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Pastor Shot in Bomb Attack on Church
Compass Direct News reports: In an effort to stop conversions to Christianity in the east Indian state of Bihar, a 25-year-old ailing man on Sunday March 8 exploded a crude bomb in a church and shot the pastor. Police Inspector Hari Krishna Mandal told Compass that the attacker, Rajesh Singh, had come fully prepared to kill the pastor, Vinod Kumar, in Baraw village in the Nasriganj area of Rohtas district, and then take his own life. “However,” Mandal said, “believers caught him before he could do more damage or kill himself.” The 35-year-old pastor was taken to a hospital in nearby Varanasi, in the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh and at press time was out of danger of losing his life, according to a leader of Gospel Echoing Missionary Society GEMS who requested anonymity. Full … Read entire article »
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