Overview
- Congress leader K. C. Venugopal wrote to the Prime Minister calling the incidents a brazen assault on religious freedom and seeking immediate, preventive action.
- Assam Police arrested four Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad members over vandalism at St. Mary’s English School in Nalbari, linking them to arson and property damage.
- Kerala’s Catholic daily Deepika published an editorial condemning the Union government’s silence and questioning the Prime Minister’s church visit during the unrest.
- Reports detail disruptions and harassment from Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar to Raipur’s Magneto Mall, Jabalpur, Kanker, Palakkad, Ghaziabad and other locations during Christmas week.
- Civil-society trackers cite a multi-year rise in anti-Christian incidents with low FIR rates, as an October Supreme Court ruling warned against misuse of anti-conversion laws.