Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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Published: Dec. 29, 2014 by John Dayal

ANALYSIS There is an element of irony, which has not gone entirely unnoticed, in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement that what the world knows as Christmas will henceforth be celebrated in India as "{link}https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2014/12/article_3557921.html/|Good Governance ...

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Egypt increases security for Christmas

Special security plans have been developed to protect Coptic Christians during their upcoming Christmas celebration Jan. 7. According to Agenzia Fides, Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim assembled a meeting Dec. 28 to discuss security, and "the plan provides for the distribution of patrols in the vicinity of places of worship and in some cases blocking traffic in the areas around the churches."

In 2011, a car bomb killed 21 people in front of a church in Alexandria on New Year's Eve.

Christmas in an underground church

Agence France-Presse correspondent Tom Hancock spent Christmas Eve with an underground church in Beijing. His report of a "joyful atmosphere" is sketched out against the backdrop of what appears to be intensifying government surveillance and restraint of Christianity. On cue, the eastern city of Wenzhou ordered local schools to abandon any plans for Christmas-related activities, which were described as "foreign festivals."

Source: Zee News

10 arrested for insulting Hinduism

When police in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh determined there was nothing to support accusations that 10 Christians had tried to bribe a Hindu into conversion, the Christians were then accused of insulting Hinduism. The Indian Express reported that police arrested the Christians -- five men and five women -- in the village of Borgaon-Bujurg, booking them under a law that forbids "deliberate and malicious act[s] intended to hurt religious feelings." The Express quoted a Christian resident of Borgaon as saying that "right-wing activists" threw stones at the Christian home and tried to demolish a wall.

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