Christians arrested for 'forcible conversion' while providing aid to the poor
Christians in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state were arrested on false charges of “forcible conversion” while providing food and other aid to the poor amid escalating persecution in the majority Hindu country.
Morning Star News reports that pastor Perumal Kanagaraj and about 30 young adults from Viluppuram Church of South India were serving the poor in the nearby slum area of Anumandai village when a member of the Hindu Munnani extremist group showed up and began shouting obscenities at them.
“The Hindu Munnani activist soon lost his cool and started beating the youth missionaries while he continued abusing them in extremely foul language,” Kanagaraj said. “Within no time the crowd started gathering, and he held us up there and was not letting us move.”...