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JMM Urgent Prayer] November 12, 2005 Dear Friend in Christ, I am asking you today to pray for an extremely critical situation. More than 60 new believers in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh are being threatened with death if they do not convert back to Hinduism! It is not enough that they escaped the spiritual bondage that has oppressed their people for centuries, but now radical Hindus have threatened to burn alive any Christians who do not return to their former slavery. Here is what happened: On November 4, a pastor was attacked and severely beaten by a group...

Sunday, November 13, 2005 FAITH UNDER FIRE Anti-Christian rampage by 2,000 India Muslims Organized vandals in buses, burn churches, convent, schools, homes of pastors, priests Posted: November 13, 2005 4:59 p.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com They came in buses to the small village of Sangla Hill in the Nankana district of Punjab in India. Some 2,000 organized Muslims first vandalized three churches, a nuns' convent, two Catholic schools, the houses of a Protestant pastor and a Catholic priest, a girls' hostel and some Christian homes, according to Asia News. Then they burned them to the ground, while about 450 Christian...

They came in buses to the small village of Sangla Hill in the Nankana district of Punjab in India. Some 2,000 organized Muslims first vandalized three churches, a nuns' convent, two Catholic schools, the houses of a Protestant pastor and a Catholic priest, a girls' hostel and some Christian homes, according to Asia News. Then they burned them to the ground, while about 450 Christian families fled yesterday. They have not returned. The Justice and Peace Commission accuses the police of "criminal negligence" because they did not intervene. Lawrence John Saldanha, archbishop of Lahore Archdiocese and chairman of the National...