{"id":40136,"date":"2021-12-27T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T06:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/27\/jesus-statue-smashed-in-spate-of-attacks-on-indias-christian-community"},"modified":"2021-12-27T15:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T06:35:04","slug":"jesus-statue-smashed-in-spate-of-attacks-on-indias-christian-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40136","title":{"rendered":"Jesus statue smashed in spate of attacks on India\u2019s Christian community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid growing intolerance to India\u2019s Christian minority, several Christmas events were targeted by Hindu right wing groups<\/p>\n<p>Festive celebrations were disrupted, Jesus statues were smashed and effigies of Santa Claus were burned in a spate of attacks on India\u2019s Christian community over Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Amid growing intolerance and violence against India\u2019s Christian minority, who make up about 2% of India\u2019s population, several Christmas events were targeted by Hindu right wing groups, who alleged Christians were using festivities to force Hindus to convert.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/27\/jesus-statue-smashed-in-spate-of-attacks-on-indias-christian-community\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid growing intolerance to India\u2019s Christian minority, several Christmas events were targeted by Hindu right wing groupsFestive celebrations were disrupted, Jesus statues were smashed and effigies of Santa Claus were burned in a spate of attacks on In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-india","category-religion"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40136","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40137,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40136\/revisions\/40137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}