Mangalore: Christian Leaders Denounce Attack on Minorities, Churches


Mangalore: Christian Leaders Denounce Attack on Minorities, Churches

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Daijiworld Media Network-Mangalore (JN/VA)

Mangalore, Nov 7: All India Christian Council (AICC) and Karnataka Missions Network (KMN) jointly organized a persecuted pastors/Christians conference followed by a press meet at Shanthi Kiran , Bajjodi here on Monday, November 7.

The AICC, an apex Human Rights and Freedom of Faith forum and KMN, a network of Christian institution in D K, denounced the statement made by Subramanuam Swamy and his efforts to target minorities and to sabotage communal violence prevention bill. They condemned the repeated occurrence of vandalism against the Christian institutions in Mangalore.

AICC Karnataka state president Justice Michael Saldanha, co-coordinator Anandkumar Jogul, Walter J Maben, chairman KMN, K L Ashok general secretary, Karnataka State Komu Sahaurrdha Vedike were present at the press meet.

Justice Saldanha lamented that the violence against minorities, particularly in the states of Karnaaka, Orissa, MP, UP, Gujarat, and North East is growing day by day. Media feels the attack on minorities as just a act of violence but we feel its terrorism, he expressed.
 
Though there is a significant development in Gujarat, Orissa, he said Karnataka is still the same. Here the forces of evil have not stopped, such attempts are done by the Sangh Parivar and its political allies to communize the environment in the state and the blame is put on the lunatic and isolated individuals, he opined.

He mentioned Gandhi’s quote, “An eye for and eye makes the world blind”. He insisted that we need judicial and legal action to be taken out and not just courtesy from the government.

Walter J Maben addressing the press brought forth the recent attacks in the city of Mangalore at a Chapel near Padua High school, St Theresa High School, Bendur and Alphonsa Church in Kankanday and urged the law enforcing authorities to actively pursue the cases. He noted that more than 1,000 people and pastors have become the victims already.

K L Ashok insisted for a quick action and requested the present CM to bring back the communal harmony which is getting lost due to such incidences.

  

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  • Adv. Harry D'souza, kolachikambla, mulki, mumbai

    Tue, Nov 08 2011

    Justice Saldanha you were a upright judge when you have been appointed at Bombay High Court. But You were transferred to Karnataka because you were getting media publicity. Now you are in hand of Catholic fundamentalism. Please check the charactor of caholic priests. I am getting lots of complaints against them.

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  • Walter, Bajpe/USA

    Tue, Nov 08 2011

    Indian politicians and elected people and many justice oriented officials have forgotten the very fact the Mahathma Gandhi held a crucifix (Jesus dying on the cross) in his room after the independence and before he was shot. The only reason he is not proclaimed or canonized as a saint is because he was not baptized. He preached non-violence and secularism embracing Indian people of all casts and religions. He did not preach any violence against Christians or minorities.
    India has flourished under the guidance and direction of Christian leadership as well as other minority leaderships. The current perpetrators of conversion allegations against Christians and minorities and communal violence are nothing short of “hooligans” and “criminals” and Mr. Subramanuam Swamy has stooped below the level of human dignity preached by Gandhi and has enlisted himself to the class of hooligans and criminals by his efforts to target minorities and to sabotage communal violence prevention bill.

    India is a civilized society. The civilized people of all races and casts and religions shall not tolerate repeated occurrence of vandalism against the Christian institutions in Mangalore or anywhere else. Many of the perpetrators are educated in the esteem Christians institutions and then turn against the Christians institutions after getting the benefits. Religious tolerance must prevail if Indians are to prosper and India has to lead in the coming century. Remember Prime Minister Nehru, who came to USA many times and received unlimited financial and food support that is because India promoted secularism and not for communal violence.

    Just examine the world’s population. Indians are in every corners of the world and they are well educated and established. Christians, Hindus, and Muslims- they are God’s children may be Mr. Subramanian Swamy is not. He needs to be converted into the civilized society and made to understand the urgency of enactment of communal violence prevention bill to prosecute and remove undesirable extremists from the civilized society. Ramsene, shivasene, etc are not elected parties. Their motives are to destroy the Indian civilization. They should be outlawed and leaders should be brought to justice. They serve no purpose other than to destroy India’s economy and religious tolerance and respect for each other.

    Decades ago, every school children was praying to dissolve communism in the former Soviet Union and China. The prayer paved the way for the liberation of former soviet territories. China has embarked on a reform path, where Christians are free to worship. Whereas, India is turning the clock backward through some unfit and misfit extremists in the society. Indian can not and will not survive as a democratic nation if we tolerate the extremism.

    There is no such thing as religious “conversion”. People adopt to and accept faith based upon what inspires to them and how best they can worship God.

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  • A. S. Mathew, U.S.A.

    Tue, Nov 08 2011

    DR. S. KAMATH: Some of my personal friends have business with China, and they were surprised to see the mega Church buildings in all the major cities of China. One Indian engineer
    working for an American company went to the interior part of China, and met some Indian students. They took him to the Church on Sunday for the worship of the foreign Christians. After the worship, the locals were in a  rush to find the place inside the building. When Mao took the power in 1948, the Christian Church went underground, and began to grow through the house Churches. Now the situation is entirely different and they have the freedom to worship.

    If the Christians are attacked in India, they may not retaliate, but through persecution, the number of believers will be exploding.  Educated and socially high status people like you must see the persecution of the minority Christians with an open and unbiased approach. Only in the Christian religion, one saviour " JESUS CHRIST" came down to the earth and gave His life to save the humanity from their sins which is totally free of cost to all human beings of all religions.

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  • Dr S kamath , Mumbai

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Dear A. S. Mathew, U.S.A in China there are very less number of Churches that too they operate in houses of the people .Not Big Churches like we have in India and this 130 Million hasbeen evaluated on the Basis of Questioning of the People has to do they believe in Christianity .It is a Custom in China to have 2 names for everybody one Chinese name Ching ,Yung etc and another name which they call English name which reads like James ,Peter etc But whether they are follwing exactly like Christianity like Baptism,etc hasnot been thoroughly researched

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  • Jude, Mangalore Dubai

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Dinesh Poojary, converting to christianity is not as simple as chanting a few slokhas. It takes months before one is accepted into the christian faith. Why don't you approach a proper church and find out?. If some fool says that he has converted you by sprinkling water then both you and the guy who says he has converted you are fools. At least in our Roman catholic/Orthodox or Anglican churches we do not have such fly by night converts. Therefore stop repeating your stupid lies. Mr Sandesh Shetty, your comments prove that truth is hard to digest. Do you mean to say that the entire Indian media is controlled by christians?.....hahahahah what a joke. One does not need to be in Dubai or Timbaktoo to understand this.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mangalore/Mapusa/ Mumbai

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Church Attacks are only a gimmick to divert public attention from their CHOR leaders rotting in various JAILS. However, people have now become smart and have read the game plan of these COMMUNAL PARTIES. I wonder what is stopping Karnataka Police from taking action against these ROGUES.

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  • Sherwon Dmello, Mangalore KSA

    Mon, Nov 07 2011


    A. S. Mathew, U.S.A.

    WELL SAID : APPRECIATED

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  • Pradeep, Blore

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Another drama to indulge in paid conversions.instead of these cheap ways to attract media attention they should work towards eliminating children molestation by the churches.

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  • Sandesh Shetty, Bangalore/Kudla

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Jude, Mangalore Dubai dont sit in dubai and give your comments. Last time in Bangalore also someone had thrown stone at christian institution. Before knowing the truth most of them like you came to the conclustion that it's the work of RSS/BD/Ramasene etc. After investigation came to know that it was your own people who created the problem. Even when the truth came out also our media channels did not publish anything about that because the accused people are your own people. So dont jump to the conclusion and give your own repeated comments. Have patience and wait till the truth comes out.

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  • Jeevan kumar, Mangalore

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Mr.Prashanth Pinto, Mumbai
    God is one and all religions are good provided people who follow the faith are good. You people are sefish,fanatic spoiling the religion. You will be always slave to west and west will not allow any other country to be super power. you have seen the mess they made in the middle east and the Gulf.
    Hindus being majority and united and strong, nobody can break the unity. Infact West is turning toward Hinduisim.

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  • Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    These people enjoyed religious conversion in a christian school in Mangalore and encouraged them.

    Now ಮಾಡಿದುಣ್ಣೋ ಮಹಾರಾಯ. Do some good works to mankind like Mother Theresa.

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  • Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Why these christian leaders are not talking about illegal conversion now?

    Dear leaders, cleanse your house first before pointing to others.

    Why are you not talking about a school which was doing conversion in Mlore just 3 months back? Is it right according to you people?

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  • Jude, Mangalore Dubai

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    I agree with Shetty completely. Everyone knows thge source of the problem. It is the the fundu organizations like the Ram Sene, BD who are supported by the BJP government and the RSS with the intention of polarizing society. Keep alive the conversion boogey and fool innocent and gullible low income hindus, by paying them money to vandalize christian religious places. They know that the christians are a mild lot and that they can get away time and again by doing these stupid acts. Morons don't understand that faith like like a rock. These acts make ones faith only stronger.

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  • A. S. Mathew, U.S.A.

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    PRASHANTH PINTO: Great comment.
    When Mao took control of China in
    1948, there were only 5 million
    Christians. Now the Christian
    population is over 130 million: it is projected to be 600 million by
    the year 2050. Through persecution, more people are coming to follow JESUS CHRIST everywhere in the world.

    I read in one book " JESUS IN
    BEIJING" written by the Time's
    reporter in Hong Kong that the
    Communist leaders are convinced
    about one hidden fact. They told
    him that, both the U.S. and Great
    Britain became world super powers because they were Christian countries. So, if China's goal is
    to becaome a world super power, it
    must be a Christian country.

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  • bilal,

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Komu Sauharda Vedike, is a mere Vedike where one can think good, speak good, and can take good decisions..... but the question remains....WHO WILL BELL THE CAT.? AND WE EVEN DO NOT KNOW WHERE IS THIS CAT ?!!!

    IN OUR TWIN DISTRICT MINORITIES ARE TOTALLY TARGETED WITH OPEN VANDALISM...
    MASJIDS AND CHYRCHES ARE UNSAFE.. FURTHER THE TEMPLES WERE ALSO LOOTED.....
    SO GOVERNMENT SHOULD THINK TO CREATE A NEW SAUHARDA FORCE TO TAKE ACTION ON THE AGEND OF THIS KOMU SAUHARDA VEDIKE...

    OTHERWISE BOLNEWALA BOLTA RAHEGA.... KARNEWALA KARTE RAHEGA,,, AUR RONEWALA ROTA HI RAHEGA.. IF NOT HAR GROUP MEY EK TERRORIST PAIDA HOGA.....KOMU SAUHARDA VEDIKE KE AGAINST APN SAALA DEKHLEGA VEDIKE PAIDA HOGA....

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  • Declan, Mumbai

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    God is not just a statue and his message is not just confined within the pages of the holy book. God's words are for real and he is a living God and he knows how to take care of his people irrespective of which faith they belong to. Those who do wrong will sooner or later face God's wrath. There is no escape. Only hope for wrong doers is to repent and correct your ways. Divine justice is above all forms of human justice.

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  • shetty, Mangalore

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    All pointless...everyone knows the source of the problem..

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  • Prashanth Pinto, Mumbai India

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Attack on the Christians is a big game plan by some cowardly fanatic outfits with a big political support in order to create fear among the Christians, thereby forcing them to leave the country and make India a theocratic country. But Christians will never give up and will eventually win. Chinese Govt tried to destroy Christianity but it became more and more popular there and now nearly 10-15% people follow that religion there, either secretly or publicly. Christianity is the most peaceful religion and they do not fear anyone. So those who are attacking Christians will realize their blunders one day and embrace
    this holy faith.

    We Christians will not harm anyone instead help them in many ways. Yet we are always harassed and hated by some groups and individuals because of jealousy. However, the silent majority of Hindus are knowing the facts but they are indifferent. They will realize this and change their attitude. We may suffer now temporarily but ultimately we will win. God bless us all.

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  • ISMAIL.K.PERINJE, PERINJE-YANBU/KSA

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Attacking on place of worship and properties of minorties doubled after BJP headed Govt(NDA) took Office in the Centre.From that onward Congress headed UPA did little to contain them.After LK Advani's Rathyathra to Ayodhya who had written bloodiest history in Indian history for which India paying till now.Unless the gap of understanding between minority and Majority not narrowed it is very difficult to move forward in a country like India, which is melting pot of various cultures.

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  • Raaja, Moodbidri/ KSA

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    I m sure these kinds of attacks are not going to stop, because our Government has sheltered culprits, so you people should take some action against them. ( SHARAFATON KI KOI AHMIYAT (importance)HE NAHI, KISI KA KUCH NA BIGADO TO YAHAN KOUN DARR TA HAI)

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  • Sudhir, Mangaluru

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    We condemn attack on any wprship places & same time tell your fellow persons not to indulge any conversion activities or distributing pamplets agianst someones god.

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  • Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Dear Michael Saldanha, Anandkumar Jogul, Walter J Maben, K L Ashok,

    What do you say about illegal conversion by few christian missionaries and institutions? Why are you people silent on the issue?

    Why did you people kept your mouth shut when school in Mangalore was involved in conversion activities just a 3 months back?

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  • GERALD, Modnakap - Bantval

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    This is not enough dear Leaders. The anti-elements are very much looking for "CHAPPALI SEVE". These elements will not understand your peaceful thoughts and good deeds. They will never appreciate whatever you do for the society because they are from a illiterate with a poor cultured family background. Most importantly they are cowards.

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  • pks, mlore

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Go back to the history...you can find who attacked first... when hindus where living peacful life.

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  • Mumbai Missionary, Mangalore

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    Meetings, forums, groups for attacks on minorities. We have all been seeing pictures and images on Daijiworld. What is the outcome??? Ministers and politicans met by bishops and dignatories, Bouquets offered to them, assurances given by them, no end to all this. Why? Simply because there is no unity between christians themselves. Anna could succeed but our christians will not succeed. Find out the root cause, get off to the streets and fight for your rights. You wil see the difference.

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  • nagesh nayak, bangalore

    Mon, Nov 07 2011

    CONVERTING HINDUS TO A CHRISTAINITY IS A ROOT CAUSE FOR ALL THE NUISASNCE IN INDIA.

    WHY THESE CHRISTAIN LEADERS NEVER SPEAK ABOUT CONVERSION ACTIVITIES.

    NORTH EAST STATES ARE FULL OF MISSIONARIES WHOSE JOB IS TO GRAB THE LAND & CONVERT THE PEOPLE.

    LET THEM STOP CONVERSION ACTIVITIES THRUOUT INDIA.

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