Thursday, November 13, 2008

20 clergy had to flee from Orissa carnage

http://geoconger.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/20-clergy-had-to-flee-from-orissa-carnage-cen-110708-p-5/

[Conger] 13 Nov 2008--India’s anti-Christian pogrom has caused 20 clergy and over four dozen lay catechists to flee for their lives from the Kandamal district in Orissa, the Bishop of Phulbani told the Church of North India’s General Synod last month.

Meeting in Pathankot in the Punjab from Oct 17-21, Bishop Bijay Kumar Nayak told the 400 delegates to the CNI’s General Synod that Hindu militants had been targeting the clergy so as to “strike at the foundations of Christian life” in the Eastern Indian state.

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