Ganeshgudi, North Kanara - (Karnataka): Pastor P.R.Jose is in charge of Karnataka Calvary Fellowship Church in Ganeshgudi, Joyida Taluk of North Kanara in Karnataka, and he has been catering to the needs of about 70 members of his church during the last 13 years. He lives with his wife and two children. As thanksgiving and a preparation for ushering in the new year, he had organized a prayer service on the new year’s eve, Saturday, 31-12-2011 at his church and almost all the members of his church were present for the service.
Just when the congregation was fully immersed in the prayer service, about a dozen Sangh Parivar activists led by one Biju Nair and his friend Venkatesh,

forced themselves into the church and ordered them to stop their prayer service. They individually questioned them and began hurling abuse at them alleging that they were involved in fraudulent and forcible conversion of Hindus to Christianity. Then they also sent for the police from the Ramnagar Police Station about 15 Kilometres from Ganeshgud. After some time two police constables came to the place and joined the Sangh Parivarists in harassing the believers and threatening them with dire consequences if they continued with their conversion work. After forcing the believers to stop the prayer service, the policemen ordered the pastor to come to the police station the next morning and went away with the Sangh Parivarists.
The next morning, however, the pastor and some believers got in touch with the GCIC and with the help of the GCIC Coordinator also prepared a complaint against the Sangh Parivarists and the two police constables for trespassing into the church and for their high-handed behavior and then they met the Ramnagar Police Sub Inspector Babu Madar and briefed him about the whole incident. The Sub Inspector who received the complaint took a serious view of the whole incident, and more so of the behavior on the part of the two police constables. He gave the two constables a severe dressing down, and advised the pastor and the believers to go ahead with their prayer services without any fear.
We also recall here the fact that a similar incident had also occurred on the 31st of December 2010, and after the intervention by the GCIC and through the good will of the local leaders and the SP, the problem was resolved and the church was reopened. Praise be to God.