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CHRISTIAN ASSAULTED AND KIDNAPPED IN LUDHIANA
Ludhiana: Five Hindu extremists on 6
October beat and kidnapped a Christian worker, Vijay
Kumar, at Samral Chowk in Ludhiana. AICC correspondent,
Rev Isaac Dutta reported that at about 7:30 a.m., Vijay
Kumar was distributing gospel tracts when five men
arrived in a jeep, forcefully took him inside the
vehicle and mercilessly assaulted him.
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PASTOR VARTE ARRESTED IN VASAI
Mumbai: Philip Varte, a pastor from Vasai
Talika of Thane District, Maharashtra, was arresed on
October 1, 2009. The police did not cite any reason for
the arrest. It is suspected that the pastor was arrested
because he was wrongly identified as the person behind
some fight that took place in a neighbouring village. A
few people had been injured as a result of this fight.
The police have therefore, it is said, arrested him
charging him with an attempt to murder.
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CHRISTIAN AGENCIES FOCUS ON FLOOD RELIEF
It is one of the worst floods to hit South India and
Church-based relief agencies are wasting no time in
mobilizing aid to the stranded and homeless. According
to news reports, heavy rain in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
and Maharashtra has displaced close to 1.5 people and
has killed at least 280 people.
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NEPAL CHURCH COLLAPSE KILLS 23 INCLUDING ONE INDIAN
In a very shocking incident, 23 people including one
Indian were reported crushed when a makeshift church
building collapsed in eastern Nepal. According to
reports, the incident at the town of Dharan occurred as
thousands of people gathered for a Christian convention
when the three-storey bamboo structure collapsed killing
dozens and injuring 63.
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CHRISTIANS BEGIN TO REBUILD THEIR LIVES IN ORISSA:
WCC
Christian villagers are rebuilding their lives and
relationships more than a year after being attacked by a
group of Hindu extremists in the eastern Indian state of
Orissa. A World Council of Churches (WCC) Living Letters
team travelled recently to Kandhamal, Orissa in
solidarity with the victims of the violence that broke
out following the murder of the hard-line Hindu leader
Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, 23 August 2008.
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HALF OF INDIAN STUDENTS DON’T GO BEYOND STD X
At least 48 of every 100 students in India pursuing
secondary education never go beyond that level, the
World Bank said on Tuesday, pointing out that the
country was doing worse than Vietnam and Bangladesh in
enrolling students in secondary education. “Thirty seven
percent students fail before the final examination and
11 percent drop out during the period (class 9-12),” the
World Bank study released said.
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FIRST LIFE SENTENCES HANDED DOWN FOR ORISSA KILLINGS
A fast-track court in Orissa state on Sept. 23 delivered
its first life sentences for those convicted of murder
in 2008 violence in Kandhamal district, sentencing five
people to life imprisonment for their involvement in the
killing of Pastor Akbar Digal. Digal, 40, pastor of a
Baptist church in Tatamaha village under Raikia police
jurisdiction in Kandhamal district, was killed on Aug.
26, 2008 after refusing the slayers’ demand that he
forsake Christianity and convert to Hinduism. His body
was reportedly cut to pieces and then burned.
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CHRISTIAN COUNCIL EXPRESSES GRIEF AT KERALA BOAT
TRAGEDY
A Christian council has expressed grief at the boat
tragedy in Kerala’s Idukki district that claimed the
lives of 39 people on September 30. According to
reports, the mishap occurred when a Kerala state-run
boat carrying 76 tourists capsized in a lake in the
Periyar wildlife sanctuary in central Kerala. The Global
Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) said it is “mourning
with the bereaved family members and friends of the dead
ones in this tragedy.”
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CALL FOR END TO CASTE DISCRIMINATION, EVEN WITHIN
CHURCHES
As the United Nations declares caste-based
discrimination a human rights violation, Indian
Christian leaders have called on the churches to confess
that the caste system has not been fully removed from
their own communities. The call came as senior
representatives of the National Council of Churches in
India (NCCI) met last week to discuss the churches’
response to poverty and exclusion on the International
Day of Prayer for Peace.
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NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER HIGHLIGHTS 'DEMOGRAPHIC
WINTER'
Oct. 8 /Christian Newswire — In a
front-page story in its October 4-10 edition (“Where Are
The Children? World Is ‘Running Out of People,’
Documentary Warns”), The National Catholic Register
gives a high-profile coverage to “Demographic Winter”
and its sequel, “Demographic Bomb.”
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This page is
updated on Oct 24, 2009 |
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