Killer of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his 2 sons freed from prison despite life sentence
Hindu extremist Mahendra Hembram receives hero's welcome after release: 'Hail lord Rama'
NEW DELHI — One of the Hindu extremists sentenced to life in prison for burning Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons to death in India 25 years ago was given a hero’s welcome after he was released on April 16.
Mahendra Hembram walked out of Keonjhar jail last week, freed by the Odisha State Sentence Review Board for “good behavior.” Hembram, 50, emerged from prison to supporters who garlanded him and chanted the Hindu slogan, “Jai Shri Ram [Hail lord Rama].”
“The way Hembram was welcomed with garlands and taken on a celebration procession by a crowd shouting Hindu slogans was a shocking sight for anybody believing in peace and tranquillity of a society,” Ajay Singh, a Catholic priest and a human rights activist in Odisha, told Morning Star News.
John Dayal, spokesperson for the United Christian Forum, was equally shocked.
“The obscene welcome accorded to the convict on his release was to be seen to be believed, and totally exposes the politics of the release,” Dayal told Morning Star News.
Hembram immediately proclaimed his innocence, though in 2002 he once declared himself the sole culprit for the murders, according to court records.
After his release from the prison some 200 kilometers (over 124 miles) from Bhubaneshwar, capital of Odisha state, Hembram told reporters, “I spent 25 years in jail after being falsely implicated in an incident related to religious conversion. Today, I have been released.”
Jailer Manaswini Naik explained the legal basis for the release.
“Hembram has been released following a decision by the State Sentence Review Board. The prison directorate informed about it in a letter on Tuesday [April 15]. He has been released after 25 years because of good behavior in accordance with the rules.”
Apparently, good behaviour doesn't include accepting responsibility for your crimes in India.
The release reopened wounds from one of India’s most shocking hate crimes and turned attention to the pending remission plea of Dara Singh, the main perpetrator who remains imprisoned in the same facility.
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UK: Two Muslim migrants set fire to a church in Wales
Remember, only racists oppose this. The UK will completely and voluntarily relinquish its national character, culture, and integrity in order not to be thought of as “racist.”
In Wales, Islamic migrants burn a Christian church
Union of Orthodox Journalists, April 27, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Two teenagers who arrived in the country from Pakistan have been detained on suspicion of arson.
In the city of Port Talbot (Wales), the police arrested two migrants from Pakistan on suspicion of deliberately setting fire to a church.
As local press reports, the fire occurred on Thursday evening, April 24, in a Methodist chapel building on Station Road in the city center.
Two teenagers, aged 14 and 15, who arrived in the country from Pakistan, were detained on suspicion of arson. The investigation is currently ongoing….
According to the Mid and West Wales Fire Service, the church building was seriously damaged by the fire….
Fr. Murphy’s loving heart is admirable. All too often today, however, people confuse love with niceness, which in this case would mean not challenging the boy’s jihadist sentiments and trying to disabuse him of them. He will have to attend a “deradicalization” program, but those are predicated upon the false assumption that the true Islam is peaceful, and thus that all that needs to be done is show jihadis how they’re misunderstanding Islam. Since they aren’t, this doesn’t work, and has never work anywhere it has been tried.
Irish teenager sentenced to eight years for Islamist attack on army chaplain
Press Association, April 29, 2025:
A teenager who was radicalised by Islamist extremist content online has been sentenced to eight years for the attempted murder of an Irish army chaplain.
The court heard that the boy had planned to kill a member of the Defence Forces as a form of protest.
Father Paul Murphy was stabbed seven times with a hunting knife while attempting to drive into Renmore Barracks in Galway at around 10.35pm on August 15.
The teenager, then aged 16, was arrested at the scene after being restrained by Irish soldiers.
The circumstances in which this happened are as terrifying as they are extraordinary
The boy, who cannot be identified because of his age, pleaded guilty to attempted murder earlier this year at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.
Giving his impact statement in April, Fr Murphy said he forgave his attacker before hugging him.
After Mr Justice Paul McDermott handed down the sentence on Tuesday, Fr Murphy embraced his attacker again in the courtroom….
Mr Justice McDermott sentenced the boy to 10 years in detention with the final two suspended with several conditions, including that he engages with de-radicalisational and educational programmes….
Fr Murphy said afterwards: “It’s very easy for us to fight hatred with hatred, and the world just becomes entrenched in hatred, and that’s the way the world is at the moment.
“I think St John says that God is love, and if we believe God to be love, well then we know that love is stronger than hate, and so to respond to hate with love will hopefully create a different world for us all to live in.
It certainly will! it will create a Muslim world where we will have endless opportunities to practice loving our enemies. It's one thing to love our enemies, but quite another to love the enemies of God. God says we should hate evil, not embrace it.
Psalm 97:10, "Hate evil, O you who love the LORD!"
Proverbs 8:1313 To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.
“This young boy is going to prison for a few years.
“My only hope and prayer is that he will return to society better able to manage his own life and also to make a more positive contribution to society….
And if he doesn't, he may try to kill someone else.
Nigeria: Sharia-Based Discrimination Against Christians
Christians in Nigeria are murdered almost daily through indiscriminate attacks led by Muslims. Nigerian Christian women are abducted, raped, gang-raped and sexually abused on a widespread scale.
Violence is only one of the many forms of persecution that Christians in Nigeria face. They are also subjected to systematic, Sharia-based discrimination, a situation which is particularly routine in the majority-Muslim northern states.
One of the methods used to silence Christian voices utilizes the deadly blasphemy laws. In many cases, Muslim mobs take the law into their own hands and execute Christians who they accuse of blasphemy.
In 2022, for instance, Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a second-year Christian college student, was stoned and burnt to death by a mob of Muslim students in Sokoto, Nigeria, after being accused of blasphemy against Islam.
The Council on Foreign Relations reported:
Ms. Yakubu was thought to have ‘blasphemed’ Islam and Prophet Muhammad after a voice note that she left on a WhatsApp group responding to another student’s post on the theme of Islam rubbed her colleagues the wrong way. After forcibly extracting her from a safe room where the school authorities had hoped to hide her, a mob comprising Ms. Yakubu’s colleagues struck her repeatedly with stones and clubs before eventually setting her lifeless body on fire, all the while shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is great).
Footage of the killing would later appear on various social media platforms.
A Nigerian analyst said:
Christians have to be very careful in discussions with Muslims as their words can easily be used against them. Christians have been killed when they were accused of speaking ill of Muhammad or Islam. Many opinions spoken by Christians are deliberately misconstrued and regarded as blasphemous. In several instances mobs have killed Christians for simply preaching in public or expressing opinions on issues.
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