Posted on 11/08/2010 6:21:02 AM PST by markomalley
Anti-Christian repression continues in the Kandhamal despite the government’s claims of normalcy, a fact-finding team has revealed.
Although police contingents now guard several villages, Hindu radical groups’ social and economic boycott of Christians persists, the team reports.
The four-member group that visited Kandhamal district on Nov. 5 said lawlessness still prevails in villages with Christians living in fear and insecurity.
The district was the epicenter of unprecedented anti-Christian violence for seven weeks starting Aug. 24, 2008.
In Bodimunda village, the team visited a Protestant pastor who now lives as a Hindu. He said he was forced to become a Hindu to save his ailing mother.
In another village, the team found a pastor who was fined 1,051 rupees (US$24) for hiring a three-wheeler taxi to take a sick Christian to hospital. The taxi driver told the team that they were fined even after complaining to the police.
The team also met a group of distraught Christians in another house. Among them was a man whose two daughters are Catholic nuns. “We are in shock. Those slightly wealthy have moved out and others are left behind,” he said.
The man alleged that the administration and the police collude with the local members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS, national volunteers’ corps), the umbrella body of Hindu extremists.
The team also met a Hindu, who had to pay 5,000-rupee (US$112) fine for carrying housing materials for a Christian working with the Border Security Force.
The soldier’s mother told ucanews.com that his son left the village in disgust after the RSS confiscated the housing materials. “Our life is hell here,” she added.
Is this why O’Bama sees fit to engage India at this time - India is somehow more worthy of economic cooperation now that they've been ramping up their persecution of Christians?
That may sound absurd, but don't forget he's a Kenyan-born muslim.
There's a whole lot that doesn't get reported in our MSM...
Consider this:
Eventually, you start seeing a pattern here...not of US active persecution...but definitely of (benign?) neglect...
And not just this administration either, by the way...
Anyone that presents the gospel of Jesus as God and Savior will be persecuted in India.. They are considered a threat to the culture by Hindus and the Muslims just have their standard hate of Christians .
India has never really been safe for the gospel
This is true, particularly with radicalization that has occurred in recent decades under certain radical wings associated with the BJP.
But you should keep in mind that Christians have been in India since the first century. The Apostle Thomas originally evangelized that area. The Portuguese were utterly shocked to find Christians there when they went on their first exploratory trips there in the 16th century.
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