small district of Lakholi, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, and gathered outside the house of Tamesh War Sahu. Sahu, a 55-year-old volunteer with the Home Guard who had begun following Christianity more than five years previously, had never before had issues with his neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>But now, more than 100 people had descended from surrounding villages and were shouting Hindu nationalist slogans outside his front door. Sahu\u2019s son Moses, who had come out to investigate the noise, was beaten by the mob, who then charged inside.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/india-christians-living-in-fear-claims-forced-conversions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in Chhattisgarh say Hindu nationalist BJP has revived claims to tarnish reputation of rival CongressIt was a stifling July afternoon when the crowd moved into the small district of Lakholi, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, and gathered o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[370,62,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-india","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37620,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37619\/revisions\/37620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}