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News about Chechnya, 04/13
PLEASE BOOST THIS. THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
I’ve just checked the official website of Russian LGBT network, and there are news from today:
“We receive alarming reports from Chechnya that unknown people are calling those who are now hiding from persecution and offer help with traveling abroad. These people call themselves the employees of the LGBT organization and invite to come to Krasnodar and discuss the details.
The Russian LGBT network officially states that our representatives in the regions do not communicate and are not authorized to call someone. All communication is conducted ONLY through the Hotline and mail kavkaz@lgbtnet.org. We warn that such proposals for assistance are not related to the work of the Russian LGBT network and may pose a threat to life.”
“Мы получаем тревожные сообщения из Чечни о том, что неизвестные люди звонят на телефоны тех, кто сейчас скрывается от преследований и предлагают помощь с выездом заграницу. Эти люди представляются сотрудниками ЛГБТ-организацией и приглашают приехать в Краснодар и обсудить детали.
Российская ЛГБТ-сеть официально заявляет о том, что наши представители в регионах не ведут связь и не уполномочены кому-либо звонить. Все общение ведется ТОЛЬКО через Горячую линию и почту kavkaz@lgbtnet.org. Мы предупреждаем, что подобные предложения о помощи не связаны с работой Российской ЛГБТ-сети и могут представлять угрозу для жизни.”
I wanted to share this so that when people see this, they can pray for or somehow help the people going through this. Hopefully, our world will someday see that persecution is wrong and that people should be free to believe what they believe.
i will personally burn you for implying that christians are systematically persecuted go to school
Hi! Perhaps a little lesson would be good here.
The first Christian to be persecuted was Christ himself. They literally killed him for what he taught.
Christianity was illegal for the first 300 years of its existence, until Constantine was like “O wait that shit’s dope I wanna do that too.” In that time, Christians were regularly tortured, beheaded, stoned, burned alive, drawn and quartered, and – in a word – persecuted. There are records of that, both in the Bible and in historical texts. Take your pick of which you would like to look further into, and do that, please.
Some time in the fourth century AD, king Athanaric of Terving decided to kill some Christians. This one was called the “Gothic persecution” because he specifically targeted Goths that had converted to Christianity.
In the year 516 AD a Jewish warlord in Yemen by the name of Yousef Asa'ar decided that all Christians must convert to Judaism or die. When they refused, he killed about 20,000 Christians.
During the Roman-Persian wars, Christians were persecuted by Jews and by Persians. This one had a death toll of about 17,000 Christians.
During the mid seventh century, Christians living in areas governed by sharia law were banned from spreading their faith by threat of death. They were also forced to pay higher taxes; those who could not do so were required to surrender their children, who were then sold as slaves. Christian men were not permitted to marry Muslim women, but Muslim men were allowed to marry Christian women.
If we jump to the 14th century, we see massive persecutions committed by Tamerlane. This became known as the Assyrian genocide, where at least 20,000 Christians were killed.
In 17th Century Albania, Christians were forced to pay higher taxes than non-Christians, leading them into poverty where they were then unable to afford basic necessities, like, oh, you know, food.
The French Revolution was accompanied by the dechristianization of France, wherein clergy were deported or killed, churches were desecrated and pillaged, and public worship and religious education were outlawed. A law was passed in 1793 that made it illegal to be or harbor a priest who had not sworn off his ordination, by penalty of death.
Christianity has been illegal in China since the late 17th century. This one’s still going on today. We see “Catholicism” rising in China, but the “priests” and “bishops” are hand-selected by the Chinese government, who then tells the Church to ordain them. If that doesn’t reek of state propaganda and suppression of religion to you, I don’t know what will.
In Japan in 1614, the Tokugawa shogunate decided they’d had enough of Christianity in their country. They ordered the expulsion of missionaries and execution of converts. Naturally, the Christians didn’t like that. A young Japanese Christian, Amakusa Shirō Tokisada, led the Shimabara Rebellion in 1637. When the Hara Castle fell, the shogunate’s forces killed 37,000 Christians. They put Amakusa’s head on a spike at Nagasaki for public display.
And now we’ve reached the “Modern Era.”
Between the years of 1843 and 1847, Kurdish and Ottoman forces killed over 10,000 Assyrian Christians, and sold thousands more into slavery. During the Bulgarian Uprising and Russo-Turkish War, over 15,000 non-combatant Christians were killed.
The Hamidian massacres occurred between 1894 and 1896. In these, the forces of the Ottoman Empire targeted Armenian and Assyrian Christians. It is estimated that as many as 325,000 were killed. Another 546,000 people were made destitute by deportations and destruction of farmstead towns and villages. Unarmed Assyrian women were raped, tortured, and murdered.
The Young Turks government of the Ottoman Empire apparently wanted in on the fun. This resulted in about 3.4 million deaths, including 1.5 million Armenian Christians, 750,000 Assyrian Christians, 900,000 Greek Orthodox Christians, and 250,000 Maronite Christians between the years of 1915 and 1921.
The Bolsheviks wanted to remove the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church, so they promoted atheism and intentionally murdered 500,000 Christians during the 20th Century.
When the Soviets took over, they continued the slaughter. It’s estimated that the total number of Christian victims of the soviets is somewhere from 12 million to 20 million.
In Mexico, the Christero War occurred because of persecutions. (When the Soviet Union opened an embassy in Mexico, the Soviet ambassador was awed at how closely the Soviet Union and Mexico resembled each other.) From 1926 to 1934, the number of priests in Mexico dropped from 4500 to 334. These remaining priests needed to be licensed by the Mexican government. The ones who were no longer able to serve had either emigrated, been expelled, or fallen to assassination.
Let’s move on to “the present” (the last 30 years or so).
It is estimated that over 100,000 Christians are killed annually because of their faith. The World Evangelical Alliance estimates that over 200 million Christians are denied some fundamental human rights solely because of their faith. Paul Valley (a Rabbi) states that roughly 80% of all acts of religious discrimination is directed at Christians, despite them making up only 33% of the world’s population.
There is a Christian non-profit organization that publishes a “World Watch List,” which is a list of the 50 countries most dangerous for Christians. North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran are the top ten on 2018′s list.
Sudan and Iran still implement the death penalty for apostasy (converting from Islam to Christianity, or even secretly practicing Christianity without openly professing a conversion).
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt published in May of 2019 that Christian persecution in the Middle East is “arguably coming close to meeting the international definition of genocide, according to that adopted by the UN” due to extremist groups and failure of state institutions to protect their citizens.
From 2011 to 2013, over 150 Christians have been kidnapped for ransom in Egypt.
Despite making up only 5% of the Iraqi population, Christians account for 40% of the refugees living in nearby countries.
You may not remember, but in 2017, Isis took a group of Christians and beheaded them, one by one, on video. They expressly stated the people were being murdered for being Christian.
But no, you’re right. There definitely hasn’t been systematic persecution of Christians. I must be imagining all of that.
Thank you for illuminating the dim recesses of my narrow mind and worldview.
Trying to spread information/awareness on Christian harassment.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2020/11/12/pew-christians-still-most-harassed-religious-group-world/
This article also talks a little about Islamic harassment. Both are terrible things that need to stop. Someone’s faith should be their own choice, no one has the right to harass them for it (unless of course they’re using faith as an excuse to hurt people). Please keep people being harassed/persecuted in your prayers if you pray and be kind/respectful to people regardless of their religious views.
Persecuted for Righteousness
From Beyond Today Magazine The legacy of the people of God’s Church in facing religious persecution has been one of deep faith and spiritual endurance. But what if the time comes when you are confronted with that? How will you react? Persecuted for Righteousness Posted on Jul 8, 2024 by John LaBissoniere Estimated reading time: 11 minutes On Dec. 1, 2023, a violent mob of about 200 Hindus and…
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Jewels of Truth Statements: The Wondrous Total Majesty That God Persists Absolutely
Hello All, Today is another digest version as followed by the format of my last entry here at "Atrayo's Oracle" blog site. With another 13 "Jewels of Truth" channeled angelic wisdom statements across various topics of spiritual interest. Starting with a long hand statement on the Holy Trinity of God with a Hindu twist for good measure. When I channel from the angels I try to be all inclusive to other sacred faiths in the world co-opting their terminology of spiritual phenomena and associated divine deities. Albeit personally as a person I have only predominant exposure to Christianity with the limited cross-pollination of the other two Abrahamic faiths. Besides forays into the Eastern faiths of Hinduism and Buddhism. I suspect as I explore the other holy religions of this world I will begin channeling mystical wisdom from those angels as spiritual elder teachers as well. Aside from this fascinating exploration of our holistic divinity that is native to each of us according to how we choose to develop our God given soulful gifts. I have for many years have been channeling via clairvoyant automatic writing what can be deemed a blended philosophy from Heaven. Not necessarily Bahaism, but in a similar light of a Supreme cross-pollination of all religions, benevolent spiritual traditions, and humanistic cultural secular philosophies like it was a potluck soup of God. Although religions are man-made often inspired by the blessed Will of God and spiritual traditions as a personalized path creating a like kind cosmic view of the divine. This has felt over these 21 years of automatic writing I've accomplished personally like I'm serving up an enriched flavor to all existing faiths with a harmonious humility as inclusive compassionate divine nature. At times I feel as an unapologetic truth-teller that although in real life personally, I'm hermetic in nature that these writings as heavenly blessings do not shy away from controversy shining forth higher ideals of grace into a subverted world. To coin a phrase from the original movie of the Blues Brothers; "We're on a mission from God!" The line-up for today's entry is as follows the Trinity of God 2,457 as the aforementioned longhand series. With Mindful as a meme (no numeral) and social media assorted series 520B and 521B. Persecution with meme 2,378 and social media entries of 522B and 523B. On Power as meme 485B and social media entries 524B and 525B. Lastly on God as meme 2,409 with social media entries of 526B and 527B rounding up all 13 statements. Trinity of God:
2457) Often what we call as the Holy Light also co-exists with two other dominions as the simultaneous presence of God known as the Sublime Twilight and finally the Unholy Darkness. For all of this metaphysically encompasses the totality of the Omni-Presence of God in the afterlife. In many ways, the best metaphor to co-opt is the ancient faith of the Hindu's in how they lovingly adore God itself. As the three faces of God as Brahma (Holy Light), Vishnu (Sublime Twilight), and Shiva (Unholy Darkness). One must also understand that the darkness is described as unholy in this inference to a spiritual teaching that the absence of light isn't evil on its own basis. For Shiva as the other two infinite eternal aspects of God constantly is the apex Prime Enlightened Being. Although Shiva is often referred as the Great Destroyer such a destruction isn't directly evil or unholy. Still, the absolute nature of God has no half-baked loopholes with swiss cheese exceptions as to its original form. That is more the folly of humanity flawed as it is and it isn't at the identical sequence of equality in a unified moment. Right now Creation is providing us mortals as the reborn angelic minor gods with contrast. This is the blending of twin dominions of the Holy and the Unholy giving us all equally a Sublime reality not unlike of Limbo however here we reside as mortal creatures in the lobby of Vishnu the Great Sustainer of all Creations. What God collectively represents we swim upon as souls in these ancient waters of the metaphysical and as the reborn new faces of this Universe. The merit of each of us as divine beings gives us distilled choices of which dominion of God's own pristine truth we may worship in life. Be it fully the benevolence, the benign, and the malicious for these are the creeds of our spiritual inheritance from God the Creator, Sustainer, and Destroyer. Those in the world that refuse to choose which dominion by forfeit will have the opposite choice thrust upon them given what they truly are divinely in truth. Much like creating unease to motivate a soul to act in their best interests albeit circumstances are less than ideal in the world. To ultimately do the right thing for their highest good in truth to which configuration of God they exhibit the most in the world. As the world has Light, Twilight, and Darkness the appearance of its structure doesn't change in the least. In many ways it heralds the sagas of antiquity repeated constantly for each generation of humanity bold enough to claim as its own identity. There is Absolute Peace and there is Absolute Chaos simultaneously upon this Creation. Although in the sublime enlightened afterlife there is no such contradiction it is all its own respective singular dominion. Expressed uniquely without a beginning and without an end for this is all possibilities happening on a constant basis. The afterlife is constant as the Trinity of God by the embodiment of Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu, and Lord Shiva. Which purely only knows eternalized harmony as its native ineffable pristine enlightened disposition. Without a paradoxical equal as a form of contrast, it is all Supremely Almighty United as itself. Having no war between the light, twilight, and darkness and only peace it is only itself in complete wellness as total health metaphysically speaking. The struggles of mortality cease when our bodies return to the Earth and our Spirit realizes its truest form as God itself experiencing contrast. Everything else is temporary in spite of the challenges encountered in the world as a purposely designed illusion from the vantage point of the heavens. A gentle but awkward catapult that all lives must journey together and apart seeking to be ultimately well again with Love and truthful beauty as God itself. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo. Mindful:
521B) To carry on with a mindful heart gently steers your soul to be in alignment with God. The rest is overflowing grace shining true and bright.
520B) Come home to the place of gentle whispers of the heart of God(dess). A tranquility that transforms the weary traveler into a person of vigor to carry on with joy and dignity in all beautiful things worth pursuing. Do not waste your time in bitter worry that only poisons the well of future prosperity metaphysically. Always look within in a sincerely focused mindfulness that captivates your mind into your amazing divinity right here and now.
There is never a need to hurry within eternity for everything that needs doing is done with balance and harmony in being true. The rest is superfluous causing unwanted distractions in being a misleading trail of dysfunction. All action is secondary to a genuine need to surmount one's difficulties so as to grow beautifully in life. To grow isn't always to learn it is also to create by true love in a playful manner of self-expression with sacred undertones. To Be Is Always. So all is as it should be for the best as you realize your greatest potential is God in a personal relationship with you throughout a lifetime. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo.
Persecution:
523B) Not once does the Will of God promote hatred for that is the will of Fearful people yearning to tear down what is alive in God's Holy beauty.
522B) In the world there are many blessed faiths based on pure love lived in the creed of benevolence with and for God in us. Whether God is called God or some other sacred holy name. God distinguishes not between a Christian and a Jew it is all solemnly One to him in the beloved adoration of his children no matter their form. Be we in pure spirit as ghosts in heaven or incarnated across the majesty of his Creation.
We are more than one faith in God we are a family of loosely connected divinities as a beautiful heavenly collective known as abundant grace. For Grace is the pure and perfect Enlightenment of God beyond the confines of mortality into the superb truth that defies all explanations. Often cited as the Peace that bypasses all understanding of this world and the next. Even the almighty Angels are baffled by the sheer audacity of God's grandiose nature.
How can we as mortals presume to be superior in degrading all other sanctified beloved faiths in the holy Will of God that worship our Creator combined in Heaven? Persecution of the righteousness no matter their worldly faith sinks the good name of God in them and in us equally as One. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo.
Power:
525B) All power seems to happen often without reason or rhyme and so it flows through the Soul of God in us and for us always.
524B) All power consumes it's host readily I say and when power is without limits then lo the transformation shall be complete instantly. It is better for a man to excel without seeking power for his own sake. Then to lust for power at the behest of the ego only to find it wanting once it is secured at a high cost.
Always seek God when one yearns for power and herein lays a forgotten truth that God's power perfects one's being purely under the auspices of the Holy Spirit. Seek not the fickle power of the world but seek the everlasting power of God often spoken as Grace in Action. This purifies the resolve of all supplicants seeking improvement over themselves and the world they find as lacking in so many ways. Power is grown organically when the aim is righteousness as a living form of just service no matter who shall be its recipients. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo.
God:
527B) To express the beauty of God which is soul deep in each of us is to remember that Heaven is on Earth now and forever with love. Amen.
526B) With every soul there is an inherent likeness of the Creator in each of us remarkably so in the infinite perfect beauty of God(dess) in us all collectively. Much like with our humanity our ancestor's facets of long ago life is showcased for only the graces of the Angels would declare as such.
Each entity to its own wondrous illumination of God's traits in our communal shared Soul of God across the entirety of all Creation(s). The facets of our Creator are shown across many fronts simultaneously from the simplest expression to the most intricate complexity is the Image of God shining through all of Mother Nature. Come to reflect on such exquisite graces God has given totality abundantly so and ponder what lays beneath the surface of our humanity well into our endless combined divinity as Heaven on Earth. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo.
Ivan "Atrayo" Pozo-Illas, has devoted 21 years of his life to the pursuit of clairvoyant automatic writing channeling the Angelic host. Ivan is the author of the spiritual wisdom series of "Jewels of Truth" consisting of 3 volumes published to date. He also channels inspired conceptual designs that are multi-faceted for the next society to come that are solutions based as a form of dharmic service. Numerous examples of his work are available at "Atrayo's Oracle" blog site of 11 years plus online. Your welcome to visit his website "Jewelsoftruth.us" for further information or to contact Atrayo directly.
Atrayo's Oracle Vlog Part 2: For May 18th, 2017 On Mindful, Persecution, Power, & God
In part 2 of "Atrayo's Oracle" Vlog from my blog posting on May 18th, 2017 on the 5 channeled angelic wisdom statements on the topics of Mindful, Persecution, Power, and on God. With 12 "Jewels of Truth," statements read in all. Jewels of Truth Website: http://jewelsoftruth.us Atrayo's Oracle Blog Entry: http://atrayosoracle.blogspot.com/201...
Matthew 5:11-12 NIV
[11] “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. [12] Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Our Moon Has Blood Clots -
Exodus Remembrance Day :
Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family, who were Kashmiri Pandits: the Hindu minority group in Kashmir.
January 19, 1990
It was a very cold day despite the sun’s weak attempts to emerge from behind dark clouds. In the afternoon, I played cricket with some boys from my neighbourhood. All of us wore thick sweaters and pherans. I would always remove my pheran and place it on the fence in the kitchen garden. After playing, I would wear it before entering the house to escape my mother’s wrath. She worried that I would catch cold. ‘The neighbours will think that I am incapable of taking care of my children,’ she would say in exasperation. We had an early dinner that evening and, since there was no electricity, we couldn’t watch television. Father heard the evening news bulletin on the radio as usual, and just as we were going to sleep, the electricity returned.
I am in a deep slumber. I can hear strange noises. Fear grips me. All is not well. Everything is going to change. I see shadows of men slithering along our compound wall. And then they jump inside. One by one. So many of them. I woke up startled. But the zero-watt bulb was not on. The hundred-watt bulb was. Father was waking me up. ‘Something is happening,’ he said. I could hear it—there were people out on the streets. They were talking loudly. Some major activity was underfoot. Were they setting our locality on fire? So, it wasn’t entirely a dream, after all? Will they jump inside now? Then a whistling sound could be heard. It was the sound of the mosque’s loudspeaker. We heard it every day in the wee hours of the morning just before the muezzin broke into the azaan. But normally the whistle was short-lived; that night, it refused to stop. That night, the muezzin didn’t call.
That night, it felt like something sinister was going to happen. The noise outside our house had died down. But in the mosque, we could hear people’s voices. They were arguing about something. My uncle’s family came to our side of the house. ‘What is happening?’ Uncle asked. ‘Something is happening,’ Father said. ‘They are up to something.’
It was then that a long drawl tore through the murmurs, and with the same force the loudspeaker began to hiss. ‘Naara-e-taqbeer, Allah ho Akbar!’ I looked at my father; his face was contorted. He knew only too well what the phrase meant. I had heard it as well, in a stirring drama telecast a few years ago on Doordarshan, an adaptation of Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas, a novel based on the events of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. It was the cry that a mob of Muslim rioters shouted as it descended upon Hindu settlements. It was a war cry. Within a few minutes, battle cries flew at us from every direction. They rushed towards us like poison darts.
Hum kya chaaaahte: Azadiiii!
Eiy zalimon, eiy kafiron, Kashmir humara chhod do.
What do we want—Freedom!
O tyrants, O infidels, leave our Kashmir.
Then the slogans ceased for a while. From another mosque came the sound of recorded songs eulogizing the Mujahideen resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The whole audio cassette played through, and then the slogans returned. We were still wondering what would happen next when a slogan we heard left us in no doubt. I remember Ma began to tremble like a leaf when we heard it. ‘Assi gacchi panu’nuy Pakistan, batav rostuy, batenein saan.’ The crowd wanted to turn Kashmir into Pakistan, without the Pandit men, but with their women.
They’ll come and finish us. It is just a matter of minutes now, we think. Ma rushed to the kitchen and returned with a long knife. It was her father’s. ‘If they come, I will kill her,’ she looked at my sister. ‘And then I will kill myself. And you see what you two need to do.’
Father looked at her in disbelief. But he didn’t utter a word. We are very scared. We do not know what to do. Where would we run away to? Would Ma have to kill herself? What about my sister?
My life flashed in front of me, like a silent film.
I remembered my childhood with my sister. How I played with her and how she always liked to play ‘teacher-teacher’, making me learn the spellings of ‘difficult’ words.
B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L
T-O-R-T-O-I-S-E
F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S
P-O-R-C-U-P-I-N-E
I remembered the red ribbon she wore; I remembered how she waited behind the closed gates of her school to catch a glimpse of father’s shoes from beneath; I remembered how she threw a duster at one of her friends who tried to bully me; I remembered how I left her alone in the middle of a game of hopscotch because I saw Ravi’s mother entering the house with a parrot in a cage. Would Mother stab her? And herself? What would we do? ‘The BSF will do something,’ Uncle said. But nobody does anything. The slogan-mongering continued all night. We could see searchlights from somewhere making an arc over and over again. Was the BSF keeping a watch? Why were they not stopping this madness?
The slogans did not stop till the early hours of the morning. We remained awake the whole night. As the first rays of the sun broke, I dozed off for a while and when I woke up everyone was still there. Ma was still holding on to the knife.
The crowd took a break in the morning. I don’t think we had ever been as happy as we were when dawn broke that day. It gave us an elemental sense of hope, of security. It was later that we realized that it was not only in our locality that this had happened. These incidents had occured all over the Kashmir Valley at around the same time. It was well orchestrated. It was meant to frighten us into exile. Three hundred kilometres away, in a former palace, a man spent that night feeling absolutely helpless. Jagmohan had been sent by New Delhi to take charge as the governor of Jammu and Kashmir.
On the afternoon of January 19, he had boarded a BSF plane that had brought him to Jammu. While being driven to the Raj Bhavan, he saw people lining up on both sides of the road to greet him. Jagmohan was a very popular administrator and, during a previous stint in 1986 as the governor of the state, he had won the hearts of the people by undertaking large-scale reforms. That night in Jammu’s Raj Bhavan, the phone began to ring from 10 p.m. onwards. ‘They are coming to kill us,’ a scared Pandit from somewhere in the Valley whispered to him. ‘Please ask the army to help us,’ begged another. But that night, Jagmohan was not in a position to help them at all.
The administration, he knew, had collapsed completely. Some sections of the police were sympathetic to militant groups. No one was in charge. And as usual, in New Delhi, the babus in the government had no idea what was happening. On Doordarshan, as Jagmohan would recount in his memoirs later, a special programme on the ‘ethnic revolt’ in Azerbaijan was being telecast. Only a week earlier, in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, a massive crowd demanding independence from Soviet Russia had attacked the Christian Armenian community, killing hundreds in a bloodied frenzy, and looting their homes and business establishments. And oblivious to New Delhi, a similar episode was about to occur in Kashmir.
Only the gods could save the Pandits now
- Excerpted from 'Our Moon has Blood Clots', a memoir of the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits, written by senior journalist Rahul Pandita.
Today is the darkest day in the history of Kashmir -
January 19, 2024 marks the beginning of the 34th year of exile of the Kashmiri Pandits. 19 Januaryis observed as Exodus day by Kashmiri Hindus.
Who are the Kashmiri Hindus??
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A little History on Kashmir -
Kashmir acceding to India -
The Multiple Exoduses -
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Today Kashmiri Hindus still live like refugees in their own country. Their homes and properties remain vacant or occupied.
The valley awaits them.
And we remember their loss and their suffering.
Always and forever.
vickywong:
Alphonsus Ligouri, eighteenth-century founder of the Redemptorists, wrote, “Persecutions are to the works of God what the frosts of winter are to plants; far from destroying them, they help them strike their roots deep in the soil and make them more full of life.”
Lord, where your church is weak...