On 4 August in Maneswar block, Sambalpur district, Odisha, Hindutva radicals disrupted worship service and brutally beat up Evangelist Dickson Ranjan causing him major injuries. The attack took place at about 10 am when Ranjan was leading the worship service at the ‘Jesus Mission’. Suddenly a mob of around 50 Hindutva radicals stormed into the venue shouting slogans. They pulled Ranjan outside and beat him up badly and pressured him to sign a declaration that he was involved in conversion activities. Then they called the police who took him to the Dhanupali Police Station. The mob pressurized the police to file a case against Evangelist Dickson Ranjan. In the late evening, after he was released from the police station at the intervention of local leaders, Ranjan came home only to have his landlord ask him to move out the of the rental accommodation because the landlord was afraid of the mob.

On 5 August in Kushal Gaon village of Phulpur block in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, Christians were violently attacked which led to many being injured. The incident took place at Pastor Ledar's church. The pastor was arrested last year, and off late had been receiving increased threats to his life. He had been warned by religious fanatics in the village to stop all Christian prayers. Since the pastor and his church members did not heed to the warnings, the fanatics attacked them on the fateful day. Several Christians including Kiran, Amarnath, Sachin, Madanlal and Pravin were grievously injured.

On 12 August in Harpur village, Goriakothi block, Siwan District, Bihar, a man identified as Bablu attacked Pastor Chandra Shekhar Singh, 60 years, with a knife injuring him on his abdomen. The attack took place when pastor Singh was leading a prayer service on Monday morning. Bablu, 22 years old, is a neighbor of Pastor Singh and is in the habit of disrupting worship services at Pastor Singh’s Church by playing loud Bollywood music and Hindu hymns whenever the worship is on. On the day of the attack pastor Singh and the congregants were disturbed by very loud music so the pastor requested Bablu to turn down the volume a bit. Infuriated by this, Bablu took out a knife and attacked pastor Singh injuring him in the process. Fortunately, pastor Singh caught his hand in time otherwise the injury could have been fatal. Pastor Singh filed a FIR against Bablu at the Goriakothi Police Station following which some right-wing organizations have been instigating a movement against the pastor claiming that he is involved in conversions. The Church has been meeting at the place for the last 13 years and had around 75 members.