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Monday, January 30, 2006

Hindu Militants stone Boy in Conversion Siege

Many Christians have kept their heads in the sand and held on to the false conception that innocent children are shown compassion and spared by persecuters of their faith, this story reported a few days ago by ANS is just one of many where children were included as targets (or were the sole target) of violence and martyred as result.

ASSIST News Service has reported the following terrible tragedy in India where angry Hindu fanatics stoned an orphanage of 100 abandoned children run by Hopegivers intl, a Christian organization, one child was killed, about thirty fled and took cover in neighboring homes while seventy children and their school caregivers were still under seige at the time it was first reported.

Quoted from ANS article...

"... TINDOLE, RAJASTHAN (ANS) -- An angry mob of anti-social fanatics stoned an orphanage in northern India, Thursday, January 26, killing one of the orphans in the rampage.Bishop M.A. Thomas, founder of Hopegivers International, received the horrifying news via a phone call earlier today. He said the child killed was a boy between 8 and 10 years of age. Bishop Thomas told ASSIST the attack began when the Hopegivers leaders in charge of the orphanage, the Reverends Mangilal and Gopal, were attacked by a mob wanting to force the Christian tribal Dalit residents (untouchables) to revert back to Hinduism..."