Violence Continues in Orissa, another Christian Killed

Februart 21, 2009) Another Christian has been killed in the State of Orissa. The lifeless body of Hrudayananda Nayak was found Thursday in the forest near the village of Rudangia, near Ghumusar Udayagiri, a city in the district of Kandhamal. The 40-year-old man had disappeared the day before. Sajan George, national president of the Global Council of Indian Christians informed that after Nayak accompanied his sister to a place five kilometres from the city he was stopped on his way back by a group of Hindu extremists and vanished thereafter. Yesterday afternoon around 4 pm some Christian residents from local villages walking along the path Nayak had taken saw some blood and a slipper in a roadside bush. Aware that a man had disappeared they informed police who came to investigate. After a brief search by police and the Christians, Nayak's body was found, lifeless. Rudangia is a predominantly Christian village, some 260 kilometres from the State capital of Bhubaneshwar