There seems to be no end to the sufferings of our fellow believers in Orissa, India. The Hindu newspaper reports new attacks on three villages. At least two persons, including a woman, were killed and more than a dozen injured. About 300 houses were burnt down.
Conversion to Hinduism a condition for  Christians to return home in Kandhamal

Forced conversion of Christians by Hindutva groups has become the order
of the day in Kandhamal district. Not only have Christian families
suffered the loss of their homes, possessions and places of worship in
sustained attacks by marauding mobs of Hindutva supporters from August
24, they now cannot return to their villages unless they convert.

Christian priests, pastors and nuns are unlikely to be able to
return to their places of work in Kandhamal in the near future. Some
have been marked and get regular threatening calls. “I am a tribal and
my nephews are searching to kill me,” said Father Lakshmikant, Parish
priest of the St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Baliguda.

He had to flee from the mobs that were after him and spend days in
the forest before he reached Bhubaneshwar. He is now in charge of a
relief camp at the Missionaries of Charity Centre for Leprosy in the
capital.

Meanwhile, thousands of Christian families in relief camps, who have
rejected the option of conversion, have little hope of returning to
their homes and villages that they left more than a month ago.

I have been able to speak with some of our friends and the seem to be relatively safe at the moment, however we need to continue to pray for the violence to come to an end and for peace and harmony to be restored in the entire nation of India.