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Suman Munda, 25, was found dead in Redhadi, a town in the Khunti district of Jharkhand state. He is the fifth Christian victim killed in India in the past two months. Between January 2016 and June 2020, there were 2,067 hate crimes against Christians in India.
“It is a matter of great concern,” Bishop Binay Kandulna, bishop of Khunti, told UCA News on Thursday, “because the state only saw the murder of a Christian man in the same district last month.” Indicating that the administration and the leaders must take action and take the appropriate measures ”, because“ some interest groups try to reach the minorities in the State to spread hatred among the various creeds, among the people who, instead, love peace ”. “We condemn the murder,” he concluded, “and we appeal to the administration to take severe measures against the culprits.”
