Source: Morning Star News, November 24, 2014
On November 9, police arrested [two] pastors and 41 [other adults with their children], including Muslims, who were listening to proclamation of Christ at a rented house in Nabinagar village in Lalmonirhat District, 300 kilometers (186 miles) northwest of Dhaka, after at least 100 Islamists disrupted the meeting and began “jabbing” at the church leaders’ faces, sources said.
The 41 people who were detained along with their children were released that night; the pastors of Faith Bible Church of God were not released on bail until November 17, charged with “hurting religious sentiments” and luring Muslims to convert by offering money. The church leaders deny both charges.
“We did not tell anything to anyone that might hurt religious sensibility,” one of the released pastors, Arif Mondol, told Morning Star News. “We did not offer any money to anyone to be converted to Christianity.”
» See also Christian School Attacked in Bangladesh (ASSIST News Service) and read about the borderland islands or Sundarbans of West Bengal, India, in Women on the Edge of Land and Life (Inter Press Service News Agency).