NEW DELHI, March 2, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Not finding the evangelist they planned to attack at home, worshippers of village deities in central-eastern India beat his mother, wife and 11-month-old son and destroyed a year’s food supply, sources said.
Podiya Tati’s mother, Jimmey Tati, has been in a hospital bed in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh state with a broken hand and injuries to her back and legs since the Feb. 20 attack with thick wooden rods. The six assailants left with threats that they would kill her son when he returned, sources said.
Evangelist Tati, 30, was away on a paint job in Kirandul, 93 miles from their home in Tikanpal village, when the tribal animists attacked his mother and his 28-year-old wife, Hungi Tati. They struck Hungi Tati with the rods on her hands, thighs and back, sources said.
“Hungi has not been able to walk since that day until Feb. 28, when she began to walk with much pain,” area pastor Ram Kumar told Morning Star News.
Tati said his 11-month-old son was in his wife’s arms as they beat her and was also struck.
“They did not care for the little child in my wife’s arms,” Tati told Morning Star News. “They beat my wife with the wooden rod, which hit my son on his leg and hips.”
In vulgar language, the indigenous animists asked them why they went to church and did not participate in the village’s religious festivals, he said….
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