The Catholic Bishop Conference of India (CBCI) has released an appeal to India's central and state government to take action against Hindu extremists, who have performed a series of attacks against Catholics all over the country. According to a statement received by Compass Direct, CBCI has demanded the arrest of those who are responsible for the attacks.

The targets of the attacks, which took place in June, were nuns as well as a number of children.

Most recent attack occurred in at the Chetanalaya Centre in Rajgir township, state Bihar on 21st June, when the group of nuns was attacked by 10 young men.

According to the Zenit, Catholic news agency, men were armed with guns and broke into the facility during the night. Director of the centre, Sister Rose Plathottam, said she was "sleeping on the terrace along with 11 handicapped girls, who had stayed back during vacation."

"Seeing nobody downstairs, the [youths] ransacked the convent ... to get hold of the keys to the rooms. Later they came up to the terrace, threatened me with a gun and dragged me to the ground floor," Rose said.

During the night of 9th June, two convents were attacked. The convents of Notre Dame in Raxaul, a small town in Bihar's Champaran district, was raided by 15 men before the midnight, men asked money from an elderly nun, who suffered serious head injury as she was beaten by the intruders.

The second convent was operated by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Sokho village, Nawada district, Bihar.

There were two more reported attacks in Madhya Pradesh in central India and Rajasthan in the north.

South Asia religious News reported that three men broke into the Maria Sadan centre, belonging to Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Grace on 12 June.

Men attacked two nuns and a maid with a knife, tied them to a bed, and ran away with their money.

The same day, in Madhya Pradesh, several men raided the Holy Trinity Church and threw rotten eggs and coloured water on a statue of Jesus. The same group of men attacked the same place on 5th June.

According to Asia News, about 2,000 parishioners from the diocese of Jabalpur met on 14th-15th June to pray that God would bring about a "change of heart in those who desecrated the holy shrine."