I Will Not Leave Jesus Christ : Indian Couple Banished From Village for Refusing to Renounce Their Faith
02-24-2021
A husband and wife who recently converted to Christianity were bullied then banished from their village in northeast India for refusing to renounce their faith.
International Christian Concern (ICC) reports that Jaga Padiami and his wife converted last December after they met with several Christians who were sharing the Gospel.
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Then last month, the couple was called to a meeting with the chief of Kambawada village, Koya Samaj, who ordered them to abandon their newfound faith, but they refused.
Christian women from Chingavaram village who say they were beaten up on the night of November 24.
Our first glimpse of Chingavaram, a village in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, was in the dark. It was early evening on November 28. The village was quiet and apparently peaceful. A youth sat in the verandah of the local grocery shop, browsing on his mobile.
“Yes, there was some trouble three nights ago,” he told us, pointing down the road. “The Christian houses are there.”
We found no one there except for a few old women.
The attack
The next morning, we spent two hours with influential members of the village: the sarpanch-pati, or the powerful husband of the female head of the panchayat, the patel, or the village headman, the son of the pujari, the village priest, and a teacher. We also met a leader of the Koya samaj, a tribal body, from the neighbouring village and a few others.