CHANDPUR, Bangladesh — Nearly four months after Muslim villagers in a southeastern Bangladesh subdistrict furiously beat two evangelists for showing the “Jesus Film,” one of the Christians is still receiving treatment for nerve damage to his hip. Christian Life Bangladesh worker Edward Biswas, 32, was admitted to Alabakth Physiotherapy Center May 5. Dr. Mohammad Saifuddin Julfikar said that injuries Biswas sustained from the Feb. 8 attack in Feni district, some 93 miles southeast of Dhaka, had led to neurological complications in his hip. “His hip joint was displaced, and one bone in the hip was fractured,” Julfikar said.
Biswas said he and 21-year-old Dolonmoy Tripura first showed the film in a home in Chandpur village. The next evening, some villagers told them to show the film at their home; suspecting a trap, the two evangelists resisted. “They took us to a schoolyard, where we showed the ‘Jesus Film’ under tremendous compulsion,” Biswas said. “After showing 20 minutes of the first reel of the film, Muslim villagers again started beating us as we were lying on the ground. They punched and kicked us.” While 15 to 20 Muslims struck them, approximately 200 others present for the screening looked on, he said.
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