News tagged with "anti-christian-violence"

Communists join New Delhi rally for Orissa

Leading communists joined church people and activists from around 50 organizations at a rally in New Delhi on Aug.25, to mark the second anniversary of the anti-Christian violence in Orissa.
Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, general secretary of Communist Party of India, addressed the rally near the Indian parliament, saying his party “condemns the heinous crime” committed by [...]

Orissa violence ’sought Christian enslavement’

Anti-Christian violence in Orissa was an orchestrated attempt by Hindu fanatics to enslave lower cast people, a special tribunal in New Delhi has said.
Religion was used as an excuse to execute their plans, a “jury” of former judges and eminent citizens said in a report at the end of a National People’s Tribunal (NPT), yesterday.
The [...]

Orissa tribunal shows ’secular maturity’

A people’s tribunal probing anti-Christian violence in Orissa shows the readiness of “people of goodwill” to defend India’s secular values, a local bishop says.
National Solidarity Forum (NSF), a coalition of various groups and movements began the three-day National People’s Tribunal on Sunday.
“The tribunal shows the maturity of Indian secularism,” said Bishop Sarat Chandra Nayak of [...]

Tribunal to ‘give voice’ to Orissa violence victims

A forum is organizing a people’s tribunal to highlight issues surrounding the anti-Christian violence in Orissa state two years ago.
National Solidarity Forum (NSF), a coalition of various groups and movements, says it will organize the National People’s Tribunal in New Delhi from August 22-24 to “give voice to the unheard.”
Anti-Christian violence in the tribal-dominated Kandhamal [...]

Police admit ‘failure’ led to Gojra violence

Police have apologized to Catholics for their failure to prevent anti-Christian violence in the Punjabi city of Gojra last year in which 10 people were killed, says Bishop Joseph Coutts of Faisalabad.
He told the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that after a memorial Mass he celebrated on Aug. 1, the first [...]

Court seeks info on anti-Christian violence

A Church leader in Madhya Pradesh has hailed the High Court’s decision to seek more information on violence suffered by Christians in the central Indian state.
“This is a very good sign that the court has understood the gravity of the situation and now we have a fair chance to present our case in a court [...]

Hindu in Orissa killing granted bail

A pro-Hindu political party leader, sentenced to seven years’ jail for killing a Christian during the Orissa riots, was granted bail July 7.
The Orissa High Court released Manoj Pradhan and his accomplice Praful Malik on bail on condition that Pradhan would not tamper with evidence in other cases against him.
The decision has deeply disappointed Kanaka [...]

Orissa mission station abandoned after riots

An Catholic mission station, where a woman was burnt alive and a clergyman attacked during the Orissa riots, now lies priestless and abandoned.
Some 80 Hindu extremists vandalized the mission station at Khutpali village in Sambalpur diocese on Aug. 25, 2008, two days after anti-Christian broke out in the eastern state.
Divine Word Father Edward Sequeira, who [...]

Orissa riot sentence ‘falls short of justice’

A verdict of culpable homicide for two men accused of killing a paralyzed Christian during anti-Christian riots in Orissa has disappointed Church people.
The lenient punishment of six years’ jail for the two would encourage more crimes, said Father Dibakar Parichha, a lawyer assisting the 2008 riot victims. “It was the gruesome killing of a man, [...]

Church ‘failed the test’ over Orissa violence

The Church’s response to the anti-Christian violence in Orissa was inadequate, a priest from the state says.
The massacre offered Church agencies and groups a golden opportunity to test their capabilities in a challenging situation, but most of them failed the test, Father Ajay Singh said.
Lack of funds, insensitivity to the crisis and poor coordination all [...]

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