Priests assaulted amid ongoing anti-Christian incidents in India

Assailants stole around $3,400 during the attack in Jharkhand state.

Two Catholic priests are recovering from an assault by masked men amid ongoing reports of anti-Christian persecution in India.

Ranchi, the capital of India’s eastern Jharkhand state. Atul Faru/wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0.

The priests, Fr. Dean Thomas Soreng and Fr. Emmanuel Baghwar, were beaten with batons when approximately 12 men stormed St. Joseph Church in…