In Gorakhpur,the power base of a firebrand monk, religious tension grows with Uttar Pradesh’s 40 million MuslimsPastor Ritesh Joshua had just called a tea demolish when he saw the men in the saffron scarves. More than a hundred, and some wielding sticks,had massed external his white stucco church on the outskirts of Gorakhpur, a temple town in eastern Uttar Pradesh. It was three days after Christmas.“They started shouting, or ‘You are converting people. We will not allow any conversions here’,” he says. They shoved people, turned over furniture, or told me,‘You are the main culprit’.”He will definitely favour Hindus over Muslims ... this is what he has been since the beginningContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com