International Christian Rescue Mission:Martyr's list

 On 19th May 2005 the brutal murder of Pastor Daniel,who lived in Asif Nagar, on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Pastor K. Daniel, who was found brutally mutilated in Hyderabad after his attacker’s poured acid on him.

• Friday, 24-June- 2005: Hindu Vahini activist Goverdhan has confessed to murdering two pastors of Hyderabad. 
• The special operations team of the Cyberabad police took Goverdhan to Shamshabad and Golconda on 24-June-2005 to reconstruct the sequence of the crimes.

 Pastor K Daniel (35), a resident of Asifnagar, was found murdered at Shamshabad on 20-May-2005 

On 24th May 2005, Pastor Isaac Raju from Hyderabad was asked by two people, Govardhan and Satya, to accompany them to the main road. He went without hesitation as they had earlier called him for a prayer in their house but had failed to come back to take him there. 

• Later the pastor was found beheaded, his body cut into many pieces and defaced with acid. The body was found in a jute sack in a cemetery. 
• The case filed in Toli Chowki police station is still pending. 

 The body of Pastor Isaac Raj (55), a resident of Raidurgam, was found at Golconda on 25-May-2005. 

The murder of Pastor Yesudas in Karimnagar.

On 9th July 2006, Pastor Prem Kumar of Kotagiri, Nizamabad district, was found brutally murdered, in an open place near the town. He was invited for a prayer meeting and on his way he was brutally murdered by smashing his head with stone. 

• The FIR is filed at Kotagiri Police station & received by Sub Inspector of Police Ch. Anjaneyulu on 09-June-2006.
• The body of 67-year-old Pastor Prem Kumar, a preacher from the Church of South India, was found Thursday, June 8th in a forest in the Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh state.
• Pastor Kumar was contacted by a young man requesting that Kumar lead a prayer service in the village of Rampur Thanda. Pastor Kumar was attacked with stones and boulders and his head was crushed beyond recognition. Kumar is the fourth church leader to have been murdered in Andhra Pradesh state in just over a year.

Both men were lured to a remote location in a similar manner to Pastor Kumar. The men arrested for the murders publicly admitted their opposition to the alleged conversion activities of the two pastors. 

Pastor Goda Israel Killed in 2007.

• Pastor Goda Israel (29) was found murdered on Feb. 20, 2007, in a canal near his home in Pedapallparru, Andhra Pradesh. 
• Pastor Israel, who supervised 15 churches, went missing following a prayer meeting on Feb. 17. It is reported he did not come back from the prayer meeting. The family and church members informed the local police station. 
• It is reported Pastor Israel had been threatened by Hindu extremists earlier because of his involvement in preaching gospel in the region. 

Israel leaves behind a wife and small children.   

Murder of Pastor Rev. B. Sanjeevulu in 2014.

• On the afternoon of January 11, 2014, four men visited Pastor Rev. B. Sanjeevulu’s home in Vikarabad of Ranga Reddy district, a village that is 64 kilometers from the state capital of Hyderabad, who served a group called the ‘Friends of Hebron’. The men said they wanted to “pray with the pastor,” but as soon as he came out of his house, they stabbed him several times and beat him with clubs and sticks. 
• On hearing screams, Ps. Sanjeevulu’s wife rushed to him, where upon the attackers tried to kill her as well. 
• Although she was stabbed, she managed to escape and survive. 
• The pastor was admitted to Yashoda hospital in Hyderabad where he died on the afternoon of Jan. 13, 2014, from his stab wounds.