The following report is from Salem Voice Ministries and can be read in online here.
Changanassery (Kerala, India), SVM News, September 22, 2007: A group of narcotic sellers attacked Christian aid worker, who is also a prayer warrior in Changanassery in Kottayam district of Kerala, India on September 16.
Fatimapuram Parayil Thomas, 30, was severely beaten by the selling agents of narcotic distributors and admitted at Changanassery Taluk hospital with serious injuries.
The incident was happened in front of the KSRTC (Kerala State Road Transport Corporation) bus stand on Sunday night.
Thomas is a Christian aid worker and an active member of the Salem Voice Ministries prayer fellowship. He earns for his family as an auto-riksha (three wheeler) driver.
The narcotic sellers are centralised in Changanassery town and secretly selling opium, brown sugar and other drugs to the youth.
Thomas keeps his auto-riksha in front of KSRTC bus stand at Changanassery town to pick up travellers. He was alert against the narcotic sellers who used to lead astray and destroy the life of the youth. Recently he helped the police to catch somebody with narcotics. That was provoked them to attack him.
Paul Ciniraj, president of the Christian Ministers of the Churches of India (CMCI) and the director of the Salem Voice Ministries condemned the attact toward the Christian aid worker and prayer warrior Thomas. Changanassery police registered a case and investigating on it.
