NEW DELHI — Hindu extremists in India summoned a Christian family Oct. 25 to a public meeting for a “compromise” on religious conflict but instead beat them nearly unconscious.
Irma Markami and four members of his family received hospital treatment for eight days after the attack which came 10 days after nearly all their neighbors beat them for refusing to renounce Christ.
The Hindu extremists who summoned the Christian family to the “compromise” meeting told them they were “not to talk and to promise to do whatever they were asked to do.” Soon after the meeting started at noon the Hindu extremists attacked Markami, his wife and three sons.
As they assaulted the family, which belongs to the Calvary Gospel Mission Moment Church, the Hindu villagers shouted that there was no place for Christians in the village and that they were going to wipe them out.
“The attack lasted for about one and a half hours and by the time they were rushed to the hospital the Christians were barely conscious,” said area church leader, Narendra Gachha.
About 10 area Christian leaders at the meeting managed to escape and ran to the Potteru police station. Officers arrived at the site followed by two ambulances. The five severely injured Christians were rushed to the district hospital.
They sustained injuries on their heads, faces and hands and abrasions and bruises all over their bodies.
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