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Please go read – and bookmark – this blog that is detailing the horrors being inflicted upon the Christians of Orissa, India.<\/a>
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A video grab shows the interior of a Christian orphanage which was torched by a mob in Bargah town, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, August 25, 2008. Authorities imposed a curfew in parts of an eastern Indian state on Tuesday after two people were burnt to death and more than a dozen churches torched by suspected Hindus angry over the murder of their leader. Hundreds of police were deployed in three towns in Orissa as they tried to end two days of violence in which the Christian orphanage was also torched by suspected Hindu mobs. Video taken August 25, 2008.REUTERS\/ANI via Reuters TV (INDIA) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
This post contains a recent listing of damage and destruction.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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