According to an October 27 report by Compass Direct, on October 26, the tribal Christian Welfare Society was forced to cancel the last day of their three-day revival festival in Sagwa, a village in the Banswara district of Rajasthan state. For nearly two weeks, Hindu militants had been attacking Christians in the district. The violence escalated on October 25, when the revival meetings began in Sagwa. Over the next two days, at least fifty incidences of beatings of Christians occurred. The government ordered the Society to cancel the remainder of the meetings to avoid further violence.
Amoung those attacked in Banswara district on October 25, were a group of nuns in the village of Bhandaria. A youth on a motorcycle saw them waiting for the bus early in the morning and hurried to gather several other youths armed with canes and weapons. The injured were taken to Udaipur and admitted to the government hospital. Two of the injured nuns were reportedly over sixty years old.
(Sources: Compass Direct, The Times of India Online, Dajiworld quoting SAR News)
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