Sunday, February 27, 2011

Indian Christians Facing Hindu Persecution

I've been told it's only in one province--don't get the wrong idea. But remember your brethren across the world.  Excerpts:
Nineteen Catholic and Protestant bishops have staged a sit-in protest against a report that clears Hindu fundamentalists of a series of attacks on Christian targets in southern Karnataka state in September 2008.

The clerics, including 13 Catholic bishops, were joined by nearly 500 Church leaders in the southern city of Bangalore, where they again criticised the findings of a commission chaired by Judge B. K. Somashekhara for not identifying the attackers in 57 incidents involving Christian churches and other sites.

The demonstrators gathered in central Bangalore, with the bishops sitting on chairs in their clerical garb under a midday sun...

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