They hate you because of me - The fundamentalist Hindus in India threatened the Christians in the village of Rajura again. AsiaNews.it has an exclusive interview with Bishop Edwin Colaço concerning recent events for these Christian brothers and sisters.
AsiaNews reports that a Hindu "holy man" (Munni) held a large religious gathering where he denounced the Christians and said they must force them to reconvert to Hinduism. The well attended group from local villages then went out and attack the Church:
For Bishop Colaço “this was very well planned by the Hindu Religious Convention. The Munni had done his homework well and knew the place. In a belligerent mood, he urged Hindu villagers to ‘kill the Christian Adivasi with ‘swords’. He eventually sent a group of fanatical followers to the village to force the Catholic Adivasi to attend the meeting.”
“They drove into the Christian village in jeeps, carrying swords and shouting fanatical Hindu slogans. But, [. . .] they found only women since the men were away at work. They threatened to kill the women if they did not follow them to the Hindu meeting .The terrified women were then huddled into the jeeps and forcibly brought before the Munni.”
AsiaNews goes onto report that the Munni then warned the surrounding villages that if they continued to have contact with the Christians in Rajura and continued to employ them, that they would be fined and ostracized.
Pray for the Hindus persecuting our Christian brothers and sisters. Pray for our brothers and sisters too, that they might be witness to the saving power of the Living God to the Hindus in India.
The Great Separation continues.
