Muslims constitute about 12 percent of India's population of more than a billion. UNI said Hindu families in Afghanistan would be required to put a two-metre yellow cloth on their houses, Hindus and Muslims would not be allowed to live together and Hindus would be barred from building new places of worship. Church leaders said the Taliban's dress prescription for non-Muslims violated basic human rights. Many Hindus had left Afghanistan in the past few years because of increasing atrocities against them, the bishops said. The church has been campaigning for action against militant Hindu organisations following a series of attacks on chapels and missionaries across India.
Christians make up just over two percent of India's population.
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