A Gospel for Asia missionary has been beaten in India after sharing the gospel with a fellow passenger on a train he was taking.

Arun Brajendra, a native of India, was sharing the gospel with the person next to him on the train, when a group of other passengers appeared and began to beat him.

The attackers were anti-Christian extremists who had been listening the conversation he was having. The attackers tore his clothes and destroyed the Christian literature he had been sharing.

They kept on beating him until he fell down unconscious. The group were about the throw him off the train when another passenger intervened and rescued him.

Brajendra was badly injured in the attack, but has since become strong enough to resume his ministry work.

Despite further opposition, Arun has recently started a church where 40 people worship on a regular basis.

Brajendra, a native of India, grew up in a nominally Christian family. In 1997 he left his secular job and devoted his life to full time ministry before enrolling and graduating from a Gospel for Asia Bible college.

After he graduated from the Bible college he travelled to serve as a missionary in Haryana, India, an area noted for being anti-Christian.

According to Gospel for Asia, Brajendra said he considers it to be a blessing to suffer in order for the name of Christ to be proclaimed, and has asked for people to pray that more people will come to know Jesus through his ministry with his new wife.