HYDERABAD, India — A hard-line Hindu has confessed to attempting to murder a pastor in southern India as the Christian leader was praying at night, according to police.
Pastor Madira Koti Reddy, who leads a house church in Rentachintala village, Guntur District in Andhra Pradesh state, had gone to his room to study the Bible and pray after eating dinner with his family March 29, his wife told Morning Star News. Madira Shanti said she was in the backyard with their daughter doing dishes at the time.
At about 10:30 p.m., the assailant entered the house and went to the 55-year-old pastor’s room, where he slashed his arms and head with an axe, she said. Reddy is hospitalized but is expected to recover.
Officials took a suspect into custody. The suspect, a devotee of the Hindu deity Shiva, confessed he attempted to kill Reddy because of the pastor’s routine sharing of the gospel in the village. Reddy’s son-in-law said the pastor had been the target of opposition in the past but never stopped talking about the gospel or handing out gospel tracts. (MS)
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