Anti-Christian Violence in India Increases by More Than 500% in a Decade: 549 Attacks in 2025 and 93% Impunity, According to United Christian Forum - Gateway Hispanic

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The report published by the NGO United Christian Forum (UCF) on November 4, 2025, reveals a quantifiable and sustained increase in anti-Christian violence in India; indeed, it amounts to more than 500% over a decade.

Between January and September 2025 alone, 549 attacks were recorded, although only 39 led to police investigations; in other words, a 93% impunity rate.

These figures go beyond a mere sociological phenomenon; they manifest the progressive erosion of the rule of law in places where political power tolerates—explicitly or tacitly—a violence inspired by a religious ideology that has become the sole criterion for citizenship.

The report published by the NGO United Christian Forum (UCF) on November 4, 2025, reveals a quantifiable and sustained increase in anti-Christian violence in India; indeed, it amounts to more than 500% over a decade.

Between January and September 2025 alone, 549 attacks were recorded, although only 39 led to police investigations; in other words, a 93% impunity rate.

These figures go beyond a mere sociological phenomenon; they manifest the progressive erosion of the rule of law in places where political power tolerates—explicitly or tacitly—a violence inspired by a religious ideology that has become the sole criterion for citizenship.

Since 2014, when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power, the expansion of Hindutva—the idea of Hinduism as the exclusive national identity—has created a framework that denatures the essence of public authority.

Instead of safeguarding the common good, this revolutionary ethno-religious nationalist ideology transforms into an instrument that legitimizes certain groups while excluding or marginalizing others. This explains the persistence of the incidents, as revealed by the increase from 139 attacks in 2014 to 834 in 2024, accumulating 4,595 violent episodes over ten years.

The persecution affects a numerically vulnerable minority, as Christians represent 2.3% of the population—approximately 32 million people in a country of 1,400 million. The violence is concentrated, with 77% of the cases occurring in five states, namely Uttar Pradesh (1,317 attacks), Chhattisgarh (926), Tamil Nadu (322), Karnataka (321), and Madhya Pradesh (319).

Here, predominantly poor communities—many of them formed by Dalits who converted to Christianity in search of dignity outside the caste system—become the immediate targets of the nationalist ideology.

The legislative apparatus reinforces this dynamic. Twelve states, most of them governed by the BJP, have enacted anti-conversion laws between 2014 and 2024. Although justified as measures against “forced conversions,” in practice they operate as instruments of harassment.

The case of Jharkhand (2017) is paradigmatic; it requires prior notification for any conversion, imposes fines of 50,000 rupees and prison sentences of up to three years, aggravated for women, minors, tribals, and Dalits.

This is a use of the law opposed to its proper nature, which—according to Saint Thomas—consists in reasonably ordering toward the common good (ST I-II q.90 a.1), not in monitoring consciences nor conditioning religious freedom.

Within this framework emerge practices such as Ghar Wapsi (Hindu “reconversion” rituals) promoted by organizations linked to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological matrix of the BJP. Wherever coercion replaces rational persuasion, a moral disorder is configured that affects not only individuals but the entire social fabric.

The effects are visible, ranging from beatings, church burnings, rapes, expulsions of entire villages, closures of Christian schools and hospitals, to the denial of state aid to converted Dalits.

However, the Christian response has begun to organize itself. On November 29, 2025, a massive march in New Delhi denounced not only the violence but also the systematic exclusion of Christian Dalits from social programs.

In the words of A.C. Michael, coordinator of the UCF (United Christian Forum), the protest sought to “reclaim the dignity and freedom of worship guaranteed by the Constitution.”

This situation poses a clear moral dilemma because no State can aspire to legitimate authority if it departs from the principle according to which the law must be ratio ordinata ad bonum commune. A power that allows or facilitates religious persecution does not govern in accordance with justice, but according to the voluntas particularis of a dominant group, which Saint Thomas identifies as a characteristic feature of tyranny.

While India projects its geopolitical ambition, such as the desire to obtain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, a decisive philosophical question emerges: can a nation claim moral authority over the international order when it tolerates, within its borders, a disorder that frontally wounds human dignity and freedom of conscience?

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position of Gateway Hispanic.

About The Author Horacio Fernando Giusto Vaudagna

Horacio Fernando Giusto Vaudagna Diplomado en Filosofía por la Univ. Del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino (Arg.)
Lic. en Filosofía por la Universidad Católica de Nueva España (EEUU)
Magister (en proceso) en Filosofía Realista por el Centro de Filosofía Realista (Méx.). Docente universitario en Filosofía de la Historia y Retórica, también docente de posgrado en Metafísica.
Certificación internacional por IEX (Ecuador) con aval de la Univ. Católica en Filosofía Cristiana; Filosofía Antigua; Lógica y Ética; Introducción a la Filosofía; Filosofía del Conocimiento; Filosofía del Hombre; Filosofía Contemporánea; Filosofía de la Naturaleza; Filosofía de la Belleza; Filosofía Moderna. Conferencista Internacional.
Director del medio periodístico independiente LA RESISTENCIA RADIO.
Autor de EL CONSERVADURISMO EN 10 REFLEXIONES y EL LIBRO NEGRO DEL ECOLOGISMO.
Premio al mejor alumno de la carrera con un promedio general de 95.59.