<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/63ffdbf3-b0f7-47b8-a46d-e31c2b6ab234/ADFEBF26-983F-416D-B25B-2BB5639C3EF1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/16/christians-persecuted-in-india/" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/16/christians-persecuted-in-india/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.washingtontimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/16/christians-persecuted-in-india/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.washingtontimes.com/img/38A637A2-C84A-417C-A35B-B34E0C1E6786" alt="Julia Duin " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/16/christians-persecuted-in-india/">Christians persecuted in India</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/16/christians-persecuted-in-india/"> On my refrigerator, there is a laminated photo of a serious-looking man from <A href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=India" title="India">India</A> named Arakhita.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/16/christians-persecuted-in-india/"><P> He is a missionary I am sponsoring in <A href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Orissa" title="Orissa">Orissa</A>, India's poorest state. Tourists never go there, but missionaries do. Sometimes they don't end up so well. In January 1999, Australian missionary (and leprosy worker) Graham Staines and his two sons, ages 9 and 6, were burned tp death by Hindu radicals as they lay sleeping. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/16/christians-persecuted-in-india/"><P> That gruesome murder alerted the world to the true state of affairs in east-central India, where the law of the jungle reigns. A spokesman for Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a radical Hindu group, admitted to the Indian magazine Frontline "that some of our activists got carried away." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/16/christians-persecuted-in-india/"><P> "The attacks were targeted toward Christians, and the attackers had the help of villagers who knew where the Christians lived," she said. 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