Posted on 01/19/2011 5:48:48 AM PST by markomalley
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – “This was murder. My brother had blood oozing out of his mouth, hands and legs tied in an unnatural way and his clothes were torn,” Fides was told by Dushashan Pradhan, brother to Pentecostal Christian Pastor Saul Pradhan, 45 years old, found dead on 11 January in the village of Pakala, in Kandhamal district, Orissa, theatre for the anti-Christian massacres of 2008.
The Pastor was found dead in circumstances which still need to be ascertained, but the police called to investigate the case said that it would be “an accidental death due to freezing.” The official version is not yet confirmed by autopsy, which is awaiting results. Meanwhile, even before the results come back, two activists from a radical Hindu group, who were the last to be seen in the company of the pastor, were nevertheless arrested .
The pastor's family categorically denies the version released until this point about the cause of death. Nimata, the wife of the pastor, in great pain, told Fides: “He was killed because he wanted to reconcile Christians and Hindus in the village. He tried to do so until the end, even reaching out to those who had set fire to the houses of Christians.”
Father Manoj Kuma Nayak, a Catholic priest involved in the rehabilitation of victims following the attacks, after having visited the village in question in recent days, notes with worry that “violence could explode again in the district if the authorities do not stop the hate campaign.”
Even Bipra Charan Nayak, representative of the “Association of Survivors of Kandhamal”, believes that the pastor was killed by Hindu radicals who “are putting in place a systematic plan to eliminate Christian leaders, labelling these murders as accidents”. The leader launches the alarm and urges the authorities to provide adequate protection to Christian leaders. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 17/1/2011)
The minister was a Pentecostal. Don’t know if this is of interest to your folks or not.
Hinduism - the other religion of peace.
> The minister was a Pentecostal. Don’t know if this is of
> interest to your folks or not.
These hindus must be confusing the Koran with the Vedas. They are acting more like the Koranimal MoHamHeads than usually peaceful Hindus.
True ‘ministers of reconciliation’ often get grief from both sides. Sad.
Thanks. Sure. Will check it out.
Pentecostals are used to being in the thick of the fray; on the front lines—doing the nitty gritty business of The Gospel in tangible terms—wherever they are—particularly overseas.
I join in prayer for his loved ones as they deal with his homegoing.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
THX THX.
MAY EACH of us more soberly count the costs and stand up and be counted as unworthy yet afforded the
OPPORTUNITY
TO GIVE OUR ALL TO AND FOR HIM WHO GAVE HIS ALL FOR US.
What is that quote?
The blood of the martyrs causes the Gospel to grow?
Tertullian, “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church”
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tertullian
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (born ca. 150-160, died ca. 220-240) A major theologian in the early Christian church, known for his powerful denunciations of many influences he considered heretical, including the widespread admiration of pagan philosophers and many Gnostic ideas, yet in later life a Montanist, and thus he himself an embracer of beliefs that came to be declared heretical.
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Plures efficimur, quoties metumur a vobis; semen est sanguis christianorum.
We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.
Apologeticus, 50
I think that’s the tree of liberty. There is, I think, something similar for martyrs.
Thanks.
Dear brother in Christ, you are safe in the arms of jesus.
May your name be remembered as a true martyr.
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