{"id":26157,"date":"2013-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/india-481\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:56:36","slug":"india-481","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/prayer\/india-481\/","title":{"rendered":"\u5370\u5ea6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>India is the world&#8217;s largest democracy \u2013 a country of millions of people, hundreds of languages and various religions. But the diversity isn&#8217;t always peaceful. In Kandhamal District, Orissa State in August 2008, a devastating wave of violence against the Christian community resulted in at least 90 deaths and an estimated 54,000 people forcibly displaced.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five years on, the community is still shattered. There are major flaws in the delivery of justice, as only a few people have been charged with the violence which ruined so many lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This week please:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Pray for the community in Kandhamal: for justice, rehabilitation and reconciliation;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for the human rights defenders that CSW works with, particularly those helping minority groups;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to bless efforts to combat targeted and communal violence;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that &#8216;anti-conversion&#8217; legislation (banning religious conversions) would be repealed or reformed;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for activists pursuing legal cases to challenge anti-conversion laws;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for pastors and church congregations who experience persistent small scale attacks which don&#8217;t make the headlines;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that the voices calling for peaceful coexistence between different groups will be heard in the lead-up to the elections.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is the world&#8217;s largest democracy a country of millions of people, hundreds of languages and various religions. But the diversity isn&#8217;t always peaceful. In Kandhamal District, Orissa State in August 2008, a devastating wave of violence against the Christian community resulted in at least 90 deaths and an estimated 54,000 people forcibly displaced.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","regions":[124,121],"class_list":["post-26157","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","hentry","regions-india","regions-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40827,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26157\/revisions\/40827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}