Sikh warrior group warned them against worship, conversions.
By Morning Star News India Correspondent
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A group belonging to a Sikh warrior order last week attacked a pastor and another Christian with swords and knives in northern India’s Punjab state for leading church worship in their village.
Four Nihang Sikhs, who as members of the traditional warrior group are permitted to carry such weapons, attacked Pastor Gurjeet Singh, alias Gurjeet Rinku, and his younger brother Gurdeep Singh on Thursday (April 18) in Sultanwind village, Amritsar District, a relative said.
The assailants first told Gurdeep Singh, and later Pastor Singh, “We have warned you earlier as well to not conduct church and not convert people, but you have not paid heed,” according to Daljit Kaur, the pastor’s wife and an eyewitness.
The four Nihang Sikhs found Gurdeep Singh standing outside the house where the worship service is held at about 9 a.m.
“Finding him alone, these men pounced on him and struck him with swords and knives,” Kaur told Morning Star News.
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