Christians, Muslims equally at risk in India: Bishop Azad.

LAHORE -- The Narendra Modi-led Indian government is not only denying Kashmiri Muslims their right to self-determination; it is also actively promoting persecution and violence against other religious minorities, including Christians, in its bid to impose its ideology of Hindutva, the senior most Christian bishop in Pakistan said on Friday. 'It's high time the world takes notice of the brutal violence being perpetrated against the Kashmiris and other religious minorities in the name of Hindu nationalism,' said Rt Reverend Bishop Dr Azad Marshall of the Church of Pakistan while addressing a press conference at the Raiwind Diocese head office here. Dr Azad said that over 1,400 incidents of persecution against Christians in India have been reported since the year Prime Minister Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party rose to power. 'We often receive reports of rapes, communal violence, forced conversion charges and other abuses committed against Christians in India. Cases such as these are becoming...