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Hindus set fire to orphanage
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Aug 25, 2:41 PM EDT
BHUBANESHWAR, India (AP) -- Suspected Hindu hard-liners set fire Monday to an orphanage run by Christian missionaries in eastern India, killing one woman and seriously injuring a priest, police said.
Ashok Biswal, superintendent of police, said the woman was a 21-year-old teacher giving computer training to children at the orphanage. Initial reports that the woman was a nun were incorrect, he said
The attack occurred in Khuntapali, a village in Orissa state, during a strike called by the World Hindu Council to protest the killing Saturday of a Hindu religious leader and four others by suspected communist rebels in another district of the state, Biswal told The Associated Press.
Biswal said on Monday a group of Hindu hard-liners converged on the orphanage in Khuntapali, nearly 250 miles west of the state capital of Bhubaneshwar, and asked nearly 20 residents to leave the complex.
They then set the orphanage on fire with the woman and priest locked inside, he said.
The woman died and the priest was hospitalized with serious burns, Biswal said. He added that doctors now said the priest was "out of danger."
In 1999, an Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his two sons were killed by a Hindu mob that set their car on fire.
The region is marked by religious tensions between Christian missionaries who work with mostly poor tribes in the region and hard-line Hindu groups that claim the Christians are forcing or bribing people to convert.
Churches deny that residents have been pressured or bribed to change their religious beliefs.
Indian law accepts missionaries but bars forced conversions. Nevertheless, any missionary activity generally provokes controversy.
Hindus account for 84 percent of India's more than 1.1 billion population and Christians about 2.4 percent.
BHUBANESHWAR, India (AP) -- Suspected Hindu hard-liners set fire Monday to an orphanage run by Christian missionaries in eastern India, killing one woman and seriously injuring a priest, police said.
Ashok Biswal, superintendent of police, said the woman was a 21-year-old teacher giving computer training to children at the orphanage. Initial reports that the woman was a nun were incorrect, he said
The attack occurred in Khuntapali, a village in Orissa state, during a strike called by the World Hindu Council to protest the killing Saturday of a Hindu religious leader and four others by suspected communist rebels in another district of the state, Biswal told The Associated Press.
Biswal said on Monday a group of Hindu hard-liners converged on the orphanage in Khuntapali, nearly 250 miles west of the state capital of Bhubaneshwar, and asked nearly 20 residents to leave the complex.
They then set the orphanage on fire with the woman and priest locked inside, he said.
The woman died and the priest was hospitalized with serious burns, Biswal said. He added that doctors now said the priest was "out of danger."
In 1999, an Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his two sons were killed by a Hindu mob that set their car on fire.
The region is marked by religious tensions between Christian missionaries who work with mostly poor tribes in the region and hard-line Hindu groups that claim the Christians are forcing or bribing people to convert.
Churches deny that residents have been pressured or bribed to change their religious beliefs.
Indian law accepts missionaries but bars forced conversions. Nevertheless, any missionary activity generally provokes controversy.
Hindus account for 84 percent of India's more than 1.1 billion population and Christians about 2.4 percent.
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Wow. Where does one even begin?
kevinbeetle: "Yes. When her career washes up and her and Gavin move to Galveston, you will meet her at Hot Topic shopping for a Japanese cheerleader outfit.
Next!"
I never liked missionaries.
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I'm trying to figure out if you're more upset about allegations of forced conversion than about a group of people actually setting fire to an orphanage with people locked inside it and killing one of them. It sounds to me like setting fire to people who don't view things the same way you do is 1. murder and 2 a very forceful conversion or conviction.
Still, unless "forced conversion" is threatening conversion with force, I don't think preaching religion is offensive enough to warrant setting fire to an orphanage. If anyone disagrees, please enlighten.
but hey....at least this topic has been posted on a website where it will be viewed as progress. i can only imagine the outrage from the pearligious if it had been a hindu burned at the stake.
Christianity - 34,567,432,166
Islam - 67,124,831,467
Hindu - 1
They have some catching up to do.
Oh, so you're keeping score...cool. Well, then they can do just about anything they want then huh? Good to know.
Islam - 67,124,831,467
Hindu - 1 + 4000 years of caste system (google "Dalit")
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I'm thinking world history.
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I read something about violent buddhists a while ago. I can't remember where, or when or what it was about
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Take my hand, my child of love
Come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean,
I've been crying all these years
A 200-man mob, accompanied by extremist Buddhist monks, has attacked a children’s home, which was being run by the Dutch Reformed Church in central Sri Lanka at the beginning of August-
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/buddhist.extremists.attack.christian.run.childrens.home.in.sri.lanka/7261.htm
Anyway, I hate the way my religion has to be used as as some sort of "legitimate" excuse for frankly criminal and evil behaviour by hard-liners, whether inciting riots, burning people up or oppressing people. Hinduism doesn't even condone the caste system, it's perpetuated by people like them! They make me really mad sometimes!!
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strictly speaking hinduism is not really a religion as it is a way of life.
and yes the cast system is disgusting, but there is huge progress as India's economy booms more and more poor people are earning more money so they can send their kids to school and they can get better jobs, become middle class etc.
you got to remember India is still going through its own industrial revolution. Much of the same conditions were seen throughout Europe.
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is that some sort of joke I don't know about?
The Pope has condemned deadly violence between Hindus and Christians in India's eastern Orissa state, which has claimed at least 11 lives.
During his weekly Vatican address, Pope Benedict XVI said he was "profoundly saddened" and called for communities to try to restore "peaceful coexistence".
The killing of a Hindu leader on Saturday sparked the violence.
Christians have suffered retaliatory attacks, despite police saying Maoist rebels were to blame for the killing.
"I firmly condemn any attack on human life," Pope Benedict told a crowd of pilgrims on Wednesday.
"I express spiritual closeness and solidarity to the brothers and sisters in faith who are being so harshly tested."
He labelled the death of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati as "deplorable".
He was shot along with four others in an attack in the Kandhamal district of Orissa.
The Pope used strong language in condemning the violence
Police said Maoist rebels were responsible, but the attack has led to days of rioting between Hindu and Christian communities.
Hindu mobs have burnt down monasteries, churches and an orphanage run by Christians.
Among those killed was a Hindu woman who was working at the orphanage, in the village of Barakhama.
Arson and burning of Christian religious places has continued in Kandhamal, despite a curfew in all major towns.
Three bodies were discovered early on Wednesday in the district, bringing the death toll to 11 since Saturday.
Police have now been ordered to shoot rioters on sight.
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Take my hand, my child of love
Come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean,
I've been crying all these years