OPINION (Charisma) – Christians who worshipped privately in their homes in a village in eastern India were dragged to local leaders last month and forced to bow to a goddess idol, sources said, according to Morning Star News. The mob action on June 14 followed an announcement two days earlier by the heads of Mahuatoli village, Gumla District, in Jharkhand state, that 12 Christian families would be banished if they did not return to the tribal Sarna religion, they said.
Morning Star News reported that threatened with death, most of the Christian families have fled the village. “Threats have always been there in this area in Gumla District, but it had never escalated to this point that the Sarna extremists vowed to take lives,” said area pastor Boyen Munda. “They are not in the right state of mind now. The Hindu extremist forces have joined hands with them and have been inciting them against the believers.” According to the Morning Star News report, the mob of 20 villagers broke into the home of Jogiya Munda and pushed him and his widowed mother out of their house, the pastor said. READ MORE
