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As normalcy has limped back to Manipur, Churches have taken stock of the damages they have suffered during the four-day mayhem that ravaged the northeastern Indian state.
According to a list publi-shed by the Churachandpur District Christian Goodwill Church, as many as 121 churches and buildings belonging to 15 denominations were torched or destroyed in the ethnic violence that began on May 3 across Manipur.
The violence has claimed more than 70 lives and wounded 200 people. According to an official record, some 30,000 people have been displaced.
According to Archbishop Dominic Lumon of Imphal, the head of the Catholic Church in Manipur, about 45,000 people now live in relief camps in the valley and the hills. Around 13,800 are in Imphal west, around 11,800 in Imphal East, around 4,500 in Bishnupur, 5,500 in Churachandpur, around 7,000 people in Kangpokpi district.
Christianity, with several denominations, is the second most followed religion in Manipur, according to 2011 census data of India.
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