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Podcast: Mission Network News - Asia
Episode: Bangladesh unrest halts Bible translation work
Description: Bangladesh (MNN) — Violence against religious minorities in Bangladesh continues unabated.
Wycliffe Associates’ Tony Tophoney says former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left a power vacuum when she fled to India last week. Minorities are paying the price of lax governmental control.
“The police stepped back and kind of ‘circled the wagons’ [and] the people left out on the fringes of the society are the minority [groups] like Hindus, Buddhists, and Christians,” Tophoney says.
“The opposition party has been waiting for a moment like this. They were burning down Christian churches and Hindu temples, beating the believers...