2020 Victories: American Pastor Bryan Nerren Freed From IndiaBy ACLJ.org16091699888551609169988855
This is the latest installment of our year-end victories series looking back at some of the numerous victories by the ACLJ in 2020.
We saw one of our biggest victories in May of this year, when our client, Pastor Bryan Nerren – a U.S. citizen – was allowed to come home to his family in the United States after more than seven months of wrongful detainment in India.
Pastor Nerren is a loving husband, father, and grandfather from Tennessee. As a Christian pastor, he heads up the non-profit ministry Asian Children’s Education Fellowship, training Sunday School teachers in India and Nepal.
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Bryan Nerren spent seven months detained in an Indian prison, unsure if or when he would see his family again. The experience was horrific, very difficult, said Nerren. I was put in a cage, treated like the worst criminal in India.
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For 18 years, the small-town pastor from Shelbyville, Tenn., traveled to India and Nepal to spread the Gospel, cultivating a network of Christian communities across Southeast Asia. In 2019, he had amassed $40,000 for educational aid and anti-poverty efforts in Nepal. After a series of stops in India, government agents detained the pastor and his associates. They faced an eight-hour interrogation of TV-horror quality that focused on their faith. After lengthy negotiations, Nerren s associates were