Survivors Christian Violence Meet EU Officials
February 8, 2010
By Santosh Digal, BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent
KANDHAMAL, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Survivors of India's worst anti-Christian violence in recent memory have met European Union delegates over the weekend, urging them to help them in their fight for justice. EU diplomats appeared visibly moved when visiting displaced refugees in the troubled Indian state of Orissa when viewing old and sick man and infants born in refugees camps that were set up after violence killed over 100 people since Christmas 2007.
KANDHAMAL, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Survivors of India's worst anti-Christian violence in recent memory have met European Union delegates over the weekend, urging them to help them in their fight for justice. EU diplomats appeared visibly moved when visiting displaced refugees in the troubled Indian state of Orissa when viewing old and sick man and infants born in refugees camps that were set up after violence killed over 100 people since Christmas 2007.
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Amid international pressure, North Korea released an American missionary Saturday, February 6, and sent him to China after holding him for more than a month, officials confirmed. 
WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- A religious liberty group warned Saturday, February 6, that "Anti-Christian hostility is getting increasingly deadly" in the United States after two street preachers were shot and killed by a teenager who apparently opposed their message.
WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- United States President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described international religious freedom as "important" at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, but a group investigating persecution of Christians said the administration should turn its words into deeds. 
NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Authorities in India's state of Orissa have forced nearly 100 survivors of anti-Christian violence to leave a local market complex where they stayed since the closure of refugee camps, Christians and officials told BosNewsLife, Thursday, February 4.
CHAKWAL, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Protestant Christians in Pakistan's Punjab province were searching for a place of worship Wednesday, February 3, after angry Muslims apparently attacked their partly constructed church, injuring scores of worshippers.
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HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- There was international disappointment Monday, February 1, that the leader of a growing network of independent churches in Cuba has been denied the right to appeal his six-year prison sentence by the Supreme Tribunal in Havana. 
TORONTO, CANADA (BosNewsLife)-- Glenn Penner, who became a key voice for persecuted Christians as leader of advocacy group The Voice of the Martyrs Canada (VOMC) has died after losing his battle with cancer, officials said. He was 48. 
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