A file image of policewomen keeping watch as Indian Christians demonstrate outside the Sacred Heart Cathedral following attacks on churches in New Delhi on Feb. 5, 2015. Minority Christians says they feel insecure under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government which came to power in 2014. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP)
By LiCAS.news
Aug 5 2021
A Christian pastor and his family received death threats from Hindu radicals in the wake of the reported growing incidents of attacks on Christians in the country.
An International Christian Concern report said a certain Pastor Dhiraj and his wife, Ravita, were told by a mob of Hindu radicals to leave the church in the Gaya District of India’s Bihar state or the couple would be killed.
“On July 27, men confronted Pastor Dhiraj and his wife, Ravita, at their church in Fatehpur,” read the report, adding that the men returned in the succeeding days to repeat the threat.
On July 29, a mob of about 25 to 30 people attempted to break into the pastor’s house and climbed on top of the church and parsonage building threatening Ravita with sticks and guns.
Pastor Dhiraj and other church leaders filed a complaint before the police but no action has been taken, said the ICC report.
Across India, attacks on Christians and their places of worship continue to be reported in greater number.
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