by VOM NZ | Feb 4, 2020 | India, Updates
(Source: World Watch Monitor) After spending nearly a decade in prison, the Supreme Court of India has ruled that the last five of the seven Kandhamal Christians, Bhaskar Sunamajhi, Munda Badmajhi, Durjo Sunamajhi, Sanatan Badamajhi and Budhadeb Nayak, be released on...
by VOM NZ | Oct 15, 2019 | India
Released on Bail by India’s Supreme Court in May 2019. Bijay Kumar Sanseth, a Christian leader from the Baptist Church, was one of seven innocent Christians who were jailed for life in October 2013, for the murder of a Hindu swami in the Kandhamal district of Odisha...
by VOM NZ | Oct 15, 2019 | India, New, Updates
Kandhamal Christians | India On August 23, 2008, as Hindus celebrated Janmashtami in the Kandhamal district of Odisha state, eastern India, their prominent leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati was shot dead. Hindu fundamentalists quickly blamed Swami’s murder on...
