Graham Staines Graham Staines i(18576078 works by)
Born: Established: 1941 Palmwoods, Palmwoods area, Nambour - Palmwoods - Yandina area, Sunshine Coast Hinterland, South East Queensland, Queensland, ; Died: Ceased: 23 Jan 1999
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India,
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South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
Gender: Male
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Australian Christian missionary, who had been working in India for evangelical missionary groups and in leprosy hospitals, since 1965.

In 1999, he and his two sons were killed by a group who claimed affiliation with a fundamentalist Hindu organisation, Bajrang Dal: the group set fire to the car in which the three were sleeping.

Graham Staines has been the subject of biographical works and a film.

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