Story number 3 for 20 Feb 2002

(India)–The BBC is reporting that one of the men accused of the 1999 brutal murder of missionary Graham Staines and his sons has admitted to his part in the crime in an Orissa state court. The man accused of setting the fire, Dara Singh, says he did it because he was angry about “forced conversions” of Hindus. The Staines’ had spent nearly 30 years in Eastern India working with lepers in a Christian outreach.