Karnataka Case Postponed
ICC Note
"The reason that Christians are being attacked in this way is that so many millions of people in India are so open to the Gospel,"
07/16/2010 India (MNN)-Last August, Hindu extremists charged into an 80-person training session for Children's Bible Clubs in Karnataka state and began beating various missionaries.
The extremists held the ministry workers for at least 14 hours. When police came, no extremists were arrested, but instead, eight of the Christian victims were taken into custody under the charge of "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs."
The eight believers were detained for a week until they were released on bail. A few of them work for Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Mission India . (For more details on the August arrests, click here.)
Mission India President Dave Stravers has testified again and again to the fact that the charges placed on these believers were frivolous. The ministry was hopeful to hear the same thing from a judge when the case went to court on July 2, 2010, but as it turned out, no one heard much of anything.
"The reason that Christians are being attacked in this way is that so many millions of people in India are so open to the Gospel," explains Stravers. "It's an unprecedented spiritual movement taking place in India . It's just a very small, powerful minority that are opposing what Christians are doing."
