A file photo shows thousands of Christians at a rally in Jabalpur, central India, to protest against religious persecution. (OSV News photo/Thomas Saji, UCAN) A Catholic community in India’s West Bengal state is facing down intense intimidation, including demands that Claretian missionaries ministering to the faithful in Nazat village abandon their work and instruct their people to return to their ancestral religions. The incidents follow a string of violent attacks on Christians and churches in the eastern Indian state…
