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****Nun burnt alive in Orissa
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Bhubaneswar, Monday, August 25, 2008: A nun was reported to have been burnt alive and an orphanage was completely gutted in Bargarh distric. According to unconfirmed reports the nun belongs to Kerala. Two churches were damaged in Phulbani town and two police outposts were ransacked near Nuagaon, while churches and prayer halls were attacked in Baliguda, Barkhama, Tikabali and Udaigiri areas. Normal life in Orissa was today affected with sporadic violence erupting at several places as saffron outfits observed a dawn to dusk bandh to protest killing of a prominent VHP leader.
 
Suspected Hindus kill nun in eastern India
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The Associated Press
Monday, August 25, 2008
BHUBANESHWAR, India: Suspected Hindu hard-liners set an orphanage run by Christian missionaries on fire in eastern India on Monday, killing one nun and seriously injuring a priest, police said.

The attack occurred in Khuntapali, a village in Orissa state, during a strike called by the World Hindu Council to protest Saturday’s killing of a Hindu religious leader and four others by suspected communist rebels in another district of the state, Ashok Biswal, superintendent of police, told The Associated Press.

Khuntapali is nearly 250 miles (400 kilometers) west of Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa state.

On Monday, a group of Hindu hard-liners converged on the orphanage and asked nearly 20 residents to leave the complex, Biswal said.They then set the orphanage on fire with the nun and the priest locked inside, the police officer said.

The nun died and the priest was hospitalized with serious burns, Biswal said.
 
****ibnlive.com/news/orphanage-set-afire-in-orissa-village-nun-killed/72093-3.html
Bhubaneswar: A nun was burnt to death and a priest injured when suspected Sangh Parivar activists set fire to an orphanage run by Christian missionaries in a village in Orissa’s Bargarh district on Monday.

First reports from Khuntapali village say the suspected Sangh Parivar activists first pulled out children from the orphanage and then set it ablaze at around 1600 hrs. The 25-year-old nun and the priest were trapped inside. The priest is now recovering in a hospital.
 
****Orissa: nun raped by Hindu extremists, another possibly burnt alive in orphanage
by Nirmala Carvalho
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Bubaneshwar (AsiaNews) – A Catholic nun nay have been burnt alive by a group of Hindu fundamentalists who stormed the orphanage she ran in the district of Bargarh (Orissa). Fr Ajay Singh, from the diocese of Bubaneshwar, was however unable to confirm the report.

By contrast, a nun at a Bubaneshwar’s social centre was raped by a group of Hindu extremists before the building housing the facility was set on fire. This has further extended the already long list of violent anti-Christian acts.

Sources also told AsiaNews that elsewhere one priest was wounded and two other were abducted.
 
Thanks for bringing these atrocities to our attention. May the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Their deaths not have been in vain. May God protect the Church in India.

Is there some practical way we can help, in addition to offering our prayers? Are there relief funds being set up to rebuild the destroyed property? These places need not just to be rebuilt, but rebuilt bigger and better than before!
 
😦 This is truly shocking 😦

I am going to sound so utterly stupid and naieve and ignorant but I had no idea that catholic religious people were being killed like that in places around the world. 😦 I thought the world liked catholic missions.
 
ORISSA ANTI CHRISTIAN VIOLENCE UPDATE
  1. NUN REPORTED BURNT ALIVE: A Christian woman, possibly a nun, was reported burnt alive on 25th August 2008 by a group of Vishwa Hindu Parishad mob which stormed the orphanage she ran in the district of Bargarh (Orissa). Police Superintendent Ashok Biswall has told this to news reporters. A priest who was at the orphanage was also badly hurt and is now being treated in hospital for multiple burns.
  2. NUN RAPED: A young Catholic Nun of the Cuttack Bhubaneswar diocese working Jan Vikas Kendra, the Social Service Centre at Nuagaon in Kandhamal was reportedly gang raped on 24th August 2008 by groups of Hindutva extremists before the building itself was destroyed.
  3. SENIOR PRIEST AND NUN INJURED: Fr Thomas, director of the Diocesan Pastoral Centre in Kanjimendi, less than a kilometer away from the Social Service Centre, and another Nun were injured when the centre was attacked. They were taken to the police station in a disheveled state as the armed mob bayed for their blood. The Pastoral centre was then set afire.
  4. BALLIGUDA CHURCH BUILDINGS DESTROYED AGAIN: On 24th August 2008 evening lynch mobs at the block headquarters of Balliguda, in the very heart of Kandhamal district, which had seen much violence between 24th and 26th December 2007, attacked and destroyed a Presbytery, convent and hostel damaging the properties.
  5. The mobs in Balliguda caught hold of two boys of the Catholic
    hostel and tonsured their heads.
  6. PHULBANI CHURCH DAMAGED: On 25th august 2008 morning followers of the late Lakshmanananda Saraswati damaged the Catholic Church in Phulbani, the district headquarter town.
  7. MOTHER TERESA BROTHERS ASHRAM ATTACKED: mobs attacked the Mother Teresa Brothers’ residence and hospital in Srasanada, destroyed once before and rebuilt two months ago, and beat up the patients.
    Fundamentalists have targeted Priests, religious and also the Faithful in Pobingia also.
  8. BHUBANESWAR BISHOP’S HOUSE ATTACKED: On the morning of 25th August 2008, violent mobs made several attempts to enter the compounds of Catholic Church and Archbishop’s house in the heart of the Capital of the State of Orissa. They could not enter because of the police presence. They threw stones at the guesthouse of Archbishop’s House, damaging windows.
  9. DUBURI PARISH; Another group of fundamentalists entered presbytery in Duburi parish, managed by the SVDs and destroyed and damaged property. Two priests of the parish are missing.
  10. Mr. Jamaj Pariccha, Director of Gramya Pragati, is attacked and his property, vehicle etc. damaged, burnt and looted.
  11. A Baptist Church in Akamra Jila in Bhubaneswar is also damaged.
  12. Christian institutions like St. Arnold’s School (Kalinga Bihar),
    AND NISWASS report some damage.
  13. BOUDH DISTRICT [Adjoining Kandhamal]: Fundamentalists enter the Catholic parish church and destroy property. People are fleeing to safer places. But nothing seems safe.
  14. Muniguda Catholic Fathers and Nuns’ residence have been damaged.
  15. Sambalpur HM Sister’s residence (Ainthapalli) has suffered
    damage.
  16. Padanpur: One priest is attacked and admitted to a hospital.
    Hostel boys and the in charge have moved away from the place.
  17. Madhupur Catholic Church currently under attack.
  18. SMALL CHURCHES: Attempted violence on small churches in various districts, including Padampur, Sambalpur near GM College, Talsera, Dangsoroda, Narayanipatara, Muniguda, Tummiibandh, Tangrapada, Phulbani, Balliguda, Kalingia, Chakapad, Srasanranda.
  19. VILLAGE CHRISTIAN HOUSES ATTACKED: Houses attacked on forest hamlets of Balliguda, Kanjamandi Nuaguam (K.Nuaguam), Tiangia (G.Udayagiri) , Padangiri, Tikabali.
  20. KALAHANDI DISTRICT: houses burnt even though the district is more than 300 kilometers from the place where Swami Lakshmanananda was killed.
  21. Pastor Sikandar Singh of the Pentecostal Mission beaten up and his house burnt in Bhawanipatna.
  22. Kharihar: 3 Christian shops were looted and burnt. Pastor Alok Das
    and Pastor I M Senapati beaten up.
  23. Aampani: Pastor David Diamond Pahar, Pastor Pravin Ship, Pastor Pradhan and Pastor Barik beaten up and chased away with their families.
  24. Naktikani: Mob surrounds village to attack Christians. The
    government has sent forces, it is reported.
[This list is compiled with assistance from Archbishop’s House,
Bhubaneswar and other sources]

.,._
 
seekerz said:
Thanks for bringing these atrocities to our attention. May the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Their deaths not have been in vain. May God protect the Church in India.

Is there some practical way we can help, in addition to offering our prayers? Are there relief funds being set up to rebuild the destroyed property? These places need not just to be rebuilt, but rebuilt bigger and better than before!
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Dear Seekrz
Thanks for the concern. I know that you must be praying hard.
The only way people can help is to get assistance by way of solidarity, calling the Archdiocese as I have done, comforting them and getting media to report fairly. In the end the biased media of India will put down the Hindu version of events and only the Catholic media will report on this which no one even in India has access to.
God bless
Derrick
 
From today’s Liturgy of the Hours:

Prayers and Intercessions

Christ the Lord lives among us and we are his adopted people. Let us praise him and offer him our prayers:
  • Lord, listen to us and show your greatness.
Lord, king and ruler of the nations, guide all peoples and all who exercise power
that they may work together for the common good, according to your laws.
You conquered our captivity and took it prisoner:
restore to freedom our brethren who are captive in body or in soul.
May our young grow up irreproachable in your sight
and may they wholeheartedly follow you when you call.
Make children follow your example
and move steadily forward in wisdom and grace.
Take up the dead into your eternal kingdom
where we hope one day to rule at your side.

Our Father, who art in Heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those that trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
 
Dear Phoenix
Thanks for your prayers. In all my calls to Orissa and to several priests I just ask - How are you coping? and most of the time they seem to have faith that if it is the Lords work he will preserve it and make it grow.
But things are bad on the ground, please keep praying
God bless
Derrick
 
****BUBANESHWAR (AsiaNews) – A Catholic nun was burnt alive by a group of Hindu fundamentalists who stormed the orphanage she ran in the district of Bargarh (Orissa), this according to Police Superintendent Ashok Biswall. Another nun from Bubaneshwar’s Social Centre was gang raped by groups of Hindu extremists before the building housing the facility was set on fire. Sources also told AsiaNews that elsewhere one priest was wounded and two other were abducted. The list of violent anti-Christian acts is thus getting longer.
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ibnlive.com/news/orissa-2-more-killed-cops-unable-to-reach-village–cj-pics/72191-3.html
Bhubaneswar: Security forces in Orissa were on Tuesday desperately trying to reach a village in the communally volatile Kandhamal district where two people were believed to have been killed in clashes triggered by the murder of a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader last week.

The killings had taken place on Monday, when a woman was burnt alive after mobs torched an orphanage in Khuntpali village in Bargarh district, about 300 km from Bhubaneswar, and a paralytic patient was lynched and also burnt
 
asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13060&size=A
Hindus torch Christian homes and churches, three die asphyxiated By Nirmala Carvalho
Father Dibakar Pariccha, from Justice and Peace’s Bubaneshwar chapter, has drawn up a list of violent episodes (reported elsewhere). He described to AsiaNews the urgency of the situation, saying that “throughout the state, especially in the district of Kandhamal, many families are without food, shelter and in some cases even clothing. Last night many people were hiding in the forests out in the open as heavy rain poured out of the sky. Conditions for children and women are indescribable: children cannot go to school and are traumatised by the violence; women are exhausted by the destruction of their homes and families.”
 
Hundreds of police were deployed in three towns in Orissa’s rural Kandhamal district to end two days of violence in which suspected Hindu extremists set fire to an orphanage run by Christian missionaries, burning a woman to death.Several children were also injured in the attack on the orphanage.

Four other Christians also died inside buildings torched by suspected Hindu extremists in violence that erupted after the killing on Saturday of one of their leaders, Swami Laxamanananda Saraswati.

Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini condemned the “grave and inexcusable acts of violence” on behalf of the Italian government.
adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2437460497
 
****“Our Women religious have given their lives to empower the same people who are now assaulting them,” he said. “Our nuns have given dignity to these people through the social ministry of the Church and today they are brutalised by this senseless mob. This is diabolical.”
Mother Teresa’s successor Sister Nirmala Joshi says that one cannot be disciple of Christ without paying the price, on the Cross.

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SHOCKING NEWS FROM INE

**In a high level meeting of Orissa Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), VHP (Viswa Hindu Parishad), Bajrang Dal and RSS (Rastriya Swayam Sevak Sangh) held in Rourkela on 24th August, they have made a firm resolution to continue the work of demolishing all the Christian Institutions and Churches in the State, especially in the district of Sundargarh. They have planned to start the attacks in the western Orissa from Wednesday (27th August). **This is the message given to us by Mr. Patric Minz – a police who went in civil dress to the meeting.

Our Confrere, Fr. Edward Secqueira, SVD in Padampur (Bargarh District) was very badly beaten up and his condition is very serious. He is in Padampur Hospital.

(1) Another confrere, Fr. Simon Lakra and another Jesuit priest who was with him in Duburi, were chased, caught and taken by the miscreants. No further news about them.

(2) The Catholic Church of Madhupur and the HM’s Convent in Madhupur were set on fire today (25th). The Father with the hostel boys and the sisters with the Hostel Boys have run away into villages and are hiding in the people’s homes.

(3) The Pastoral Centre, at Konjamendi, a huge building of the Archdiocese of Bhubaneswar is totally demolished by blasting it with bombs,

(4) Jana Vikas Kedra, a social service centre at Konjamendi was also set on fire.

(5) The director of the Pastoral centre, Fr. Thomas Chellan and Sr. Meena Barwa, HM who ran away and hid themselves in a Catholic house, were caught today and beaten up thoroughly; Fr. Thomas Chellan was stripped and paraded and both of them are handed over to the Police.

(6) Few Village Churches in Rourkela diocese have been torched.

Please advise our Bishops and Major Superiors to seek the help of the All India Bishops and in solidarity with the suffering of Khandhamal District, they could call for a close of all the educational institutions in the country. The earlier we do the better we can spend time can get the sympathy and the support of the non-Christians in the State.

Thanking you and requesting your prayers,

Fr. Joseph Amalan, SVD
 
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