Beena’s* family became Christian through a pastor in a nearby village telling them about Jesus, but they quickly started receiving threats from their Hindu neighbors. The threats became so severe that Beena sent two of her three children to live with relatives elsewhere.

A few months ago, the persecution became much more extreme, culminating in a direct attack on them.

“On the day of the attack, the villagers called us to the community meeting and blamed us for breaking the village rule by leaving our traditional faith and not paying the annual festival donations to the Hindu temple,” Beena said. “They hurled abuses on us and immediately started showering kicks and blows.”

Villagers used bamboo sticks to beat them and some of them pulled off Beena’s clothes. When her husband tried to protect her, they grabbed him, tied his hands behind his back, and prepared to throw him in the nearby deep pond.

While Beena runs away with her eleven-year-old son, she heard their attackers shout: “There is no chance he will escape today. He will die! He will drown with his faith today.”

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