NEW DELHI — Hindu extremists have threatened four Christian women accused of “forced” conversion in India’s Tamil Nadu state, while two priests of a Catholic high school in neighboring Karnataka state have been attacked.
Albert Lael, organizing secretary of the All India Christian Council, said police led a team of four women from the Good Shepherd Community Church in Erode district of Tamil Nadu Aug. 5 to reach a compromise agreement with the person who had accused them of forced conversion. The women had shown a Christian film to about 150 people without incident. Under the agreement, the women are not to preach Christ to anyone who objects or expresses unwillingness to listen.
In Hebbagodi, near Karnataka’s capital of Bangalore, Soby Thomas, vice principal of St. Francis de Sales High School, and school administrator Vinod Kanat were attacked. The two priests were apparently attacked July 25 with cricket bats by a group of about 20 people outside the hostel for poor students at Kammasandra.
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