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==Persecution of local Christians==

In late October 1947, leading into the Kashmir Conflict of 1947, localtribal tribesmeninvaders, mostly from the North West Frontier Province, now part of Pakistan, who had stormed Baramulla attacked the church, school, and hospital, killing the Mother Superior and Assistant Mother [[María Teresalina Sánchez|Sister M. Teresalina Joaquina FMM]].<ref name="Webster2007">{{cite book|author=John C. B. Webster|title=A social history of Christianity: North-West India since 1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BUQAQAAIAAJ|date=15 November 2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-569045-3|page=276}}</ref>

[[Jim Borst|Fr. Jim Borst MHM]], who has been working in Jammu and Kashmir since 1963, including serving as the principal of [[St. Joseph's School (Baramulla)|St. Joseph's School]], was given a Quit India Notice from Kashmir's Foreigners Registration Office in 2004.<ref name="Relations2005">{{cite book|author=Senate (U S) Committee on Foreign Relations|title=Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=04dlwzB2SvcC&pg=PA638|date=August 2005|publisher=Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-16-072552-4|pages=638–}}</ref>