ICC Note:
The wife of an evangelist in India is calling on the global Church for prayer as her husband fights for his life. 47-year-old K.A. Swamy is an evangelist from Hyderabad, India and suffered a brain hemorrhage after being harassed by Hindu radicals and local police for hours. The incidents started when Swamy was confronted by radicals while he was distributing Bibles in a park. The radicals falsely claimed Swamy was forcefully converting Hindus to Christianity and after verbally abusing him, took him by force to a police station. The police then continued to harass Swamy until his brother-in-law picked him up. On the way home, Swamy suffered a brain hemorrhage and has been in a local ICU since.  
02/01/2017 India (Christian Today) – An evangelist from India needs prayers from Christians worldwide.
The wife of 47-year-old K.A. Swamy made the appeal after her husband suffered brain hemorrhage and subsequently fell into a coma following his arrest and temporary detention for distributing Bibles and other Christian literature, the persecution watchdog World Watch Monitor (WWM) reported.
A group of angry Hindus dragged Swamy to a local police station earlier this month after catching him distributing Christian pamphlets near a Hindu temple in Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad, the capital city of the southern state of Telangana.
Swamy is one of the volunteers for Gideons International, a Christian organization that distributes Bibles for free in various places worldwide.
Although the police released him after six hours of detention, the stress he endured took its toll as he suffered a brain hemorrhage on his way home and later fell into a coma. There has been no change in his condition since two weeks ago, according to his wife.
His brother-in-law said Swamy had been threatened by Hindu extremists before and taken to the police station for interrogation. “This time he just couldn’t take it,” Swamy’s brother-in-law said.
India has risen to number 15, up from no. 17 last year, in the 2017 World Watch List of countries where Christians are most persecuted, according to Open Doors USA.
The Christian organization rates the persecution level in India as “severe,” noting that Hindu extremists’ level of impunity has increased.
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