Posted on 09/03/2008 7:23:12 AM PDT by Publius804
INDIA
Orissa: six more churches set on fire, hundreds of homes destroyed
More and more Christian villages are being plundered and set on fire as police remains idle. Death threats are made against Christians if they practice their faith. but according to the government of Orissa the situation is “under control”.
Bhubaneshwar (AsiaNews) – The anti-Christian pogrom in the state of Orissa shows no signs of a let-up. In the past three days six churches have been attacked, set on fire and destroyed; hundreds of Christian-owned houses have been devastated and then torched. The number of refugees and missing people is rising.
According to reports that have reached AsiaNews from the diocese of Bhubaneshwar, the Catholic church in Padunbadi was attacked last night, plundered and torn down. Even the church wall was razed to the ground. The Catholic church in the village of Kakadabadi was also attacked yesterday and torched.
On Monday the Baptist church in Durgaprasad, the Catholic church in Chadiapally, and both the Catholic and Baptist churches in Balligada were set on fire and destroyed.
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This is why we have the 2nd...no one messes with an armed people.
I don’t know if this is true or not, but I have been told that some of these Christians are actually Maoist rebels that are only “Christian” on paper. (Not endorsing any violence in any way.)
Lord, God, please have mercy on your Believers.
We forgive the perpetrators but also ask that all authorities acting and in-acting in behalf of the perpetrators
all such authorities
be very humiliatingly removed from office.
Where there is demonic stubbornness, may their removal be dramatic and public.
May they never have anything to do in public life ever again.
May they speedily reap what they have sown.
In Jesus’ Name.
May all who care to agree in prayer with something like the above, please do so.
Prayers for these people of India. Also we pray for the re-establishment of their churches.
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