The Asia News website reports today (September 3, 2010) that Hindus in some 20 villages in the Indian state of Orissa have been treating more than 4,000 Christians as social outcasts, and pressuring them with force to convert to Hinduism.
In addition to fears, threats, and total banishment from the local economy, Christians are not allowed to use public fountains or collect wood in the forest.
"People are living in misery," said Mgr. Raphael Cheenath, SVD, Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, this week. He added, "The Orissa State government has an obligation to do something about it and protect Christians from this inhuman treatment."
Between August 22 and 24, victims, human rights activists, and religious leaders organized a people's court in New Delhi to shed light on what happened and convince India's central government to intervene.
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