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In October 2020, Babu Lal Vaishnav, a 50-year-old Hindu temple priest was killed in Bukna village, Rajasthan. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Kailash Meena allegedly burnt Vaishnav alive after Vaishnav tried to stop Meena from trespassing on land belonging to the village temple.
Along with the five priests, Gonçalo Rodrigues and the 14 Goan Catholics were also killed. Of the latter, one was Domingo, a boy of Cuncolim, who was a student at Rachol Seminary, and had accompanied the priests on their expeditions to Cuncolim and pointed out to them the Hindu temples. He was killed by his own Hindu uncle for assisting the ...
Ramna massacre (Bengali: রমনা গণহত্যা) was the massacre of Bengali Hindus who lived in the region around the Ramna Kali Temple in East Pakistan by the Pakistani army on the night of 27 March, 1971. [1] [2] It is estimated that around 250 Hindus were killed in the massacre.
With the beginning of the Sri Lankan civil war in 1983, attacks on Hindu temples by the majority Buddhist Sri Lankan security forces escalated, with the soldiers occupying, plundering, desecrating and ejecting priests and devotees from some temples such as the famous Thirukketheeswaram Temple in Mannar.
He was reported to be a stickler of tradition and he streamlined the assets and income of the temple. He suspended two of the temple priests when there was a robbery in the temple and refused to allow them until they paid the loss of ₹ 105,000. He made the tenants and land leasers of the temple pay the arrears amount.
However it is also noted as a pilgrimage centre for Hindus, given its numerous Hindu temples and shrines. [5] Between 1991 and 2011, the percentage of Christians living in India reportedly dropped from 2.7 per cent to 2.2 per cent, a declining figure which has been linked to ongoing difficulties facing Christians in a predominantly Hindu nation ...
Hindu man killed as religious tensions boil in India. SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI. June 29, 2022 at 5:00 AM. 1 / 2. India Killing. A crowd gathers outside the shop of a tailor who was killed ...
Four of his disciples, including a boy, were also killed by gunfire. [7] The Kanya Ashram housed 130 girls on the day of the Janmashtami festival and many of the girls were witness to the killing, as reported by Indian Express. [8] A group of thirty to forty armed men surrounded the Ashram.