A vigilante committee has been formed in central Bangladesh to stop Christian activities in the local community, three months after the construction of a local church was halted, it was reported in late November.
The committee is made up of political leaders, Muslim elders and an elected local government official.
In September, the government official ordered an end to the construction of the Tangail Evangelical Holiness Church in Bilbathuagani village, Tangail, about 100 kilometres north of Dhaka. The construction of the church had been started by a group of around 25 Christians, who had been meeting secretly for three years. However, five days later the local council chairman, Rafiqul Islam Faruk, joined by around 200 Muslims, went to the site and ordered that the construction be cancelled immediately.
