India Church Confronts Anti-Christian

[Keith]

India Church Confronts Anti-Christian Violence, Vandalism

By Allie Martin

July 20, 2005

(AgapePress) - A church planted in India by missionaries with Gospel for Asia has weathered yet another attack. Previously, angry mobs have descended on "The Believers' Church" at Lamding and dismantled its construction. And now, the Christian sanctuary has recently been struck by vandals for the fourth time this year.

This latest attack on the Believers' Church is being blamed on members of India's upper caste, known as the Brahmins. K.P. Yohannan, founder of the evangelical ministry Gospel for Asia (GFA), says these frequent assaults against India's Christians have only increased local believers' faith. "After all these things," he notes, "the believers decided that even if the police and the government will not give them protection, they will camp at the [church] site day and night and rebuild."

Yohannan says it is only by God's grace that nobody got killed in this latest attack, because "the news reached the believers and the pastor that this was going to happen." He adds that the enemies of the church, reportedly, "were actually coming to kill everybody, and [the church members] moved out of sight."

The GFA spokesman says the Christian congregation is determined to stand for Christ, even in the face of violence. "By the grace of God through our work among these people," he says, "a good number of these people have come to know the Lord, been baptized and joined the church." He believes they are firm and fearless in their resolve to go on spreading the gospel.

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[Leonard]

Remember to pray for our persecuted Brethren........

[Keith]

Remember to pray for our persecuted Brethren........

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It's so easy to overlook them, isn't it? "It doesn't affect me and it's not happening to me, so let people there deal with it." The fact is that God loves them and they are just as much our brothers and sisters and we on this board are to each other. I pray that people are not desensitized so much as to not let this touch them. These people are very real and have families and lives and dreams. We have so much that we tend to take it all for granted.

[yomotalking]

Remember to pray for our persecuted Brethren........

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It's so easy to overlook them, isn't it? "It doesn't affect me and it's not happening to me, so let people there deal with it." The fact is that God loves them and they are just as much our brothers and sisters and we on this board are to each other. I pray that people are not desensitized so much as to not let this touch them. These people are very real and have families and lives and dreams. We have so much that we tend to take it all for granted.

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Oh boy.

It is easy to forget them...isn't it....

Yomo