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  Graham Stewart Staines: His Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gladys in her evidence says that Graham Staines told her that when he saw the photograph (that of Josia Soren) he was filled with sorrow and compassion for those suffering from leprosy.
Gladys in her evidence clarified that the Mayurbhanj Leprosy Home is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, whereas the EMSM is a society registered in Australia.
Staines was also actively involved in the local Rotary Club and participated in their pulse polio and Hepatitis 'B' vaccination programme He was hoping to get a referral hospital for leprosy patients as presently patients have to go outside the.
www.hvk.org /specialrepo/wadhwa/Graham.html   (1400 words)

  
 The Hindu : Front Page : When we forgive, we allow wounds to heal: Gladys Staines
Staines' husband Graham and their two sons, Philip, 10, and Timothy, 8, were burnt to death by a communal lynch mob in Manoharpur village in eastern Orissa.
Staines, who left for Kolkata from Baripada on Wednesday, was due to catch a flight to Australia along with her 18-year-old daughter, Esther, late this evening.
Staines had visited Australia a few times after Graham Staines and their two sons, Timothy, 8, and Philip, 10, were burnt to death by a mob at Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district on the night of January 23, 1999.
www.hinduonnet.com /2004/07/16/stories/2004071603950100.htm   (685 words)

  
 Articles
They shared a profound appreciation for the spiritual glow in the way Gladys responded to her personal tragedy as well as committed herself to the service of the victims of leprosy in continuation of her slain husband's work.
Through her spiritually enlightened reaction Gladys had arrested the forces of irreligion and challenged us to respond constructively to the hurts as well as the opportunities of life.
In her simple and sparse remarks to the pilgrims Gladys was emphatic that both in their life of service and in her spirit of forgiveness, the Staines family is empowered by biblical spirituality.
www.swamiagnivesh.com /paradigm.htm   (1284 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As she awaits the verdict in the Graham Staines murder case, the widow of the Australian-born missionary who was burnt alive inside his station wagon along with sons Philip and Timothy on January 22, 1999, betrays little emotion.
Gladys June Staines was a picture of strength on Monday when a CBI court in Bhubaneswar deferred the verdict till September 15.
Four years later, Gladys’ composure is as steely as ever while visiting the home four times a week or running after the Orissa chief minister and bureaucrats to clear obstacles coming in the way of a planned 40-bed leprosy referral hospital here.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030911/asp/nation/story_2354544.asp   (517 words)

  
 Gladys focuses on Staines's work   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gladys Staines continues to work at the home for leprosy patients set up by her late husband back in 1982 at Baripada in Orissa's tribal-dominated Mayurbhanj district.
Staines met her husband while she was serving on a youth mission in Orissa back in the early 1980s.
Gladys Staines had the courage and the conviction to pardon and forgive the same people who killed her husband and sons.She has risen above all...
in.rediff.com /news/2003/sep/14staines.htm   (512 words)

  
 Essay by William A. S. Sarjeant
Gladys Mitchell published her first book in 1929, at the very apogee of the "Golden Age" of detective fiction writing, and her last posthumously in 1984, long after that age had ended.
It is unsurprising, therefore, that Gladys Mitchell's personality, preferences, and prejudices should be echoed in her writings; but it is interesting to note how neatly she has shared her own attributes and concerns between her two principal characters, Mrs.
Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell was born on April 19, 1901 at Cowley in Oxfordshire.
www.gladysmitchell.com /sarjeantessay.htm   (3495 words)

  
 INDOlink - India General News - Gladys Staines Leaves India ‘Temporarily’ For Australia
Mumbai, July 15 (NNN): Gladys Staines, the widow of a murdered Australian missionary, Graham Staines on Thursday left India ‘for the time being’ after spending more than 20 years working among leprosy patients in one of the country's poorest states, saying she is tired and needs to rest.
Staines is left India more than five years after her husband and two sons were burnt to death by activists of the Bajrang Dal in Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district.
Gladys later began work on a hospital named after her husband, the Graham Staines Memorial Hospital, which is now complete and handed over to the Christian Fellowship Hospital of Dindigal, Karnataka.
www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=071504012855   (736 words)

  
 The Hindu : I have forgiven them: Gladys Staines
Staines said in a statement issued from her Mission House residence in Baripada town of Orissa's Mayurbhanj district.
Staines said : "I have no comments regarding the law taking its own course in crime and punishment." We are called to be under subjection to the governing authorities.
Staines lives in Baripada, Orissa where she is running the leprosy home that was managed by her late husband.
www.hinduonnet.com /2003/09/23/stories/2003092305471200.htm   (288 words)

  
 Online Asia news - Missionary widow's return   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gladys Staines, the Australian missionary recently awarded India's second-highest civilian honour, has been speaking about her return to the country in which her husband and children were killed in 1999 by religious extremists.
Mrs Staines was given the Padma Shri in recognition of her work with leprosy patients in Orissa, where she stayed to continue helping after her husband Graham and their two sons - Philip, 10, and Timothy, eight - were burned alive as they slept by an extremist Hindu mob.
Gladys stayed in India to oversee completion of the 40-bed Graham Staines Memorial Hospital, but left in July 2004 saying she was tired and needed a rest.
www.online-asia-news.com /news-61459.html   (1240 words)

  
 The Christian Post   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
India bestowed a prestigious civilian honor to Australian Gladys Staines, widow of missionary Graham Staines who was killed by a Hindu mob along with their two sons in 1999.
Staines, 54, said she was "absolutely overwhelmed and stunned by the news".
Staines and her husband Graham had spent more than 30 years working with leprosy patients in Baripada district in the eastern state of Orissa.
www.christianpost.com /php_functions/print_friendly.php?tbl_name=missions&id=1375   (481 words)

  
 India Honors Gladys Staines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Staines was given the "Padma Shri" award for social work.
After his murder, Staines publicly forgave the killers and stayed in India to see the hospital on which they had been working, completed.
In 2003, one man was sentenced to death and 12 others to prison for life for the killings of her family.
www.bwanet.org /News/05-jan-mar/indiahonorstaines.htm   (140 words)

  
 Charisma Magazine Online
In 1999, Gladys Staines lost her missionary husband and two young sons in a horrific attack by Hindu extremists.
Gladys Staines, 50, is a wonder to many, a mystery to some.
In court, while Gladys was being questioned as a prosecution witness during the trial of her husband's killers, only a few of her husband's personal items were produced for her to identify.
www.charismamag.com /a.php?ArticleID=9602   (1849 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: Gladys Staines to build leprosy hospital in husband's memory
Gladys Staines, the wife of Australian-born missionary Graham Stewart Staines, is planning to expand the work of her slain husband among the tribals of north Orissa by building a forty-bed referral hospital for leprosy patients with state-of-the-art facilities.
Gladys said the attitude of the local administration and the people to her work was ''very positive'' and added she had not received any threats after her husband's killing.
Regarding the killers of her husband and sons, Gladys said she had forgiven them and ''it is up to the police to carry out the investigations.'' She said her daughter coped with the tragedy ''very well and had forgiven its perpetrators.'' ''Mummy I cannot understand why people cannot forgive,'' she quoted her daughter as saying.
specials.rediff.com /news/1999/nov/19oris.htm   (517 words)

  
 I cannot talk about the future: Gladys Staines - Sify.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In January 1999, Staines and their two young sons, Philip and Timothy, were burnt to death by a mob allegedly comprising Bajrang Dal activists while they were asleep in their vehicle at Manoharpur village in neighbouring Keonjhar district.
Gladys sounds quite passionate about a reconstructive surgical hospital for leprosy patients, that was her husband's dream.
Staines and his sons were asleep in their station wagon at Manoharpur in Keonjhar district on the night of January 22, 1999, when a crowd reportedly attacked the vehicle.
sify.com /fullstory.php?id=13251696   (633 words)

  
 archive: Gladys braves all odds to work on Staines' dream
Gladys, who was here on a personal visit, told The Hindustan Times, that she is pulling out all stops to get the hospital project going, despite the setback it suffered after her husband's gory death.
Dressed in a simple salwar-kameez, there is nothing in Gladys' demeanour that suggests she is brooding over the burning alive of her husband alongwith their two children in January this year.
Gladys is not clear about the cost - the "crores, lakhs and the millions confuse me," she says.
www.media-watch.org /articles/1099/128.html   (558 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | South Asia | Widow keeps missionary's memory alive
Gladys Staines still lives in India, nearly five years after her Australian missionary husband Graham and their two young sons were burnt alive by a mob in the eastern state of Orissa.
Mrs Staines is building a clinic in memory of her husband, who arrived in dirt-poor Orissa in the 1960s.
Gladys Staines also plans to realise her husband's "big" dream by setting up a 40-bed general hospital in the leprosy patients' home campus.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/3129222.stm   (580 words)

  
 The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In her native Australia—the land of sun, sand, blue skies and beaches—Gladys Staines, the widow of the slain Australian missionary Graham Staines, is attempting to build a new life for herself.
Gladys left Baripada in July, four years after her husband and sons Philip, 11, and Timothy, 7, were torched to death in Manoharpur in Orissa (condemned worldwide as the Manoharpur massacre) by the notorious Dara Singh and 12 accomplices.
Gladys insists it was for personal reasons that she left India.
www.the-week.com /24sep19/currentevents_article1.htm   (1018 words)

  
 The Australian: Slain missionary widow returns (archived)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gladys Staines, 53, and her daughter Esther, 18, had remained in India to continue their husband and father Graham Staines' fight to help the poor, especially those suffering from leprosy.
Graham Staines and his sons Philip, 10, and Timothy, 8, were burnt to death in 1999 by Hindu fanatics as they slept in their jeep in Manoharpur village.
John Staines said Gladys and Esther had been back a few times to visit Australia since the tragedy in 1999, but it would be good to have them back for good.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,10154227^1702,00.html   (323 words)

  
 City - Forgiving is a process: Gladys Staines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yesterday, Gladys Staines, wife of Australian missionary Graham Staines, was in the city as chief guest for the Centenary Hindustani Methodist Church’s 125th anniversary celebrations at Shanmukhananda Hall.
Gladys, who decided to stay back in Baripada, Orissa, where her husband, a Baptist missionary, worked with lepers, is busy spreading the message of peace, love and grace.
Gladys kept away steadfastly from all political questions, but fiercely denied that she was preaching in Baripada, “I am only spreading the message of love,” she said.
web.mid-day.com /news/city/2002/november/37549.htm   (353 words)

  
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Gladys Staines, 53, is the missionary wife of Graham Staines, an Australian Baptist missionary who worked among lepers in northeastern Indian state of Orissa for 30 years.
In January 1999, Graham Staines and his sons Philip and Timothy were burnt alive by Dara Singh and his dozen accomplices while they were sleeping in their station wagon at Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district.
People ask Gladys if the punishment of her husband's killers is a part of providence, where does the need for forgiveness arise.
reportage.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_reportage_archive.html   (1190 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 240   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
India Wednesday conferred a prestigious civilian honour on Australian Gladys Staines, a social worker and widow of missionary Graham Staines who was killed by a Hindu mob along with their two sons in 1999.
Despite the tragedy Staines stayed on in India with her daughter, overseeing the completion of a hospital for leprosy patients in Orissa.
Gladys Staines, widow of slain Australian missionary Graham Staines, leaves a court after making her deposition in the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, Bhubaneswar on 12 June 2002.
www.thedailystar.net /2005/01/27/d501271304111.htm   (288 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Northeast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gladys’ husband Graham Staines and two young sons were killed on January 22, 1999 at Manoharpur village in Orissa, when the station wagon in which they were sleeping was set ablaze by Dara Singh and his gang.
Gladys was here to participate in Nagaland Transformation, sponsored by World Vision, that was organised by the Evangelical Fellowship of India and the Nagaland Christian Forum.
Gladys later said whatever she had been able to do was “not by my strength but by the strength of God through Christ.”
www.telegraphindia.com /1031126/asp/northeast/story_2611375.asp   (370 words)

  
 :: Dr. Jobs Mision ::
Staines Graham, who proclaimed the Gospel all over the world, through his martyrdom at Manoharpur village, led several non-Christians in India to believe in Christ.
His wife Gladys leaves India because of her old father and the study of her daughter but we hope she will visit us again since India is in her heart and her husband was immersed in the soil of India.
Reverend Staines and their two young sons, Philip and Timothy, were burnt to death by a mob at Manoharpur village in neighbouring Keonjhar district.
www.drjobsmission.com /2004_aug_1.html   (781 words)

  
 Gladys Stains: Rebuild their lives around Grahsm's work
About 200 km from Manoharpur, in Baripada, where Garaham Staines spent over 30 years serving leprosy patients, his wife Gladys and daughter Esther are trying to reconstruct their lives once again around his work.
Gladys Staines admitted that the last one year has been very difficult of her, as she settled down for an informal interview with this correspondent in the backyard of the Baptist church.
Though Gladys Staines had asked this correspondent to not address any questions to her daughter, Esther was gradually drawn into the conversation.
www.brethrenassembly.org /articles/stains5.html   (766 words)

  
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 Kalam meets Gladys Staines
President A P J Abdul Kalam on Thursday met Gladys Staines, widow of slain Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines, in Baripada in Orissa.
Graham Staines and his two minor sons -- Philip and Timothy -- were burnt alive, as they slept in a jeep at Manoharpur in Keonjhar district in Orissa on January 23, 1999.
Gladys looks after the leprosy home in Baripada, which was earlier being run by her husband.
specials.rediff.com /news/2003/may/15oris.htm   (125 words)

  
 Events: Woman Of The Week; Arun Jaitley; Oct 5, 2003. The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gladys has carried on from where Staines left off-tending to the ulcerous wounds of the patients at Mayurbhanj Leprosy Home in Baripada where he spent 35 years of his life.
Glady's indoctrination to her faith began at an early age.
Today, Gladys continues to live in the mission home in Baripada and, in her darkest moments she must recall the patter of her sons' feet and her husband's laughter.
www.the-week.com /23oct05/events8.htm   (945 words)

  
 Open Doors USA -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gladys Staines, widow of the slain missionary, has remained in Orissa to work among the leprosy patients her husband cared for during his 34-year missionary career.
The triple murder of Staines and his sons Philip, 11, and Timothy, 7, sent shock waves around the world and demonstrated that Christians are persecuted in India.
Staines now directs her energies to the welfare of leprosy patients her husband cared for.
www.opendoorsusa.org /ArchiveDisplay.asp?ID=6C1E8F1B-2C2C-4BC4-B882-B21F420804EF&Category=News   (978 words)

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