Graham Staines

Graham Stuart Staines was an Australian Christian missionary who, along with his two sons Philip and Timothy , was burnt to death by a gang while sleeping in his station wagon at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district in Odisha, India onJanuary 1999. In 2003, a Bajrang Dal activist, Dara Singh, was convicted of leading the gang that murdered Graham Staines and his sons, and was sentenced to life in prison.

Staines was born in 1941 at Palmwoods, Queensland. He visited India in 1965 for the first time and joined Evangelical Missionary Society of Mayurbhanj , working in this remote tribal area, with a long history of missionary activity. He took over the management of the Mission at Baripada in 1983. He helped establish the Mayurbhanj Leprosy Home as a registered society in 1982.

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