I will die- But I won’t stop being a Christian

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****Christians persecuted in Orissa -India over 50000 permanently displaced many raped, killed and burnt alive.
tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne130908CoverStory.asp
“Lord, forgive us our sins. Jesus, you are the only one. Save us from our misfortune. Free us, Lord.” The words are tumbling out. Narmada’s children have joined her. She is weeping as she pleads for deliverance. So is everybody else. It’s a simple bond that no human wrath can sever, a woman and her God. “I will die. But I won’t stop being a Christian,” Narmada says.
 
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091402209.html
Christians Face Hindus’ Wrath
Violence in Indian State Tied to Conversions, Economic Strains
Babita Nayak, left, and sister Shyamala Nayak, who is seven months pregnant, were forced from their homes by Hindu mobs last month. The sisters are living in a crowded relief camp. “If we go back, they will kill us,” Babita Nayak said.
By Emily Wax
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, September 15, 2008
GHUMUSAR UDAYAGIRI, India – Babita Nayak was cooking lunch for her pregnant sister when a mob of Hindu extremists wielding swords, hammers and long sticks rampaged through their village, chanting "India is for Hindus! Convert or leave
 
This is truly sad, and I am sure Mother Teresa is praying from heaven will stop. God please protect all those who are continuing her ministry in India now from further persecution. However, blessed are those who are persecuted in my name’s sake for thine is the kingdom of heaven.
 
**Kandhamal beats Gujarat in violence statistics
Farzand Ahmed
Bhubaneswar, November 5, 2008

indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19402&sectionid=4&issueid=78&Itemid=1
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Clearly 1,000 deaths (official) in the entire state of Gujarat during fours months stand nowhere in comparison to 500 deaths in one district of Orissa in one month. Kandhamal is just a small district of the state.
A CPI (Marxist-Leninist) fact-finding team in its report quoted officials admitting that not less than 500 people, mostly Christians were killed in the month-long anti-Church riots in which VHP and Bajrang Dal played a direct role.
The report said: *“The official figure for deaths has been reported to be 31; however, a senior government official on the condition of anonymity informed (the team) that he himself consigned two hundred dead bodies - found from the jungle - to flames after getting them collected in a tractor. As per his estimates based on the intensity and pace of killings the number of those killed is over five hundred”. *The report signed by J. P. Minz was published in the November issue of the Liberation, CPI (ML)'s official journal.
The report further said: “In the communal fire two hundred Christian villages and 127 Church and prayer halls were either destroyed or burnt. Apart from this, schools, hospitals, hostels and convents also have been damaged. The incidents of killings, rape and loot also were carried out in addition to former incidents. The shocking fact is that all these incidents took place in full view of police and the police remained mute spectators”.

Regarding the role of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal the report said: “The victims in all the relief camps unanimously told the fact finding team that it is the VHP and Bajrang Dal cadres who have sowed the seeds of communal division in the villages. They used to organise meetings of the Kandha tribals and incite them to attack the Christian hamlets and also provided funds for doing this”.

Hitherto Naveen Patnaik believed in the official tolls of 31 but the CPI (ML)'s new revelation was likely to widen the rift between BJD of Naveen and BJP which hoped that killing of Swami and Hindu backlash would electorally help the party.

BJP is a partner of the alliance that rules Orissa.
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