Subject: Murderer of Indian nun confesses, converts proclaims Christians are
India's Hope
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Murderer of Indian Nun Confesses, Converts and Proclaims Christians are India's
Hope
Asia News (www.asianews.it/)
Samandar Singh killed a Catholic nun in 1995. After that, he converted to
Christianity and today he is a different man. He helps Tribals and for him
Sister Rani's family has become his own. Sadly, he agrees that a climate of
anti-Christian hatred is currently sweeping across India . He urges his
compatriots to see the truth in the presence of missionaries in the country.
UDAYA NAGAR, India (Asia News) - I accept full responsibility for my heinous
murder of Sr Rani Maria. I cannot say that I was instigated, because my own
hands stabbed her repeatedly and for this I will regret my actions till the day
I die, Samandar Singh told Asia News. He is the man who on 25 February 1995
stabbed to death Sister Rani Maria. The diocese of Indore , where she worked,
has ended the diocesan leg of the inquiry into her death. Now the Vatican will
have to decide whether she died a martyr of the faith or not.
Whatever the outcome of that will be, Sister Rani Maria has already
accomplished a miracle. Her assassin has repented and has become a member of
her family. In my own small way, he said, I try to follow her example,
helping those who are less fortunate than me, like Tribal Christians and all
those who are marginalized.
After his arrest in connection with the nun's murder, he was tried and
sentenced to prison, where he spent 11 years. During that time, his wife
divorced him and his first son died.
Behind prison walls, he began plotting how he could take revenge against the
man who pushed him to kill the nun. But he also received a visit from another
nun, Sister Selmi Paul, who happened to be the murdered nun's own sister. She
hugged him and called him brother. He was profoundly touched by it, so much so
that from this embrace his journey of repentance began. He gave up plans for
revenge and accepted the sorrow caused by the murder.
Eventually, Samandar war released because of a petition signed by Sister Rani's
family, the provincial of the Clarist congregation and the bishop of Indore .
When his release was slow in coming, a delegation went to see the local
governor to plead his case. Only you Christians can truly forgive, the latter
said. You are a great example. Go, I shall do all I can to get him released.
Once he was free again, Samandar began to treat Sister Rani's family as his
own. I regularly visit her tomb, he said. For me, it is like a sanctuary of
peace and strength.
I want everyone to know that Christians work to make India great. The
missionaries give us hope through their service, which is to make us a strong
and independent people.
He does realise though that India 's rightwing hate Christians. Before they
drove me to kill, I heard so many hate-filled lies about the missionaries and
Christians. They used to tell me that Christians converted people through
tricks and that their work with the poor was only for show. Now however I can
say without a doubt that the missionaries do nothing but work and help the poor
and the marginalized. They have not secret design, other than serve God.
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