NEW DELHI, Jan. 8 -- Since 2014, Christians in India have been victims of continued attacks and vilification from members of the ruling regime all over the country. Christians have been hounded and harassed, their places of worship destroyed, they have been denied their ordinary rights as citizens and been subject to denigration and demonisation. The anti-conversion laws which have been put into place in BJP-ruled States are used as weapons against the fundamental right to preach, practise and propagate one's religion. Celebrations in schools have been stopped, and Christians have been arrested without any warrant and put behind bars for no offence of theirs.

The government seems keen to starve Christianity out of existence by withdrawin...