A musical team from an Indian church recently travelled to Tikapur, Nepal, to attend a church conference in October. Hours before they were scheduled to return to India, police arrested the team leader and confiscated their van. In fact the Nepali police saved the lives of Christians by arresting them and taking their van. Several officers then used the van for a personal trip to Dhan Khadi, 150 miles away. Robbers attacked the van as it travelled through a forest, the team leader said. They had expected the van to be full of Christians and were planning to kill them and take their equipment, but police jumped out of the vehicle and shot at the robbers, forcing them to flee.
“Praise be to God who saved our lives,” the leader said. When he told the Tikapur police chief that God used his arrest to protect the Christians, the chief agreed that the team was blessed and decided to release them. The pastor then preached to the police chief and other officers at the station and prayed with them.
Source: India Missions Association – published in Religion Today, November 13, 2000
[Church group travelled to Nepal, arrested, van confiscated, saved their lives, shared Gospel with police]