According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), the planned ambush took place last Thursday (8th February) in Chapar village in the Sultanpur District of Uttar Pradesh, India’s biggest province.
About 40 Christians were attending the prayer meeting at a pastor’s home when it was interrupted by 25 Hindu militants, who subjected the Christians to verbal abuse and physical assault, resulting in six people requiring urgent medical attention.
Bibles and other church property were also damaged in the onslaught.
Efforts are being made by a local monitoring group to assist the victims in registering a First Information Report (FIR), which the police require in order to open an investigation.
However, the police are said to have demanded medical assessments of those injured before registering FIRs.
A source close to CSW has reported that the perpetrators had threatened to kill the Christians if they continued to gather for prayer meetings.
A similar incident occurred in Chapar village in November 2018.
CSW says Uttar Pradesh has witnessed a rise in targeted attacks against Christians in the past 24 months as a result of the false narrative about Christians forcefully converting people, which has been created by groups aligned to the Hindutva campaign of intolerance.
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