Wednesday, September 10, 2008

BHUBANESWAR, India (BP): Violence against Christians in India's Orissa state persisted more than two weeks after the Aug. 23 assassination of a Hindu swami sparked mob attacks on Christian villages, churches and homes.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

New Delhi: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday asked the central government to immediately put the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on the watch list of organisations indulging in terrorist-like activities.

Monday, September 8, 2008

SANTA ANA, CA (ANS) -- Following the assassination of Hindu leader Swami Laxmananda Saraswati on August 23, 2008 in Orissa State, India, Hindu leaders accused Christians and called for revenge.

Tuesday, September 8, 2008

NEW DELHI (ANS) -- Still reeling from violence in Orissa state, India’s Christians suffered major blows in two other states over the weekend.

Tuesday, September 8, 2008

Bhubaneswar: THE mob appeared an hour after sunset, armed with axes, clubs and paraffin. The carnage that followed would have been much worse if the Christians of Gadragaon, a remote village in northeast India, had not been warned by text message: "The Hindus are coming to kill you."

Tuesday, September 7, 2008

When masked assailants shot and killed 84-year-old Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati and four others inside his ashram at Jalespatta what followed was inevitable. The August 23 murders turned a smouldering bushfire into a raging inferno that spread out of control beyond Orissa’s viciously polarised Kandhamal district.