Mandya: 60-year-old St Mathias Church in Malavalli of Mandya district, Karnataka was vandalized on the 4th February 2010.

According to the GCIC sources around 2:30 am, a group of anti-Christian miscreants broke open the church's main door and window before destroying all the statues.

The radicals desecrated the church cross, defiled the Blessed Sacrament .The savage attackers did not spare even the musical instruments and other valuables.

The parish priest in charge, Rev. M. Anthappa was informed by the members of the parish that the church vandalized and on arrival from Bangalore. He filed a complaint at the Malavalli Police Station.

The police promptly filed an FIR on the basis of the complaint and promised investigation.

According to GCIC sources a local doctor found some youngsters moving around the church in a suspicious way and the neighbours tried to contact the police at about 10.30pm without success.