PRATAPGARH, India — Hindu extremists in Pratapgarh, Rajasthan, have threatened to kill a pastor after beating his family and violating an agreement to stop attacking them, the pastor said.
Pastor Shantilal Ninama of Believers Church said the Hindu extremists beat his 65-year-old father until he fell unconscious in one of the attacks in June.
On the evening of June 8, after agreeing to do no further harm to Ninama and his family in exchange for his dropping police charges he’d filed over a previous attack, the enraged Hindu extremists stormed into his home and began beating and stoning his father, sister, wife and three children, he said.
As the pastor sought police help, his father fell unconscious and his wife and two of his children ran out into the darkness. Another daughter hid beneath a bed, and his sister escaped and hid in a valley.
Pastor Prabhatkar Malladi, secretary of the Udaipur Diocese in Rajasthan, said the extremists were threatening to kill the pastor.
“The villagers are not allowing any Christian leaders to enter into the village to meet Pastor Ninama, but we are taking necessary steps to help the pastor and one advocate is now taking up the case,” he said.
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