As COVID-19 restrictions have started to lift in India, there has been a sudden increase in attacks against Christians.

Eight attacks in two weeks involving radical Hindu nationalist groups have left Christians in India physically beaten and have destroyed and damaged their property, CBN News reports.

The International Christian Concern (ICC) recorded the attacks, the most recent of which took place while a pastor prayed for a sick villager on June 21.

While in the village of Kolonguda, a mob broke into Pastor Suresh Rao's home. The 150 people dragged Rao into the street and beat him severely.

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"I will continue to serve the people of this region," Rao says.

A few weeks prior to Rao's attack, Real Peace Church in India's Tamil Nadu state was attacked by Hindu nationalists and burned.

Everything in the church was destroyed and the building was reduced to a blackened shell.

Pastor Ramesh Jebaraj says he has already forgiven those responsible for the arson.