UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA (ANS) -- Gospel for Asia missionary Sursen and his wife, Nirmala—along with two Bible college students, Jolen and Kushal—were beaten by a mob of religious extremists on October 5 in Uttar Pradesh, India. The attacks came as the group was praying before their regular Sunday morning worship service.
A mob of about 300 people descended on the Christians in an orchestrated attack. The extremists beat them up and handed them over to the police for arrest under false accusations of terrorism....