Twenty families recant their Christian faith due to extreme ostracism in Chhattisgarh
The local villagers in Chhattisgarh pushed twenty families, totaling 70 to 100 members of a church, to renounce their faith and adopt a tribal religion during the first and second weeks of January 2024, according to reports.
The pastor of Tirathgarh village in the Bastar district, Prem Das Andhkuri, told that 20 of the 50 households in and around the area—including five from Tirathgarh itself—converted to the tribal faith in early January after experiencing severe exclusion for six to seven months.
“The situation is very sensitive here. The exclusion is extreme, leaving the believers with no option but to submit to the villagers’ demand,” expressed Pastor Andhkuri, who was troubled by the growing persecution of believers through exclusion.
According to the pastor, the villagers who had coexisted happily for several generations had all of a sudden begun to protest to one another's Christian beliefs.
The ostracising trend is the same in Tirathgarh and a few other nearby villages.
Pastor Son Singh Andhkuri, Andhkuri's father who passed away a few years ago, established six churches in various areas. According to his son, he founded the first church in Tirathgarh 32 years ago.
“All but two churches are completely shut down because of severe persecution in various forms, including ostracism,” according to Andhkuri.
The pastor claimed that throughout the past seven months, the ostracism, which had occasionally lessened, has gotten worse.
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