Missionaries, convert released after kidnapping

BANGALORE, India — Two Christian missionaries and a new believer working in the newly created state of Jharkand who were kidnapped February 11 have been released.

Sources said that Gospel for Asia (GFA) workers were abducted by anti-Christian forces who had threatened to kill all three. But two days later, the missionaries and the new convert were released unharmed.

In another incident, an evangelist from the Evangelical Fellowship of India was arrested February 8 after Hindu extremists accused him of converting people by coercion. A Catholic priest was attacked and badly beaten by the family of a teacher in the Raipur district of Chhattisgarh state on January 31.