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  2. Violence against Christians in India - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. 2008 Kandhamal violence - Wikipedia

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    Unofficial reports placed the number of those killed to more than 500. [7] Many Christian families were burnt alive. [8] Thousands of Christians were forced to convert to Hinduism under threat of violence. [9] [3] [1] Many Hindu families were also assaulted in some places because they supported the Indian National Congress (INC) party. [8]

  4. 2008 Kandhamal nun gang rape case - Wikipedia

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    The incident happened during anti-Christian violence that targeted Christian Churches, Institutions and homes where more than 395 churches and 5600 Christians' houses were burned, 39-100 Christians killed, and nearly 60,000 left homeless by groups led by the Hindu nationalist Sangh Parivar groups. [1] [2] [3]

  5. 2008 attacks on Christians in southern Karnataka - Wikipedia

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    Christian buildings were damaged across Mangalore taluk, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Chikkamagaluru districts. A few Christian institutions were later attacked in Bangalore district and Kasaragod district. Christians staged counter-protests to the violence. One particularly large one was staged by the Catholics of Karkala deanery on 15 ...

  6. Dozens killed in crowd crush at world’s largest religious ...

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    Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as tens of millions of devotees went to bathe in a river on one of the most ...

  7. Religious violence in Odisha - Wikipedia

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    The organisation said attacks against Christians increased "significantly" since the "Hindu Nationalist" BJP came to power. [24] Then-Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee, a leader of BJP, condemned the "ghastly attack" and called for swift action to catch the killers. [25] He also ordered to stop all illegal missionaries in Orissa.

  8. Details emerge after doctor raped, killed in India as ... - AOL

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    Citizens are taking to the streets in Kolkata, India, on August 14, ahead of the 78th Indian Independence Day, to protest against the rape and murder of a second-year intern doctor in Kolkata.

  9. Graham Staines - Wikipedia

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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.