Hindu Radicals Ransack Church and Beat Clergyman in Karnataka
By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent
KARNATAKA, INDIA (Worthy News)– For two consecutive Sundays, church service was disrupted in Karnataka while clergy were roughed-up and arrested on false forced conversion charges.
Rev. Sangappa Hosamani Shadrak was attacked by 20 Hindu activists while he was celebrating Sunday services in the home of a parishioner. The Hindus desecrated the eucharistic bread and wine and assaulted Shadrak, who lost a tooth; he was then taken to another village where he was left tied to a tree.
After Inspector Choudhary freed the clergyman, he took him and some parishioners to a police station from where Shadrak was sent to Jamkotai prison for detention on unspecified charges.
GCIC President Sajan K. George said that for two Sundays in a row, church service was disrupted, Pentecostal clergymen insulted and churches ransacked.
“The aggressors walk free,” sad George. “Sixty-four years since independence, religious freedom does not exist in states like Karnataka, Orissa and Gujarat. This is a serious blot on secular India.”
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