A group of Catholics in India have been jailed for three months and were denied bail again this week after trying to stop Hindu activists from disrupting Holy Mass. Father Arvind Amliyar, the pastor of Bandaria parish, in the Rajasthan state, told UCA News that the 10 faithful were denied bail again on August 6. After a scuffle ensued, the Hindu activists stood outside the police station, demanding that the parishioners be charged. READ: Indian Catholics arrested, denied bail after defending Mass for from anti-Christian mobBishop Devprasad John Ganawa of Udaipur stressed that if the police continue to act partially toward the Hindus, “every Christian praying in a church can be accused of religious conversion and put behind bars.” In 2025, two Catholic nuns were also arrested in India for supposedly forcing conversion on three female acquaintances.