Religious Persecution: India’s Dangerous New Normal

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The India we inherited may have been flawed, but it was striving towards a noble idea: that all faiths could exist in harmony and that all citizens could exist without fear.

On July 25, 2025, at Durg railway station in Chhattisgarh, two Catholic nuns—Sisters Preeti Mary and Vandana Francis of the Assisi Sisters of Mary Immaculate—were arrested while they were accompanying three tribal women to Agra for jobs in a church-managed hospital. 

The women were all between 19 and 22 years of age, and all three women had proper identification, letters from their parents, and paperwork detailing their employment. None of the girls had made any complaint. Nonetheless, the two nuns were arrested ostensibly for human trafficking and forced religious conversion.



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