In an effort to make them flee their property in India, a pastor and his family were attacked two consecutive days and also accused of fraudulently converting people to Christianity.
Motu Sodi, a father of four and pastor in a village in India’s Chhattisgarh state, was assaulted April 13, along with his wife, sister and niece, Morning Star News reported.
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Accompanied by a mob, two men of a traditional tribal religion reportedly invaded Sodi’s home, which is also a house church, he said. The two beat Sodi and left his wife and two relatives with injuries.
The men accused Sodi of coercively converting tribal religion followers to Christianity, and said he and his family could not stay in the village, the pastor stated.
Sodi’s family has lived in the same house for four generations.
‘Land dispute’?
The two main assailants filed a police report against Sodi, and on April 14 they returned to his house and assaulted the family again.
Sodi said he then filed a report about the assaults, which police classified as a “scuffle” in “a land dispute.”
Sodi told Morning Star that other families in the house church were attacked in 2023 and 2025.
World Watch
India is No. 12 on Open Doors’ 2026 World Watch List of the 50 places most difficult to be a Christian.
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