| Three Christian Pastors of the Church of the Nazarene in Nagpur were beaten up on February 8th by radical elements as they were screening a “Jesus� Film.
Rev. Ravi Shambhakar, Mr. Ramprakash Sahu and Mr. Satputeed were severely injured and some of their teeth were broken in the thrashing. |
| Pastor B. Anand (48yrs.) (Bakhthula) is the pastor of a church by name of ‘Bethesda Pradhana Sahavasam’ in Ambojipeta village, on the way to Medak, in Andhra Pradesh. The church consists of about 200 believers.
[…] The radicals took him to the forest area, about 6kms from the village and beat him with wooden logs on his face and his legs. Pastor Anand had seen that the RSS men had a bag filled with ropes and logs and knew that it was well planned as the ‘leader’ among the group had been a very active member in his church for the past 6 months. The pastor came to know only then that he had been a spy and was passing information and planned to harm him. The radicals run a well knit spy network to attack independent pastors. |
| Bro. Bhaskar, was saved about 20 years ago, after he was healed from severe convulsions by the ministry of a devout sister who prayed for his healing. Ever since, he has been serving the Lord by distributing tracts, which he gets from his pastor, on the streets of Bangalore. He has been beaten many times as he does this ministry. |
| On Thursday, March 8, police of Gia Ray province raided Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh�s house and “vandalized” his home and took him away to the local police station, said Cong Thanh Do, a pro-democracy advocate, who is also known as Tran Nam.
“Both Mr. Chinh and his wife were brutally beaten by the Gia Ray police. Mr. Chinh was released the next day but was continually summoned to the police station for questioning,” he added. |