2017 ‘one of the most traumatic years for Indian Christians’
...them. The report’s authors drew parallels with the scale of violence experienced last year and what they termed the “pogrom” that took place in Kandhamal in 2008, when nearly 100...
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India: Kandhamal Christians back in jail after temporary Christmas release
...Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission. Background Nearly 100 Christians were killed and 300 churches and 6,000 Christian homes damaged in the Kandhamal district of Odisha, after the killing...
Indian Christmas: fear and Western ways
...in Kandhamal, Odisha state, destroyed and worshippers terrorised in what would be a forerunner to weeks of violence the following August in which nearly 100 Christians were killed and 56,000...
India: Kandhamal victims wait, a year on, for government to obey Supreme Court
Christian leaders hope the Odisha authorities will soon pay out compensation for homes – like this one – damaged in the Kandhamal violence in 2008 (World Watch Monitor) In northeast...
India: ‘Kandhamal seven’ appeal hearings postponed
Launch of prayer campaign for ‘Kandhamal seven’ Seven “innocent” Christians serving prison sentences for the 2008 murder of a Hindu leader in India’s eastern Odisha state have had their appeal...
Modi accused of hypocrisy after BJP bulldozes through India’s latest ‘anti-conversion law’
...a select committee. Cardinal Toppo visits a desecrated statue in the Kandhamal district of Odisha, the location of the worst anti-Christian violence in India’s history, during his days as President...
UPDATE: Compensation for family of Indian Christian couple shot dead in anti-Maoist crossfire
...Kotagarh area of Kandhamal district, to get mobile phone reception to call their sons after they had attended a church service. Local Christians and human rights activists had asserted that...
India: Kerala chief minister calls for fresh probe into Kandhamal deaths
...of whom are illiterate, were convicted in 2013 of the swami’s murder in Kandhamal, in the north-eastern state of Odisha. The men – three of whom are Dalits, the other...
Priests visit scene of anti-Christian violence
Thirty-two priests from north-eastern India have visited the scene of the worst anti-Christian violence in India’s history, reports UCAN. Villages in the Kandhamal district of the eastern state of Odisha...
Freedom of religion or belief ‘the defining issue of our time’
An Egyptian Christian prays moments before his beheading on a beach in Libya (2015). Over 100 parliamentarians from 60 countries met this week in Berlin for a series of workshops...