Leaders urged to stop anti-Christian violence in Orissa

The Orissa Province of India has been a place of much persecution of Christians for years and two more Christians were arrested on Tuesday.  From Asia News:

Yesterday, at 4.30 am (local time), the police stopped Baliguda Junus Pradhan, president of the NGO Jana Kalyan Samaj Christians; accused of links with local Naxal Maoists. A few hours earlier, police had arrested the pastor Raikia Sukadeb Digal, of the Baptist Church Danekbadi for alleged proselytizing and forced conversions of Hindus.

Of the three assassinations mentioned by the president of the GCIC, the most recent is that of Christian activist Rabindra Parichha, who bled to death after his throat was slit by unknown assailants on December 15, 2011. At the time of his discovery, which occurred in the town of Bhanjanagar, the had also been body shot in the abdomen [more].