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Congregation fears police left their pastor to die after failing to intervene
NEW DELHI — As police looked on, a Hindu nationalist mob in India subjected a pastor to dehumanizing brutality, damaging his hearing in the process as they tried to force him to worship a Hindu deity.
The mob of 150 villagers led garlanded Pastor Bipin Bihari Naik, 35, like a cow by stringing his sandals around his neck and made him walk on thorns as they assaulted him while parading him through Parjang village, Dhenkanal District, Odisha state, on Jan. 4.
Along with tying him to a Hindu temple and forcing him to chant Hindu slogans, they tried to make him drink water mixed with cow dung, the sources said.
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NEW DELHI — As police looked on, a Hindu nationalist mob in India subjected a pastor to dehumanizing brutality, damaging his hearing in the process as they tried to force him to worship a Hindu deity.
The mob of 150 villagers led garlanded Pastor Bipin Bihari Naik, 35, like a cow by stringing his sandals around his neck and made him walk on thorns as they assaulted him while parading him through Parjang village, Dhenkanal District, Odisha state, on Jan. 4.
Along with tying him to a Hindu temple and forcing him to chant Hindu slogans, they tried to make him drink water mixed with cow dung, the sources said.
Continued below.
Hindu mob attacks house church, beats pastor and forces him to walk on thorns
As police looked on, a Hindu nationalist mob in India subjected a pastor to dehumanizing brutality, damaging his hearing in the process as they tried to force him to worship a Hindu deity