BRUTAL ATTACKS ON THE WORSHIPPERS AND DESECRATION OF THE BIBLE ON THE EASTERDAY
L.K ADVANI'S RATH YATRA BRINGS FRESH ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS

A small Christian believers were peacefully celebrating Easter, the celebration of risen Christ in the Student Christian Movement house in the Bal Matta ground situated in the heart of Mangalore. Today at 4pm Hindu radicals numbering about 20-25 from sangh Parivar brutalized the worshippers of about 30 women and children
The pseudo nationalists have tried to outrage the modesty of women and used filthy language and threatened the women and children attending the Sunday school/service The radicals have destroyed plastic furniture and organ. The Sangh parivar activists have destroyed bibles, scripture portions and hymn books and stamped over them Karnataka was one of the most peaceful state in India and now the coalition government with Hindu radical political party is triggering communal hatred in a systematic way Global council of Indian Christians(GCIC) urge Mr Kumara Swamy to extend protection for Christians in Karnataka ,the southern oasis of peace in India
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SAJAN K GEORGE
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GLOBAL COUNCIL OF INDIAN CHRISTIANS(gcic)

Christians beaten up at Prayer Meeting

Times News Network

Mumbai, April 14, 2006

About 500 Christians who had gathered for a prayer meeting in Khopte Villlage, Uran were attacked by 50 members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Tuesday, alleged Abraham Mathai, general Secretary of the All India Christian Council. The Christians were from the Living Light Fellowship Church in Uran. They were allegedly beaten up with lathis and choppers.

Mathai added that five leaders at the prayer meeting were then forcibly dragged to the nearby Shankar mandir and forced to worship there. When they resissted, they were allegedly mercillessly beaten.

"They were then escorted by the goons to the Navi Mumbai toll naka and dumped there", said Mathai. The leaders are currently recuperating in hospital. "We have just been informed of the incident,"said Navi Mumbai police commissioner Vijay Kamle, who has dispatched a team to look into the incident.