Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Report on Persecution of Christians in India: Church in Chains
9:40 am
Mr. David Turner:
Prior to this meeting Pastor Baiju George told me about one of the attacks that occurred recently on a family home. The people present in the home were members of the family and extended family. There was not one person present who was not a member of the family. The extremists arrived and said that they were meeting for the purpose of conversion and, therefore, they could attack them. It appears that the word "conversion" is being used as a trigger to justify the attacks that are taking place.
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