UK: Rector beaten up ‘over his faith’
A clergyman is in hospital after he was beaten up in his churchyard by three Asian youths, in an incident which police are treating as a “faith-hate” attack.
Canon Michael Ainsworth, 57, asked the gang to keep their noise down but they turned on him, taunting him about his faith and hitting him in the face and body . . .
The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, Bishop of Hulme, who used to work with Mr Ainsworth, said: “I would want to see a condemnation of this cowardly behaviour by senior Muslims in the community and really hope there isn’t an over-reaction from the white community.”
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