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Graham Staines was born in the Sunshine Coast suburb of Palmwoods in the Australian state of Queensland.He visited India for the first time in 1965 by joining the Evangelical Missionary Society of Mayurbhanj (EMSM), and work in the remote tribal area of Odisha state, which had a long history of active Christian missionary style work.
According to the All India Christian Council, there was an attack on Christians recorded every 40 hours in India in 2016. [24] In a report by the Indian organization Persecution Relief, the crimes against Christians increased by 60% from 2016 to 2019. There were 330 incidents in 2016, 440 incidents in 2017, 477 in 2018 and 527 incidents of hate ...
John Allen Chau (December 18, 1991 – November 17, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, a tribe in voluntary isolation, after illegally traveling to North Sentinel Island in an attempt to introduce the tribe to Christianity. [3] [4]
Christians were killed and churches were burnt and damaged in the violence. It slowly calmed down till the murder of Swami Lakshmanananda, which created a massacre during August 2008. [ 23 ] The National Commission for minorities reported that the tensions between the Kandha and the Pana tribals were partly responsible for the agitation and ...
Dara Singh (born Rabindra Kumar Pal; 2 October 1962) is an Indian convicted murderer and a Bajrang Dal activist. [2] He was convicted for leading a mob and setting fire to the station wagon in which the Australian Christian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons were asleep, burning them all alive, in Orissa.
Muslims in India who convert to Christianity are considered apostates and subject to harassment, intimidation, and attacks by Muslims. [289] [290] In Jammu and Kashmir, a Christian convert and missionary named Bashir Tantray was killed, allegedly by militant Islamists in 2006. [291] [unreliable source?]
The village head also banned the Christians to have their livestock graze with the livestock of others. [42] On 14 November, a prayer hall in Lahancharia was partly burned. [29] On 4 December, more than 35,000 Christians rallied in the streets of Ahmedabad protesting against the attacks on the Christians in Gujarat and other parts of the ...
Gladys Staines (born c. 1951) is the widow of Australian missionary Graham Staines.Graham Staines was burnt alive along with their two sons Philip (aged 10) and Timothy (aged 7) by a mob led by the Bajrang Dal activist Dara Singh in Odisha, India on 22 January 1999.