Karnataka: According to the police, unidentified individuals vandalised a church in Mysuru, Karnataka, on Tuesday. They also harmed the church’s statue of the infant Jesus.
Two days after Christmas, the St. Mary’s Church in Mysuru’s Periyapatna was vandalised.
To track down the suspects who are fugitives, numerous police teams have been organised.
To help identify the suspect, police are also reviewing the CCTV footage that was recorded on the church’s property.
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Attackers shattered the church’s back door to get inside.
At 6 p.m. on Tuesday, a member of the church staff noticed the damage and promptly called the pastor. According to the police, the attackers shattered the church’s back door to get inside.
Seema Latkar, Superintendent of Police, Mysuru, remarked, “We are scouting for clues from the CCTV footage recorded by nearby cameras. Prima Facie looks like it is theft, as they have made away with money, and also with one collection box that was placed outside the church.”
Due to charges of forced religious conversion, a number of churches and Christian missionaries have come under fire from various religious and political organisations in recent months.
A Christmas programme was attacked last Friday in Uttarakhand’s Uttarakashi by a mob of individuals armed with sticks under the pretence that forced conversions were taking place there.
Two people were detained in Uttar Pradesh on Monday for allegedly converting non-Christians to Christianity.
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Karnataka’s contoroversial anti-conversion law
In January of this year, Karnataka approved a law banning conversions “from one religion to another by use or practice of misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means or by any of these means or by promise of marriage.”
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai had stated last year that the state was “seriously contemplating” enacting a similar law in light of the fact that some BJP-ruled states, such as Uttar Pradesh, already have laws to prohibit coercive religious conversions.
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