All hell broke loose at a Trinidadian church in the sugar cane village of Basta Hall, Couva, when a man, angered by the racket of worshipping parishioners, stoned a pastor in the pulpit. Pastor Narad Rajoo said he ducked, but two of his congregants, a blind man and his wife, were reportedly hurt in the fracas that followed last Sunday's Service. The man who came fuming into the church was Selwyn Sookdeo, a heavy-equipment operator who lives next door to the Temple Worship Church in central Trinidad. Sookdeo said on Wednesday all he wanted was peace and quiet. He argued that the noise emanating from the church's loudspeakers was unbearable, as he awoke to the screeching of the band playing out of tune. Sookdeo said he threw a rock when he was called the Devil. "I am a son of God, not no Devil," he said. But Pastor Rajoo denied calling Sookdeo the Devil. "I told him, 'I rebuke you in the name of the Lord'," Rajoo said he told Sookdeo when he came to complain. Sookdeo said: "I got up that morning to the noise. I try pushing the pillow in my ears. I couldn't take it no more. I went to the church. The Devil coming "As soon as the pastor saw me, he said, 'Look, the Devil coming. Everybody start with the Devil talk. I really pelt the stone. But not at anybody." Sookdeo said he left the church, but two men claiming to be police officers beat him and tried to push him into a car. He refused to go and ran away. Sookdeo also denied knowledge of the injuries suffered by Moongla Bisnath, 52, who is blind, and his wife, Parbatie, 47, the couple at whose home church services are held. Three months ago, police charged a man with trying to poison 30 members of a Pentecostal church during service. Worshippers have reportedly forgiven the accused, whose trial is pending. Reprinted from jamaica-gleaner.com