India Is Not Protecting Its Christians

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🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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On Thursday, Indians will learn the results of their country’s massive national elections. For the past five years, the country has been governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Despite Modi’s popularity among much of the country’s Hindu population, his tenure in office has proved difficult for India’s religious minorities. The Hindutva movement—which is made up of extremists who believe that all Indians must be Hindu—have gone after Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, and other religious minorities. “Christians in India are not the only ones facing the brunt of nationalism,” Vijayesh Lal, the general secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship of India. “We know about Muslims being lynched. … That would also be the Communists, who actually subscribe to no religion at all. That would also be the Dalits, or the untouchables.” Since 2014, India has risen 11 spots on Open Doors’ World Watch List, and last year the advocacy group said that more than 12,000 Christians were attacked. Lal joined digital media producer Morgan Lee and theology editor Caleb Lindgren to discuss why he is not optimistic about the election results, regardless of the victor, why the government denies Christians and Muslims affirmative action, and why conversion is complicated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.1	And today we have a show for you about India's elections and their impact
0:56.4	on the Christian population there.
1:06.5	I'm Morgan Lee, digital media producer here at Christianity today. I'm joined by my co-host, Caleb Lindgren.
1:13.2	Hi there.
1:13.7	Good to be back on.
1:14.8	As usual.
1:16.1	It is great to have you here, Caleb.
1:17.9	All right.
1:18.4	So who is our guest to talk about this intense subject today?
1:21.8	Yeah, so today we have Reverend Vijayash Lal.
1:25.1	He is the General Secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship of India.
1:29.4	So we're super pleased that you are here, Reverend Lowe. It's good to be here. Thank you.
1:33.6	What brings you here here as in our studio, at the seven?
1:37.2	I was visiting a couple of friends of mine in Chicago, and I know one of your colleagues, and he invited me over.
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