March 19, 2010
A mob of about 150 Hindu extremists allegedly from the Bajrang Dal, shouting Hindu slogan exhumed the dead body and dumped it 3kms away from the cemetery on March 17 in Arsikere, Karnataka. (Dug up from the ground)
Evangelical Fellowship of India correspondent reported that at about 7:30 p.m. just as the funeral procession of late Isaac (50), member of St. Thomas Church, was over. The extremists forcefully entered into the cemetery, exhumed the body, and tossed it into a tractor while reprimanding the Christians to carry the dead body to Rome or America as the dead body of a Christian may contaminate the soil. (more…)
March 15, 2010
“The majority of people are settlers. They like to settle a land pioneered by others. There are fewer paradigm shifters and paradigm pioneers, those who are ready, and sometimes even eager, to enter the new. The biblical understanding is that the new is always beckoning us. God, by definition, is “One who does a new thing.” And our desperate need is for the new. A new neighborhood. A new city. A new world which respects and honors and cares for all of its people. The paradigm shifters and the pioneers are the ones who lead us into that newness. (more…)
