பாஸ்டரே ஆட்களை ஏற்பாடு செய்து சிலுவைகளை உடைத்திருக்கிறார்.

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Church attacked in Bidar district, Karnataka
By: Rahul Benjamin
Friday, 20 November 2009, 17:13 (IST)Font Scale:A A A
Unrestrained vandalism of churches continues in the state of Karnataka. On Tuesday, Nov. 17, unidentified miscreants attacked a church in Humnabad taluk in Bidar district.

The miscreants entered into the church by breaking the main door and damaged window panes and furniture, police said.

“It looks like a deliberate act of desecration as nothing has been stolen,” Vasanthkumar, the pastor of the church, told media.

He said the miscreants had damaged the statue of Jesus Christ and the cross atop the church.

Police on Wednesday visited the spot and have registered a complaint. The superintendent of police assured Christians that they would arrest the culprits without delay.

The newly built church, according to a source, is still to be inaugurated.

The incident comes a month after St Anthony's Church at Kavailbyrasandra in Bangalore was attacked. Prior to this, on Sept. 8, miscreants broke open into St. Francis De Sales Church near Hebbagodi and damaged the windows and statues.

In a related incident, anti-social elements on Nov. 6 disrupted a house church service in Shimoga, accusing a physically challenged Pastor Kannan Ramesh of forcible conversion.

According to the Evangelical Fellowship of India, Hindutva hardliners barged into the Faith Christ house church where three families gathered for their weekly service and verbally abused the pastor on alleged conversion.

The extremists dragged Pastor Ramesh and two church members identified only as Kumar and Thrimurthi to Old Town police station and warned them against using the house as a church.

The Global Council of Indian Christians has recorded 56 cases of violence against Christians in Karnataka in 2009.

இந்துத்வா ஆட்கள் இந்த சர்ச் ஆசாமிகளை இழுத்து போட்டு அடித்து சர்ச் நடத்த வேணாம் என்று எச்சரித்தார்களாம்!


இப்போது லேட்டஸ்ட் செய்தி.

சர்ச் பாஸ்டரே ஆட்களை ஏற்பாடு செய்து சிலுவைகளை உடைத்திருக்கிறார்.

Humnabad church attack: police arrest pastor
Special Correspondent
Police say the accused hired three goons to vandalise the church

After the attack: A file photo of the Humnabad church in Bidar district which was attacked by miscreants on November 17.

BIDAR: The Bidar district police Thursday claimed to have solved the case of an attack on a church in Humnabad town in Bidar district on November 17 with the arrest of a former pastor of the church and three hired goons who allegedly attacked the church.

Superintendent of Police Satish Kumar in a press statement said here that the main accused, Vasant, who was the pastor of the Humnabad church till June this year before his transfer to a church at Basantpur in Chincholi taluk in Gulbarga district had conspired to damage the church with the hope that the church authorities would cancel his transfer and keep him in Humnabad.

Mr. Kumar said the investigation revealed that the accused had taken the help of B. Sunil, S. Mallikarjun Swamy and S. Manjunath, all belonging to Humnabad town, to damage the church with a promise of paying them Rs. 10,000. According to Mr. Kumar, the main accused had already paid Rs. 1,000 as advance to the trio for carrying out the attack.

The attack, which had embarrassed the district administration and the police, had caused quite a stir among the Christians who wanted the Government to take immediate action against those responsible for the attack. Furniture, electrical fittings in the main prayer hall and the cross on the dome of the church were damaged. The Opposition parties such as the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) had also joined the Christians in demanding action against those responsible for the attack.

Mr. Kumar said that a special team of police officers, headed by Additional Superintendent of Police Thyagarajan and Circle Inspectors M.H. Satish, working in Humnabad police station and James Menenzis working in Raichur, was formed to solve the case. The team questioned several persons and finally the pastor. The accused revealed the names of the three people he had hired to attack the church.

source:http://www.ezhila.blogspot.com/

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