India: Prayer Meeting in Davanagere District Attacked

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent

NEW DELHI, INDIA (Worthy News)-- About 30 Sangha Parivar activists forcibly entered Immanuel Sakineh House Church and began attacking the congregation, alleging that they were involved in the forcible and fraudulent conversion of Hindus to Christianity; after destroying all the Bibles and Christian literature they could find, the activists then phoned the Basappakatte police station who immediately took Pastor Mounesh into custody for further inquiry.

Eight years earlier, an imprisoned Mounesh first accepted the Lord as his Savior; when he was released four years ago, he returned home determined to carry the Good News wherever and to whomever he could, but when he was released from the police station, it so infuriated the activists that they vandalizing his house church, injuring three parishoners.