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Graham Staines. Graham Stuart Staines (18 January 1941 – 23 January 1999) was an Australian Christian missionary, who along with his two sons, Philip (aged 10) and Timothy (aged 6), was burnt to death in India by members of the Hindu nationalist group, Bajrang Dal. [1] In 2003, Bajrang Dal activist Dara Singh was convicted of leading the ...
These attacks include the ransacking of churches, monasteries, and other Christian institutions, the burning of copies of the Bible, the desecration of cemeteries, the murder of priests and missionaries, and the sexual assault of nuns. [3] From 1964 to 1996, at least 38 incidents of violence against Christians were reported.
The 2008 Kandhamal violence refers to widespread violence against Christians purportedly incited by Hindutva organisations in the Kandhamal district of Orissa, India, in August 2008 after the murder of the Hindu monk Lakshmanananda Saraswati. [ 1 ] According to government reports the violence resulted in at least 39 Christians killed. [ 2 ]
e. The 2008 attacks on Christians in southern Karnataka were the wave of attacks directed against Christian churches and prayer halls in the Indian city of Mangalore and the surrounding area of southern Karnataka in September and October 2008 by Hindu nationalist organisations such as Bajrang Dal and Sri Ram Sena.
Eugen Liebendörfer – German physician and Basel missionary to India. James Long – Church Missionary Society missionary. Joshua Marshman. Henry Martyn – Church Missionary Society missionary. Arthur Margoschis – Nazareth, Tamil Nadu – SPG missionary. Julia Lore McGrew - medical missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of ...
Indian Army. Operation Blue Star was a military operation by the Indian Armed Forces conducted between 1 and 10 June 1984 to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and other Sikh militants from the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), a holy site of Sikhism, and its adjacent buildings. A long-standing movement advocating for greater political rights for ...
Occupation. Christian missionary. 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 ]
The world's average annual death rate from intentional violence, in recent years, has been 7.9 per 100,000 people. [ 172 ] For 2012, [ 11 ] there were 93 deaths in India from many incidences of communal violence (or 0.007 fatalities per 100,000 people). Of these, 48 were Muslims, 44 Hindus and one police official.