{"id":118209,"date":"2025-12-26T10:49:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=118209"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:50:22","slug":"freedom-of-worship-assaulted-as-mobs-mar-christmas-festivities-across-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/118209\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of worship assaulted as mobs mar Christmas festivities across India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RAIPUR(National times)-  Mobs, armed with wooden sticks, vandalised Christmas decorations in several parts of India, with multiple incidents reported on Christmas day. According to Kashmir Media Service, Hindu extremists went berserk in Raipur, the capital of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, and stormed a Christmas party and a shopping mall besides destroying decorations, including a Christmas tree. The attack occurred at Magneto Mall. The videos of the incident have gone viral on social media. In the videos, Hindutva rioters can be seen vandalising Christmas decorations. The incident took place at a time when a strike call was given in Chhattisgarh against alleged illegal religious conversions across the state. Indian media also reported that members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad Bajrang Dal \u2014 which has been classified as a Hindu militant organisation by the US Central Intelligence Agency \u2014 vandalised a school, disrupting Christmas preparations, in the Nalbari district of Assam. The media, citing police, said Bajrang Dal members also damaged festival items at shops in Assam. \u201cThe activists entered the St Mary\u2019s School of Panigaon village and vandalised the preparation of the Christmas Day programme. They burnt down the banner and posters of the celebration,\u201d an unidentified police official was quoted by The Hindu as having said. The official further said that Bajrang Dal activists had raised the slogan of \u201cJai Shree Ram\u201d and warned the administration against celebrating Christmas at the school. \u201cThey then went to various shops selling Christmas goods in Nalbari town and set fire to some items in front of the shops near the Jain Mandir in the town,\u201d he said. The report also carried a statement by Bajrang Dal Nalbari District Secretary Bhaskar Deka, who said that \u201cwe don\u2019t want Christian festivals here. Trade in any festival-related items of Indian origin. But we do not accept doing business with a festival of non-Indian origin.\u201d Reports indicate that in many other places, the Christian community faced violence and harassment from Hindutva rioters during Christmas celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAIPUR(National times)- Mobs, armed with wooden sticks, vandalised Christmas decorations in several parts of India, with multiple incidents reported on Christmas day. 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