Idols Vandalised, Temple Destroyed, Yatra Attacked, Kashmiri Hindus Killed: Hinduism Under Threat?
ByKesh
Hindu Holocaust
In Pakistan’s Karachi, Holi was celebrated in all its splendour Wednesday. The Hindu community in the city came together to colour each other in various shades as a celebratory mood took over the streets even amid Pakistan’s many troubles. “Holi is a festival where the concept is about the victory of good over evil,” said Nandani Kothari, a women from the Pakistani Hindu community told the Associated Press.
In the wee hours of Monday, February 6, unknown miscreants broke into a Hanuman temple in Narapat Pur village, Chairaigaon Block, Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh, and vandalised the Lord Hanuman idol. A Shivling, Trishul, and a Nandi idol were also found to be uprooted and desecrated. The donation box was also broken and looted.
Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell told AFP that the decline in the number of Christians in the UK was ‘no surprise’, but added that spirituality was still the need of the population in light of the increasing cost of living and the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
It may be noted that religion is a voluntary entry in the UK population census. The question was added in the UK census in 2001. According to the UK population census data.
A mob has damaged 66 houses and set on fire at least 20 homes of Hindus in Bangladesh over an alleged blasphemous social media post amidst protests by the minority community against temple vandalism incidents during the Durga Puja celebrations last week, authorities said on Monday.
That may be an exaggeration, but there’s no doubt there has been a huge increase in the number of churches all over Nepal in recent years. The latest data from the national Christian community survey says there are now 7,758 churches in the still overwhelmingly Hindu country.
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