By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: Some 25 priests from various parts of India plan to express solidarity with the survivors of the 2008 anti-Christian persecution in the Kandhamal district of Odisha, eastern India. They are the national executive members of the Catholic Priests’ Conference of India (CPCI), an association ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: The Odia translation of the book “Who Killed Laxmanananda?” was released on Sept 19 by the illiterate wives of seven people languishing in jail for allegedly killing the Hindu religious leader. Goldman prize laureate Prafulla Samantara, human rights activists Dhirendra Panda and Narendra Mohanty ofContinue Reading
By Oliva Kerketta Phulbani: The perpetrators of Kandhamal violence ten years need to be held accountable, said N. Paul Divakar, a human rights activist. Addressing a public gathering organized to mark a decade of anti-Christian persecution in Phulbani, district headquarters of Kandhamal, on August 28, he spoke on Kandhamal violenceContinue Reading
We are turning into a nation of fractured sensibilities with little sense of justiceContinue Reading
By Anirban Bhattacharya and Nandini Dey It has been ten years since the sheltered calmness of the plateaus of Kandhamal witnessed one of the bloodiest episodes of communal violence unleashed on Christian minorities in India. Dalits and tribals found themselves under siege from mobs led by Hindutva fanatics. Dismembered limbs,Continue Reading
During a recent visit to the headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Father Ajay Kumar Singh of the Odisha Forum for Social Action advocated for the suppressed Christians of his eastern Indian state. “After 10 years there is hardly any justice for these communities,” said Father Singh.Continue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal: A group of Catholic women from Kerala who spent five days in Kandhamal say the faith of Odisha’s persecuted Christians has deepened their belief in Christ. “The Christians of Kandhamal have manifested a deep-rooted faith in Christ by facing the worst religious persecution in modern India,”Continue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal: The Women Council of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India on April 21 distributed sewing machines to women of Kandhamal, Odisha, as part of it plan to help the victims of the worst anti-Christian violence in modern era. Ten women received kits containing scissors, needles, book,Continue Reading
By John Dayal Bhubaneswar: The sound of the Kui dialect speaks of a decade’s pain in Kandhamal district, Odisha, Eastern India. The sound of the Kui dialect resonates in the tin-roofed Church as Father Manoj Nayak, social activists interprets Harsh Mander and the members of the Karwan-e-Mohabbat, a civil societyContinue Reading