On Sunday 7th May , Pastor Ramesh D. Gopargode (34) and Pastor Ajit Belavi (35) of the "Friends Mission Church", Bangalore had set a church in Shahapur village , Maharashtra for the past 6 months. They had a small congregation of regular believers who attended the prayer meeting regularily.
7 believers expressed a great desire to embrace Jesus as Savior out of their own freewill.
The pastors of Friends Mission Church arranged the baptism of the 7 believers while returning after the baptism in the local river; they were waylaid by a mob of 65 RSS extremists.
The extremists questioned the believers and pastors of their activities. The terrified and poor newly baptized feigned ignorant about the pastors.
They abused the pastors in filthy language and also Christianity.After thrashing the pastors they dragged them to the nearby police station and lodged a false complaint of forcible conversion.
Pastor Ramesh and Pastor Ajit have been arrested filed under section 295A of the Indian Penal code.
Source: persecution.in
7 believers expressed a great desire to embrace Jesus as Savior out of their own freewill.
The pastors of Friends Mission Church arranged the baptism of the 7 believers while returning after the baptism in the local river; they were waylaid by a mob of 65 RSS extremists.
The extremists questioned the believers and pastors of their activities. The terrified and poor newly baptized feigned ignorant about the pastors.
They abused the pastors in filthy language and also Christianity.After thrashing the pastors they dragged them to the nearby police station and lodged a false complaint of forcible conversion.
Pastor Ramesh and Pastor Ajit have been arrested filed under section 295A of the Indian Penal code.
Source: persecution.in
