17. Christians prepare to face increasing persecution in India

The increasing rates of Christian persecution has been arising in India recently. If India goes into the power of Hindu Nationalists government, Christian persecution will increase. The upper-caste Brahmins hold significant economic power. Many attacks have happened in the past; none of this is new. "In Kandhamal, Odisha, in 2008 attacks were carried out on "tribal" Christians and the agencies that helped them, with 38 Christians killed, 18,000 injured and 50,000 displaced." World Vision team was forced out of India. Centre for Religious Freedom  recently held a seminar regarding to the issue of Christians in India. A Religious Freedom Support Group  would be put into force in these six levels of attacks .

1) Spiritual support providing spiritual and crisis counselling and prayer support
2) Media and information
3) Legal rights- providing details of making legal complaints nationally and to international for a
4) Developing good relationships with the police for protection and action
5) Developing good relations with community leaders so that churches can be seen as a benefit to their communities 6) Direct relief – providing contacts for relief support and places of refuge

To look closer into the issue, the main reason to the increase of Christian persecution in India was due to the hope that Christians were bringing to the lower class people in India including Dalits and Tribals. 

Christians have hope to find the groups  "to address the spiritual, legal, political, social and development issues that such persecution raises."

This article was simple and informative. However it was not persuading at all.  Even informative essays should have a little bit of persuasion with the author's point of view. The author, who it may be, didn't use figurative language to entertain and to keep the readers on track of what is being said. It is too informative that it is soporific.Overall, the author could have added some rhetorical devices and made the article more entertaining, but  it was a easy article to analyze and comprehend.  

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