Attacks On Christians (April-June 2000)

Attacks On Christians (April-June 2000)
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May 6 Areas of Gujarat witness fresh attacks on Christians with lathis and sharp-edged weapons. Copies of the Bible burnt.

May 9 80 youth forcibly enter a girls' hostel run by Christian missionaries in Abhona village, assault persons, in Nasik district.

June 8 Time-bombs explode in churches across Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Goa

May 11 A Jesuit scholastic stabbed by suspected radical group members at Basavanapura village, 30 km from Bangalore

June 11 Preacher brutally murdered, body found in Jalandhar, Punjab

APRIL 11 Murderous attack in Mathura on Fr K.K. Thomas, principal of St Theresa school, and two nuns

June 7 Franciscan Brother George Kuzhikandam murdered in the Paulus Memorial School in Navada, Mathura

MAY 2 Six masked men assault nuns at their convent in Jhansi, desecrate their prayer room

MAY 16 50-year-old Fr Anthonysamy attacked at Bhind, 82 km from Gwalior

MAY 21 Christian prayer homes torched in Katiguda village under Kandhmal district in Orissa

MAY 21 30 persons including 25 women injured in bomb blast at prayer meeting in Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh

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