Pastor Bijay from the Malkangiri district told a group of persecuted churches in India how a group of suspected Hindu radicals (some of whom did not live in the village) teamed up last Thursday intending to kidnap Christians in the remote Kenduguda village.

As a result, seventh-grader Samaru Madkami was killed by the perpetrators, who were said to have cut his neck and crushed his head with a rock. The suspects are also alleged to have cut the teenager’s body into pieces and buried him in a pit. 

Madkami’s father, Unga Madkami, is a member of Bijay’s Bethel house church who also serves as an elder in the congregation, according to Persecution Relief. He is a widower who lost his wife a few years back and was raising his children on his own.

“Samaru was a passionate Christian,” Bijay told Persecution Relief. “He always shared from the Bible with youth and children from the village.”

In April, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom called on the U.S. State Department to label India as a “country of particular concern” for engaging in or tolerating systemic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom. 

Source: christianpost.com