BJP workers beat up Christian workers in Tamil Nadu

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Persecution in India

Persecution in IndiaAS many as 100 BJP workers led by two men identified as A Raja and Chidambaram beat up a group of Christian workers who were preaching the Gospel in Paganeri village of Tamil Nadu on April 21.

Paganeri village comes under Kalayarkoil taluk of Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu.

According to EFI, the Hindu fundamentalists beat up the Christians, burned their Bibles and tracts, seized their vehicle key and destroyed their megaphone.

The Christian group, led by an evangelist identified only as Jessudoss from Kandanur, had gone to the area in a van fitted with a megaphone. They filed a complaint at the Paganeri police station against the attackers, but officers took no action.

The Christians then went to the Deputy Superintendent of Police, who immediately sent officers to the site. They worked out an agreement between the assailants and the victims with the help of the village head. The fundamentalists returned the vehicle key to the pastor after the mediation. Later in the evening, however, the BJP members returned and beat up Jessudoss.

They apparently told him they would not hesitate to attack him again.

In another incident on April 11 in Emapur, Villupuram district  of Tamil Nadu, Hindu fundamentalists led by man identified as Balaji beat up a pastor and pressured his landlord to send him out from his rented place.

It was reported that Pastor Caleb was on his way to preach the gospel in the village when a group of fundamentalists objected to his preaching, verbally abused him and mercilessly beat him up. The fundamentalists further pressurized the pastor’s landlord to vacate the room he let out to the pastor as the Christians have been conducting the worship service in the same rented house.

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