: Why are Christians being attacked in Adivasi villages in Chhattisgarh? #IndiaNEWS Our first glimpse of Chingavaram, a village in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, was in the dark. It was early evening

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Why are Christians being attacked in Adivasi villages in Chhattisgarh? #IndiaNEWS
Our first glimpse of Chingavaram, a village in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, was in the dark. It was early evening on November 28. The village was quiet and apparently peaceful. A youth sat in the verandah of the local grocery shop, browsing on his mobile.“Yes, there was some trouble three nights ago,??? he told us, pointing down the road. “The Christian houses are there.??? We found no one there except for a few old women. The attackThe next morning, we spent two hours with influential members of the village: the sarpanch-pati, or the powerful husband of the female head of the panchayat, the patel, or the village headman, the son of the pujari, the village priest, and a teacher. We also met a leader of the Koya samaj, a tribal body, from the neighbouring village and a few others. Budra Madavi, the sarpanch-pati, described what had happened a few days earlier:“The incident occurred on the intervening night of November 24 and 25. It began around 1am. Some families in our village have been Isu [Jesus] believers for the last five or six years. We had sat with them two or three times and tried to reason with them. We told them, don’t believe in Jesus. We have...Read more

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