INDIA: Pastor Beaten and Left for Dead Survives to Keep on Serving

Source: Open Doors, May 27, 2018

The Church in India is growing at an unprecedented rate, with village church pastors forging a burgeoning movement. In January 2015, more than 1 million people converted to Christianity at a single-tent revival event. Increasingly, the leaders of these churches are bearing the brunt of persecution in India, often finding themselves the first target of Hindu extremists, especially when extremists begin to see the impact of these leaders and their passion to share the gospel.

When Hindu nationalists learned Pastor Tilak’s ministry had led 40 families to Christ, they urged the Naxalites, a communist insurgency group in India, to silence him.

» See full story with picture and prayer points. This man went through a lot! Can anyone help us verify the conversion claim in the second sentence?

» See also the infographic Profiles of Some of Today’s Heroes of the Faith (INcontext Ministries). Note that it seems to be two pages long (two separate images).

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