For decades, Christmas has meant trouble for Indian Christians. During the holiday, Hindu extremists ramp up attacks on Christian churches and organizations, always with the same accusations of forced and fraudulent conversions.
These extremists cannot understand or accept that there are Indians of various backgrounds, castes, and religions who find Jesus Christ extremely attractive. Many of them freely choose to follow and believe in him of their own accord. Perhaps these extremists don’t watch the many testimonies shared on YouTube of Indians who have found Jesus.Instead of fostering freedom of religion, the Indian government has even suspended World Vision’s license due to the FCRA .
Now, a leader of the ruling party, who has been forum-shopping in India's high courts and the Supreme Court, has filed yet another petition in the Supreme Court falsely based on the existence of forced and false conversions and the changing demographics of India. A bench of the Supreme Court has allowed the petition.
The practice of the Christian faith involves engaging in all kinds of social and compassionate activities because of Jesus’s teachings. Is helping the poor now a crime? And if people who are touched by the love of Jesus decide freely to follow him, is that also a crime? It seems obvious, but decisions like that are clearly an Indian’s individual right, guaranteed by our constitution.
Right-wing Hindu extremists who are working toward Hindu nationalism are just as dangerous as those who support Islamic nationalism or Christian nationalism. The message of Christmas, which is an offer of peace and goodwill toward men, is lost in this current context.
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