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Christian educational institutions to be closed on Friday
All Christian educational institutions in the country will be closed on Friday to protest violence against the community in Orissa, where several churches have been burnt and at least 11 people killed in revenge for the murder of a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader last week.
The Economic Times [IN] reports The church network - including
the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, the Evangelical Fellowship of India
and the National Council of Churches in India - has written a letter to all
Christian organisations in the country on the issue.
"Communal organisations have
taken the law into their hands in Orissa. What is at stake is not only the
freedom of conscience of a minority community but India's secular democracy,"
the letter said.
Journal Chretian reports ... more than 75 separate attacks on Gospel for Asia-related work in Orissa have resulted in the deaths of at least six local believers since radical mobs went on a rampage after the murder of a leading anti-Christian activist.
