“A systematic campaign is underway to denigrate and target Christians in India, with increasingly frequent incidents, especially in states governed by the Bjp party.” This is the denunciation made by Jesuit priest and human rights activist Fr. Cedric Prakash, commenting on the July 26 arrest of Sr. Preeti Mary and Sr. Vandana Francis, religious sisters of the Assisi Sisters of Mary Immaculate, along with a young man and three girls, who were stopped at Durg railway station in the state of Chhattisgarh. “The sisters,” he explains, “were accompanying three young women to begin work at a hospital in Agra, but were accused of human trafficking and unlawful religious conversions, and are now in judicial custody. It all began with a tip-off from the Bajrang Dal, an extremist Hindu group, which showed up in large numbers, intimidating and verbally assaulting the sisters and their companions—with the silent complicity of the police.” A video circulated on social media bears witness to the incident, showing verbal abuse, arbitrary searches and threats inside the police station. “This is a calculated plan,” Fr. Prakash stresses, “which exploits the rhetoric of conversions to spread hatred, gain political support, and push for a national anti-conversion law.” The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India has expressed deep indignation over the episode, and Archbishop Thazhath reminded that “sisters always stand by the poor and the marginalized.” Fr. Prakash concludes: “India is losing its democratic soul. It is time for citizens to wake up, get informed, and act—before it’s too late.”