Amid hundreds of Christians being harassed and arrested, often on fraudulent charges, under the anti-conversion laws enacted in a dozen Indian states, Christians in Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India held a massive protest on March 6 demanding repeal of the Arunachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act (APFRA) .
“Unless this law is repealed by the end of March, we will be forced to organize a referendum rally for it,” Mir Stephen Tarh, Catholic president of the ecumenical Arunachal Christian Forum (ACF), told to the Register on March 10 what he told local media during the protests, which were organized by ACF.
Tarh said that more than 200,000 Christians converged at Borum, near the state capital of Itanagar, and other distant district headquarters on the day, for peaceful protests, despite the government refusing permission for the ACF to hold the protest outside the State Assembly.
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