ICC Note:
Christians in India continue to suffer persecution from Hindu radicals without any help from the Indian government. Often local police are among the persecutors. If not among the persecutors, police often turn a blind eye towards the suffering of Christians attacked by Hindu radicals. Will Christians ever have equal rights in India?
12/29/2012 India (AsiaNews) – Police are “quick to respond to the demands of Hindu nationalists,” but are “silent spectators when it comes to violence against Christians,” said Sajan George, president of the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) as he spoke about the 40th anti-Christian attack in Karnataka this year.
On Wednesday, activists from the Bajrang Dal forced the parish priest of the Stella Maris Church in Kalmady (Udupi District) to remove a banner dedicated to Our Lady of Velankanni, whose silver jubilee it is this year. The banner showed an image of Our Lady and a Brahmin with a vase in his hands.
According to tradition, various Marian appearances have been recorded in the area since the 16th century. In the first case, the Virgin, her son in her arms, asked a Hindu boy for some of the milk he was carrying.
Fr. Alban D’Souza raised the banner on 8 December, to mark the 25th anniversary of the chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Velankanni. However, for Anil Bangera, a local Bajrang Dal leader, the banner “hurt the religious feelings of the Hindu community of Kalmady.”
After informing the police, Hindu nationalists told the parish priest to remove the banner and apologize for the insult.
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