Overview
- Reports documented mobs vandalising decorations and disrupting services across several states during Christmas, including a masked raid on a Raipur mall and harassment in Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar and Kerala’s Palakkad.
- Congress leader KC Venugopal wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging urgent action, alleging a pattern of intimidation by right-wing groups and warning that official silence emboldens attackers.
- Kerala Catholic daily Deepika accused the prime minister of performative church outreach and faulted him for not condemning the violence targeting Christians.
- Assam Police arrested four Bajrang Dal and VHP members in the Nalbari school vandalism case, one of the few instances of swift action reported.
- Christian groups cited hundreds of incidents this year with very few FIRs, as international scrutiny persisted through USCIRF recommendations and a fresh statement from Pakistan’s Foreign Office.