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Results from Tag: 'kandhamal persecution'

L to R: Convert Bijay Kumar Pradhan stands outside of Christ Church Piserama; a group of widows of the persecution gather in Kandhamal at the Raikia church after their meeting on May 17. They are witnesses to the power of Christ.

Epicenter of Christian Persecution in India, Kandhamal Proves Tertullian Dictum

Vocations are growing among youth who spent days and months in jungles and refugee camps during the prolonged persecution.

Anto Akkara World July 25, 2022

(Clockwise from L-R) The sprawling refugee camp at a football field in Raikia, Kandhamal in 2008 taken after four months into the violence. (T-R) SisterAnjali Nayak inside their burnt Mount Carmel convent chapel. (B-L) Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, then CBCI president, praying before the desecrated Marian statue at the Mount Carmel convent in Balliguda. (B-R) Widowed Kanakrekha Nayak at a protest in New in Delhi in Aug 2010 marking the second anniversary of Kandhamal.

Kandhamal Christians’ Suffering and Witness to Faith Recalled, on 13th Anniversary of Anti-Christian Bloodshed

The 2008 events constituted the worst anti-Christian violence in modern Indian history.

Anto Akkara World September 13, 2021

A solemn Mass was held last month in Bhubaneswar.

A Decade After Kandhamal Persecution, Catholic Church Forgives

Amid the Christian victims’ lingering suffering, Church leaders seek reconciliation.

Anto Akkara World September 12, 2018

Results from Tag: 'kandhamal persecution'

Epicenter of Christian Persecution in India, Kandhamal Proves Tertullian Dictum

Kandhamal Christians’ Suffering and Witness to Faith Recalled, on 13th Anniversary of Anti-Christian Bloodshed

A Decade After Kandhamal Persecution, Catholic Church Forgives

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