Hindu Militants Attack Indian Pastor
While Police Turn a Blind Eye
ON DECEMBER 3, members of the militant Hindu organization Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) attacked a pastor in Hyderabad, India.
While Pastor Yesupadam was conducting a prayer service in the village of
Ashaiah Nagar, someone called for him to come out. Thinking they were calling
him outside to pray for them, he approached seven men who began to beat him.
The Hindu militants then took him to the police station where approximately
twenty other RSS members were waiting. Handing Yesupadam over to the police,
the RSS accused him of converting Hindus to Christianity. The police
sub-inspector said that Christians had become a serious headache.
Mocking Yesupadam, the police officer said, "Did your mother conceive you
through an English man or Telugu man? Are you a Telugu man? Are you an Indian?
If you desire to live, stop preaching about Jesus Christ. You know people are
killing pastors in the city but still you do not learn anything."
In the presence of the police, the RSS members attempted to apply a tilak, a
mark of Hindu devotion, on Yesupadam's forehead. When he refused, they
threatened to kill him and harm his family. The police did nothing in response
to these threats. When other Christians arrived to help him, they were refused
entry into the police station and were threatened with death if they did not
stop praying.
Pastor Yesupadam was eventually released but the threats continued. Services
were cancelled on December 4 because of the threats.
Pray that Pastor Yesupadam will continue to be filled with boldness as he
proclaims the good news of freedom in Christ. Pray that his courage will
influence his persecutors toward a relationship with Jesus Christ.
5 comments:
God bless you as you read and may the Holy Spirit of God give you the rhema of His Word in Jesus Christ our Lord, our Redeemer and Messiah. To know the Truth and the Truth Jesus Christ shall set you free forever. Amen. Amen and Amen.
In the 24th chapter of Matthew, it states that Christians will be persecuted for His name, it seems like we read something new like this everyday.
But we are not discouraged.
We continue to look unto Jesus Christ the author and finisher of our Faith.
God bless you Cindy!
Have you quit blogging? The name of this blog is awesome, it would be a pity to allow it to drown in the oblivion of inactivity.
No.
I have not stopped blogging.
"The Rhema" is the fountain of the Word of God and only supplied by the rhema of the Holy Spirit. And not for my own petty wisdom.
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