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CHENNAI – “Death to Santa Claus!” “Via Santa Claus!” “Death to the church! ” “To death the missionaries!” A puppet dressed in red, complete with a hat and a white cotton beard, is impaled on a spear. They insult him, spit on him, throw shoes and slippers on him. Then, in this sad symbolic Christmas lynching, the Hindu militants of the city of Agra set the puppet on fire and throw it to the ground, watching it burn slowly as their anti-Christian hymns continue.
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