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Hindu mob attacks church in India

The Heavenly Feast Church meets in a tent similar to this one.
23 July, 2008
India (MNN) ? Persecution against Christians in India continues to grow. Now it’s affecting churches in states traditionally kind to Christians.
The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) (www.persecution.org) has just learned that a church that has attracted thousands of Hindu converts is now the target of strenuous Hindu opposition. The church, called Heavenly Feast, currently has nearly 15,000 members and is meeting in a tent in Kottayam, a city in the state of Kerala, India.
A Hindu group had their own prayer building close to the Heavenly Feast tent and started growing concerned when some of their members converted to Christianity. They have been hosting rallies for the last month and have partially destroyed the tent of the Christians, stopping a ministry of the church that fed 1,500 people every day.
ICC’s President Jeff King says, “A lot of Hindus had converted to Christianity through the church. That upset the Hindu radicals, and they were agitating with the local government to shut the church down. So the local government back in early July said the church had to c














