India: attacks

Barnabas Fund  |  World
Date posted:  1 Jul 2017
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A church pastor and members of a congregation in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh were attacked and beaten by a Hindu mob on 14 May.

Pastor John Dawson said that a ten-strong mob ‘hit all the males present with the lattis [wooden sticks] so hard that we could barely walk. While hitting, they accused us of carrying out forceful conversion’.

The same day, a mob of more than 150 Hindus armed with sticks attempted to break into a school in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh where a group of believers were holding a prayer meeting. Two policemen who were guarding the gates of the school were attacked and injured; the meeting was subsequently cancelled.

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