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General
Secretary's Message:
 Dear Readers,
Greetings
to you from the Synod of the Church
of
North India.
Thank
you for your prayers for our brothers and sisters in Orissa who are being
persecuted unduly by the Hindu fanatics.
We have received scores of comforting emails from many of you.
God has heard your prayers and as a result now the Centre has
imposed Article 355 on Orissa a...
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CNI
Mission Statement
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"The Church of North India as a
United and Uniting together is committed to announce the Good News of the
reign of God inaugurated through death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in
proclamation and to demonstrate in actions to restore the integrity of God's
creation through continuous struggle against the demonic powers by breaking
down the barriers of caste, class, gender, economic inequality and
exploitation of the nature."
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CNI
Refuses Iftaar Party Invitation of President of India
17
September, New Delhi:
To express solidarity with the suffering Christians in Orissa,
Karnataka, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh and the inaction of Governments
to curb the violence perpetrated against the minorities communities
in India, Rev. Dr. Enos Das Pradhan, General Secretary of the ....more
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Christians
of Barakhama Village Urge the Administration to Relocate Settlement
The
traumatized and agonized Christians of Barakhama village in Kandhamal, the
epicentre of communal violence in Orissa, are scared to live in the village
where they had been living for many generations since time immemorial, and
have urged the District Administration to relocate their settlement to ...more
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Solidarity
Rally at Bhubaneswar Calls for Early Restoration of Peace in Orissa
The
solidarity rally organized by the National Minority Front at
Bhubaneswar on 17th September 2008 called for earliest restoration
of peace and stringent action for the perpetrators of violence.
The rally was organized to express solidarity with the
Christian minority communities who are enduring unimaginable ....more
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Deputy Moderator of CNI Calls
for Peace and Harmony
The
Deputy Moderator of the Church of North India, Rt. Rev. Purely
Lyngdoh has appealed to the people of different faith communities to
maintain peace and to promote communal harmony at this juncture when
the entire country is plunged into communal violence . ....more
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Gender
Sensitization Programme at Pune Diocese
 The
Word “gender,” means the combination of socially and culturally
constructed differences between women and men. It is distinct from
biological differences. Gender establishes the social roles,
practices, structures, and ideologies that shape the lives and
identities ....more
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The 13th Ordinary Synod Meeting of the
Church of North India
October 16 – 21, 2008
Avlons Girls’ Senior Secondary School, Pathankot
(Diocese of Chandigarh)
Theme
“Not
to Conform but Reform to Transform” (Romans: 12:2)
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News
from Far and Near
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Centre
ready with Art 355 rocket for Orissa, Karnataka
In
a late-night move, the Centre was reported to be preparing the ground for
a politically controversial move of invoking Article 355 against Orissa
and Karnataka, the two NDA-ruled states which are witnessing large-scale . ...more
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Not
just terror, Govt for stiff law on communal violence
Senior
functionaries of the Central Government
refuse to spell out what kind of national anti-terror law the
government has in mind to deal with cases of terrorism but the
blueprint of what it has in .more
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Kandhmal
sitting on communal tinderbox
A
mob damaged a church and set some Christian homes ablaze shattering
the government's claims that all is under control in Kandhmal. Even
the house of the sarpanch who's a Dalit Christian wasn't spared.
Tribals claim the sarpanch grabbed the post by producing a fake
scheduled
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Deadly
ripple of communal violence in Orissa
When masked assailants
shot and killed 84-year-old Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati and four
others inside his ashram at Jalespatta what followed was inevitable.
The August 23 murders turned a smouldering bushfire into a raging
inferno that spread out of control beyond .....more
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Mob kills constable, torches police station in Orissa
Armed attackers on
Tuesday shot dead a police constable and set fire to a police
station in Orissa’s riot-hit Kandhamal district. The
spurt in violence has led to heavy force deployment in the area. A
large number of attackers armed with country-made guns and crude
weapons
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Kandhamal
Rioters Not Only Had a Plan But Ample Time Too
The rioters of Kandhamal
were not simply reacting to the murder of their leader, as the Sangh
Parivar in the state has maintained. Had
it not been for a plan, and inexplicable inertia on the part of the state
government and district authorities, the killers ...more
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