Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Pakistan Evangelists Beaten at Muslim Festival




ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A team of Pakistani Christian evangelists was attacked and beaten after distributing over 13,000 Christian publications at a Muslim festival, the group supporting them said Wednesday, February 7.

Voice Of the Martyrs Australia (VOMA) said its workers were attacked in Pakpattan, a district of Punjab province, Friday January 26, but details of the incident apparently only emerged about 12 days later.

"Three members of the four-member team were roughed up by radical Muslims then taken to the police station where they were detained and questioned before being released,"
VOMA told BosNewsLife in a statement.

"The fourth evangelist, the leader of the team, was badly beaten by a mob of more than 100 angry Muslims, who then dragged him through the crowd before taking him to the police station," the group added. He was allegedly "severely beaten" and VOMA contacts took him to "a hospital for medical care."

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