An NGO of Catholic scholars and social workers from the Northeast has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to express his “disapproval” of the attacks on the Christian community in the country over the past two years. The Guwahati-based North East Catholic Research Forum (NECRF), in an eight-page memorandum to Modi, has drawn his attention to the “834 attacks” on the Christian community in 2024 and “706 attacks” between January and November in 2025. This violent incident mentally traumatised the handful of Christians in the locality so much that the midnight service had to be cancelled”. Police had arrested five members of the Bajrang Dal and the VHP in connection with the incident. We are confident that a word of disapproval from you against such deplorable activities will certainly change this sorry state of affairs.

Source: The Telegraph January 04, 2026 02:10 UTC