This week's persecuted church: India

Village leaders will meet church advocates after Hindus opposing the construction of a church tore down the partially built structure and stopped all work at the site on Saturday.

A 20-member committee comprising 10 members each from the Christian and Hindu communities in a village in Haryana state has been formed to determine whether construction should continue. Building work had started just five days before the attack.

The head of the Hindu delegation, Hanuman Prasad Bishnoi, claimed the majority of villagers were against the church’s construction. Bishnoi also serves as the Sarpanch (head) of Patli Dabar village in the northern state’s Sirsa district.

Apart from two people who have converted to Christianity from Hinduism, none of those associated with the church are from the village, he said.

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