Tuesday, October 14, 2008

DIMAPUR, NAGALAND (ANS) -- Thousands of people participated in a recent peaceful protest rally in Dimapur, Nagaland in solidarity with the persecuted Christians across India who are being targeted by the VHP, Bajrang Dal, and the Sangh Parivar organizations.

1 October 2008

Nearly a year of attacks on Christians have put India's leaders on edge, and the latest flare-up in violence drew an angry denunciation from the country's Sikh prime minister as "acts of national shame."

1 October 2008

THE continuing violence against Christians across India and the shocking apathy of both the federal and state governments towards the killings of innocent citizens by extremist Hindu organisations reflect poorly on the country’s secular credentials. Not surprisingly, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was pulled up by European leaders at the India-European Union summit in Marseille on Monday.

July 8, 2008

Kandhamal District of Orissa witnessed fresh violence against the Christian minority community again on July 8, 2008 six and a half months after the violent attacks of Christmas 2007 which left more than a hundred churches and institutions destroyed and thousands homeless.

UPDATED AS ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Following is the information that Evangelical Fellowship of India has gathered as of 12th September 2008 concerning Violence against the Christians in Orissa.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

ORISSA, INDIA (ANS)-The government of Orissa has issued curfews and shoot-on-site orders in an attempt to stop the violence against Christians in India’s Orissa state. Elsewhere in the country, Christians are protesting the actions of the militants who have been on a killing rampage since the death of their spiritual leader, VHP Leader Swami Laxamanananda Saraswati, who was murdered August 23.