Divine Word Missionaries:

Orissa
NEwS UPDATE
FROM THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CUTTACK-BHUBANESWAR, INDIA

Violent Attacks Perpetrated Against
Christians in India

Orissa, India August 25, 2008 -- After a local swami’s murder in the Eastern Indian state of Orissa, protesters have badly damaged several churches and severely injured several church-workers.

On the night of August 23, 2008, a Hindu seer named Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his associates were brutally gunned down. The religious leader had been publicly threatened recently by the Naxalites, an extremist faction of the Communist Party of India regarded as terrorists by the national government.

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When: Friday, September 12, 2008
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Japanese Ceramics in Pastel and Poetic Sketches

By: David R. Mayer

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Sts. Peter and Paul Parish
Mount Hagen, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Thank you very much for all your help!

Fr. Joe Bisson SVD from Boston is pastor of St. Peter and Paul Parish in Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea. The parish needs fuel for its generator and ambulance.

Fr. Joe is requesting $500.
I would like to make a donation

Sts. Peter and Paul Parish

Achieved:

$590.00

Goal:

$500.00