Dr. Dhirendra Kumar Sahu

Participants also included Bishop Johannes Pujasumarta of Bandung, Indonesia; Protestant Bishop Dhirendra Kumar Sahu, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in India; and Maryknoll Father William LaRousse, ecumenical secretary of the FABC Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.

As early results of the elections indicate a clear win of the outgoing secular federal government coalition over the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the general secretary of the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI), Bishop Dr Dhirendra Kumar Sahu, told the news website Christian Today ( http://www.christiantoday.com/article/indian.chri stians.celebrate.early.election.results/23371.htm )he was greatly elated by this outcome. "The BJP has been completely wiped out of Orissa," he said, adding that "Christians in Kandhamal are jubilant and there is still a sign of hope for them."

We have been in touch with Bishop Dhirendra Kumar Sahu, General Secretary of the NCCI, and we received news of churches being burnt and Christians attacked in the state of Karnataka.
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National Council of Churches in India officials Bishop Dhirendra Kumar Sahu and Bishop Yakob Mar Iranios were among those who graced the celebration.

As early results of the elections indicate a clear win of the outgoing secular federal government coalition over the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the general secretary of the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI), Bishop Dr Dhirendra Kumar Sahu, told the news website Christian Today he was greatly elated by this outcome.

"The BJP has been completely wiped out of Orissa," he said, adding that "Christians in Kandhamal are jubilant and there is still a sign of hope for them."

Eastern Himalayas (India): Dhirendra Sahu (Bishop)

As early results of the elections indicate a clear win of the outgoing secular federal government coalition over the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the general secretary of the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI), Bishop Dr Dhirendra Kumar Sahu, told the news website Christian Today he was greatly elated by this outcome.

"The BJP has been completely wiped out of Orissa," he said, adding that "Christians in Kandhamal are jubilant and there is still a sign of hope for them."

Dr Dhirendra Sahu (Theology, ministerial, 1979-82 and then theological research 1988-92) has been consecrated, as a Baptist minister, as Bishop of Eastern Himalaya in the united Church of North India.He recently shared, with the Principal, in conversations in Myanmar between the Baptist World Alliance and the Anglican Communion.

To: Bishop Dhirendra Sahu

Eastern Himalayas (North India), Bishop Dhirendra K Sahu