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Why is a Hindu group targeting Indian Catholics?

Two recent incidents that sparked fear and outrage among India’s Catholics.

Luke Coppen
Aug 08, 2025
∙ Paid

Two recent incidents that sparked fear and outrage among India’s Catholics have something in common, despite surface differences.

Bajrang Dal members hold a protest at St. Aloysius College in Mangaluru, India, in 2008. Mangalorean.com/wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0.

In the first, two nuns were arrested July 25 on highly questionable charges of human trafficking a…

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