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A woman called by God One of Sri Lanka's courageous church-planters is Mrs Indrani Abeysinghe (49), who grew up in Kirimetimulla, in the Buddhist region in southern Sri Lanka. She became a Christian as an adult while living away from the village, returning in the mid-1990s with her four children. Since 2001, she has run a house church in her home, now with some 20 believers. She has been threatened and intimidated, and her home has been stoned. Then at about midnight on Christmas night, 2002, the family was violently assaulted. Only by God's will they escaped with their lives. There is little doubt that the well organised attackers, who cut all electricity and wore masks to avoid being identified, were there to kill them. The family have left their home and are sheltering elsewhere. They are severely traumatised, yet Mrs Abeysinghe desperately wants to continue her ministry.
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