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150-year-old church set on fire in India
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by hussain | September 19, 2008 at 04:21 am
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JABALPUR: An angry mob set a 150-year-old church on fire during a series of violence continue in India here on Thursday.
This incident, occurred in a city of Madhya Pradesh, was a result of conflicts between the Hindus and the Christians in various areas of India.
A number of churches in Orissa and Karnataka were attacked over the weekend,
Indian Christians held protest rallies against setting the churches on fire and demanded from the government to take stern action against the culprits.
In the Hindu-Christian violence, continued for the last one month, 16 people have been died and several wounded. Most of them were the Christians.
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rumana husain
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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at 05:17 on September 19th, 2008
hussain, I like this story. It's good stuff. this is terrible news from my father's city of birth. a beautiful place with its famous marble rocks (called 'bhera ghaat') and the narbada river flowing between them...a picture of tranquility. i am posting a few jabalpur pictures.
at 06:23 on September 19th, 2008
Rumana Hussain, thanks for flag and pictures.
at 10:00 on September 19th, 2008
hussain, I like this story. It's good stuff.