Attacks On Christian Holidays Are Becoming Increasingly Common In India.

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hindustan is terorist state run a fanatic hindutava ragime.the polotics in this country is based on attacking minorities.sikhs ,muslim, dalits, christians.

Intolerant Hindus Attack Easter Services in India

Assaults on two churches mar celebrations in Karnataka state.

by Vishal Arora

NEW DELHI, Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) extremists stormed two Easter Sunday services and beat at least 16 Christians, including two pastors, in the Karnataka state capital of Bangalore and in Shimoga district.

A mob of more than 150 intolerant Hindus on Sunday (March 23) launched an attack on a Pentecostal church in Karnataka’s Shimoga district at 9 a.m., and a group of more than a dozen assailants struck Christians of an independent church in Byapanahalli on the suburbs of Bangalore at 11:45 a.m., reported the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC).

“About 150 Hindutva radicals armed with sticks stormed the Indian Pentecostal Church in Gundlikoppa village, around 20 kilometers from Shimoga district headquarters, while the believers were attending the Easter service,” Dr. Sajan K. George, GCIC’s national president, told Compass.

Accusing the church of “forced” conversions without any evidence for the charge, the attackers beat 35-year-old pastor Mandya Nagraj and five others, besides vandalizing church property, George added. The assailants damaged the roof and musical instruments.

Pastor Nagraj had received a threat a week earlier, added George.

Police arrested six of the attackers and provided protection to the pastor after GCIC’s intervention. The Pentecostal church, attended by around 60 Christians, has been functioning for six years with no evidence of attempting to convert people by force or fraud.

Girl Beaten

In the second attack, George said at least 12 extremists led by the Hindu priest of a local temple and his associate, identified only as Puttappa, attacked the Grace Almighty Full Gospel Church in Byapanahalli in Bangalore.

The assailants beat 30-year-old pastor P. Isaac and nine believers, including a 17-year-old girl identified only as Jency. The girl was rushed to a hospital for first-aid.

Following the attack, the assailants went to the homes of a few believers and warned them against attending the church. They also took Pastor Isaac to the police station and sought to register a complaint against him for “forced” conversions. Police interrogated the pastor and subsequently released him.

But police brokered a “compromise” between the attackers and the pastor requiring him to leave the area.

The independent church was established around seven years ago, and has more than 60 members.

Karnataka came under the President’s rule on November 20 last year, when the ruling coalition comprising the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) party and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) broke up. Legislative elections are expected to be announced soon.

Christian persecution rose to new heights in the state after the BJP and JD-S came to power in February 2006.

There are a little more than 1 million Christians in Karnataka, which is home to over 52.8 million people.

Holiday Attacks

Attacks on Christian holidays are becoming increasingly common in India.

Hindutva extremists beat two pastors of Believers’ Church on Easter last year (April 8) in Salwa village in Madhya Pradesh state’s Mandla district. They arrived at the house of the pastors, Dinesh Toppo and Chandan Chhinchani, to launch the assault.

Similarly, on Christmas Eve of 2007, Hindutva extremists led a series of violent attacks on Christians and their property in Orissa state’s Kandhamal district.

The attacks, lasting more than a week, killed six Christians and razed at least 730 houses and 95 churches, according to a fact-finding team of the All India Christian Council’s Orissa chapter. Hundreds of displaced Christians remained in relief camps set up by the Orissa government at press time. (See Compass Direct News, “Two More Victims of Violence Succumb to Injuries in Orissa,” February 20.)

The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) told BosNewsLife that the Hindu militants were part of an angry mob of some 100 people who last week attacked the nuns near their St. Mary convent in Alibag, just outside Mumbai.

One of the two victims, identified only as Sister Mercy, returned two the convent after spending five days at Alibag Civil Hospital, but she struggles to overcome the trauma of the sexual abuse, the well-informed GCIC said. "I told them, 'kill me, don't leave me half-dead, if you must, then kill me'," she recalled in remarks published by GCIC. "They pushed me against the wire, and hit me, then threw me to the ground," she reportedly said.

It came on the heels of a report detailing 142 religiously-motivated attacks on Christian targets in 2007, although it acknowledged the real total may be "much higher." The report, issued by Britain-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), specifically cited deadly clashes in India's Orissa State over the Christmas period of 2007, described by rights watchers as the "largest attack on the Christian community in the history of democratic India."

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this is the kind of country Canada should be going to, to conduct their "peacekeeping" missions

All this disaster but only a blind eye.

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yeah

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these terorist keepon attacking minorties

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Hindu Radicals Beat Up Pastor in India

http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve10531

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When will it stop!

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vedio of the victims of the attack

http://www.persecution.in/node/2705

it will only end when we have khalistan only and only then

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New Delhi - A low-caste man was beaten to death by a mob on the suspicion of stealing a cow in a case of caste violence in India's eastern state of Bihar, a news report said Wednesday.

The victim, identified as Bharat Dom, was lynched Tuesday in Chhapra town, 60 kilometres north-west of the state capital, Patna, the IANS news agency reported.

Police said a mob caught the man, who is in his mid-40s, on suspicion of having stolen the cow from the house of an upper-caste man.

'He was beaten to death with bricks and bamboo sticks,' a police officer told IANS. A murder case has been registered, but arrests have yet to be made.

The incident comes a day after an elderly man was lynched in the same state when he intervened to save his grandson in a dispute over a love affair.

Over the past few months, more than a dozen cases of vigilante justice and mob lynchings have been reported in Bihar, which is India's poorest and most lawless state. Atrocities against low castes, also known as Dalits, are also common in the state

In September, 10 men from a Dalit community were beaten to death on the suspicion that they were thieves. Later, an inquiry found the men were innocent.

In August, a policeman in Bihar drowned two low-caste girls by throwing them in a river for stealing firewood from his orchard.

Although caste-based discrimination is banned, upper-caste Hindus still practice all forms of discrimination, including not allowing the low caste to worship at temples and insisting that they drink from separate village wells.

The most menial jobs, including the cleaning of sewers, often manually, are also largely done by Dalit community members, who comprise about 160 million of India's 1.2 billion people.

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They think the cows life is more important than a Humans - someone go give them a big mac.

Sarpanch, you sound just like the type of people who tortured our ancestors whilst laughing at our beliefs. It's fair enough to highlight the attacks on minorities by some people who happen to be Hindu, but it is NOT okay to start mocking another religion on Sikhsangat.

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They think the cows life is more important than a Humans - someone go give them a big mac.

Sarpanch, you sound just like the type of people who tortured our ancestors whilst laughing at our beliefs. It's fair enough to highlight the attacks on minorities by some people who happen to be Hindu, but it is NOT okay to start mocking another religion on Sikhsangat.

Im making a comparison between the two a cows life is worth more than a humans hows that racist