A church pastor and members of a congregation in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh were attacked and beaten by a Hindu mob on 14 May.
Pastor John Dawson said that a ten-strong mob ‘hit all the males present with the lattis [wooden sticks] so hard that we could barely walk. While hitting, they accused us of carrying out forceful conversion’.
The same day, a mob of more than 150 Hindus armed with sticks attempted to break into a school in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh where a group of believers were holding a prayer meeting. Two policemen who were guarding the gates of the school were attacked and injured; the meeting was subsequently cancelled.
