Source: BosNewsLife News Center
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NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife) -- Hindu militants have threatened to burn to death an Indian evangelical pastor and his family if they don't close their Pentecostal church and leave a suburb of Bangalore, India's third largest city, Christian supporters said Monday, August 20.
Pastor Koshy Thomas and wife Elcy Thomas, both in their 30s, and daughter Tincy, 8, and son Jason, 2, were moved to a "safe place" after receiving the threats this weekend in Yelahanka, where they have been living for five years, said Sajan George, the President of advocacy group Global Council of Indian Christians.
The pastor and his wife "have a church close to their house, and have been conducting worship service of the Indian Pentecostal Church for about one year," serving about 50 believers, he added.
The problems began Saturday August 18, when a group of Hindu radicals allegedly threatened and intimidated pastor Thomas Koshy asking him to stop his Christian activities. Militants of Hindu radical group 'Hindu Ikyavedi' "threatened to burn them to death if they do not vacate the house and stop worship," George said in a statement to BosNewsLife.