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DEATH FOR THOSE MAKING SPURIOUS LIQUOR: GUJARAT GOVT
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government has on
Wednesday declared that there would be a new law which
will make death penalty mandatory for people who
manufacture spurious liquor. The government has said
that the punishment for the crime would now range from a
minimum of seven years to execution.
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CHRISTIAN LEADERS URGED TO STUDY MAHAPATRA REPORT ON
KANDHMAL
New Delhi: The Church leaders in India
have out rightly rejected Justice S.C. Mahapatra’s
interium report on violence in Kandhmal that took place
in 2007 and 2008. The report has sited “conversion and
anti conversion ‘and obtaining “fake “caste certificates
by the ‘Pana Chriwtians’ as the main source of tension.
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ANTI CHRISTIAN HOARDINGS IN CHHATTISGARH
Hindu extremists allegedly from the Vishwa Hindu
Parishad (World Hindu Council) and Bajrang Dal (Youth
Wing of the VHP) put up three anti- Christian hoardings
in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, sternly warning the Christians
not to preach in the area. The signboards put up in
three different places said, "Preaching about Jesus
Christ is strictly prohibited in the area, and a penalty
of rupees 1130 will be imposed on those found guilty."
The hoardings also have pictures of Hindu deities along
with names of the extremists group.
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FIRST CONVICTION IN KHANDHAMAL
July 2, 2009: The fast-track court in
Kandhamal District sentenced a 58-year, a tribal leader
named Chakradhar Mallick, resident of Dampidhia village,
Daringbadi block, Kandhamal who had set the house of
Loknath Digal a man belong the same village on fire and
threatened to kill him.
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BIGOTRY ALIVE FOR CHRISTIAN DALITS
Centuries ago, as their forefathers faced social and
economic deprivation, many low-caste Hindus embraced
Christianity. But in one corner of southern India, their
hopes for equality remain unfulfilled hundreds of years
on. Called "pariahs", hundreds of Dalit Christians
continue to face discrimination - not from Hindus but
fellow Christians.
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CENTRAL RESERVE POLICE FORCE HAVE BEEN WITH DRAWN
FROM KANDHAMAL
In a major development, the last batch of Central forces
deployed in the trouble-torn Kandhamal district was
withdrawn on 1 June 2009, According to Kandhamal
district collector Krishan Kumar. The last batch of four
companies of CRPF (400 personnel) deployed in Raikia and
G. Udayagiri finally moved out of the district on
Wednesday.
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CHRISTIANS PROTEST AGAINST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS IN
BHOPAL
Bhopal, 6 July 2009: Christians held a
symbolic protest prayer meeting, (Sad-Budhi Prarthana
Sabha), in front of St. Joseph Girls Senior Secondary
School at Idgah Hills, Bhopal. The School is being run
by the religious organization called "St. Joseph Sisters
of Chamery". The meeting was organized by Christian
Adhikar Manch, Bhopal. The school authorities were not
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GUJARAT GOVERNMENT CONTINUES WITH COMMUNAL AGENDA
In a surreptitious and secret move, the Government of
Gujarat through its Legal Department has issued a
notification (No. GK/8/2009/COI/102009/33/A) appointing
a Commission of Inquiry to inquire and report into the
"polarization of population on the basis of religion
taking place in the State of Gujarat" and "the migration
of the people following different religions taking place
every 10 years after 15th August 1947".
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KANDHAMAL RIOT ACCUSED FREED, TO TAKE OATH AS MLA
July 05: BJP leader and a prime accused in
last year's communal riot in Kandhamal, Manoj Pradhan,
was released from jail here on Sunday, a day after being
granted interim bail to be able to take oath as an MLA.
Pradhan, who was lodged in jail since his arrest in
October 2008 on charge of murder, riot and arson, was
set free after furnishing required documents, a day
after a fast track court here granted him conditional
bail for 15 days in two cases. He had earlier got bail
in 12 other cases.
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SCHOOL PROTEST: CHRISTIAN ADHIKAR MANCH APOLOGIZES
Bhopal: The members of Christian Adikar
Manch, (CAM), expressed deep regret and apologized for
the symbolic protest prayer organized in front of the
catholic School and for highlighting the stray incidents
that took at times in Catholic Schools. The apology was
tendered on 11 July 2009 in a joint meeting of
Representatives of St. Joseph Senior Secondary School,
Idgah Hills, Bhopal, Members of Christian Adikar Manch
(Christian Right Protection Group), and Office bearers
of Archdiocese was held at Archbishop's House in Bhopal,
under Chairmanship of the Archbishop Dr. Leo Cornelio.
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RELIGIOUS ROW GOES TO THE PRESIDENT
KOLKATA: India's ruling party has
intervened in a bid to block a move by one of the
country's states to make it more difficult to change
religions. The Congress Party has advised the country's
president, Pratibha Patil, not to sign on Madhya
Pradesh's amendment to a freedom of religion act that
would make anyone in the state wanting to convert to
seek permission from the local administrative authority
and police.
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PETITION URGES COURT TO DISQUALIFY CANDIDATES
SUPPORTED BY RELIGIOUS GROUPS
The court should not permit the participation of
religious organisations during election campaigns and it
should disqualify those candidates being backed up by
such groups. This is exactly what a petition has
demanded in the southern state of Kerala. Last week,
July 7, the Kerala High Court received a petition urging
it to act on religious groups associating with political
parties and candidates standing for elections.
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AUSSIE, INDIAN CHRISTIAN LEADERS CONDEMN ATTACKS ON
INDIAN STUDENTS
Ahmedabad (Gujarat): Amid
 the recent spate
of racial attacks on Indian students in Australia, a
dominant Protestant denomination in India along with its
counterpart in Australia, joined hands to condemn and
initiate measures to address the growing outrage.
Australian department of education's group manager Colin
Walters, right, interacts with parents during a parent
student interaction organized by Australian High
Commission in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, July 7, 2009.
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KERALA CHURCH INITIATES MEDICAL SCHEMES TO RESTORE
THE FAITHFUL
In a bid to combat its diminishing number of faithful in
southern state of Kerala, the Catholic Church there has
initiated measures, including some medical schemes that
can restore its lost numbers - mainly among the youths.
Apparently worried by its dwindling population, the
Catholic Church proposed some medical schemes, one being
the reversal of tubectomy among women in church-run
hospitals. Additionally, it will also provide remedial
support for infertile couples and educational incentives
for fourth child in the family.
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MAHATMA'S GRANDDAUGHTER BLAMES GOVT FOR HOOCH TRAGEDY
SURAT: That one of the biggest hooch
tragedies has taken place in the land of Gandhi has
greatly distressed his great-granddaughter Nilam Parikh.
According to her, the state government has made no
sincere effort to implement the liquor ban.
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MIZO CHURCH DEFIES GAY RULING, WANTS 1909 ORDER TO
REMAIN
The Christian-dominated state of Mizoram might disregard
the Delhi High Court's gay ruling and rather stick with
an 100-year-old British law that rigidly criminalises
homosexuality. The British law formulated in 1909 by
superintendent of then Lushai Hills HWG Cole strictly
opposes homosexuality and also punishes chiefs who fail
to "report all cases of unnatural offences".
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ARCHBISHOP CAUTIONS MINORITIES CHAIRMAN: JUSTICE
DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED
"Justice delayed is justice denied," said Archbishop of
Bangalore Bernard Moras, at a meeting with the Karnataka
State Minorities Commission Chairman Khusro Quraishi.
Expressing disappointment over the investigation into
the church attacks in Karnataka, Archbishop Moras at a
private meeting with Quraishi said the response of the
Somshekhara Commission was slow and out of Church's
expectations.
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PASTOR, WIFE ASSAULTED IN KARNATAKA
A pastor and his wife were attacked by Hindu radicals on
Friday at one of the villages in Chitradurga district
within South Indian state of Karnataka, Global Council
of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported. On 10 July 2009 at
9:30 a.m. a group lead by H R Kallesh assaulted Sharada,
a pastor’s wife, in Srirampura village, Hosadurga Taluk,
Chitradurga district.
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CHRISTIANS SEEK URGENT PROTECTION OF WITNESSES OF
ORISSA VIOLENCE, REHABILITATION OF VICTIMS OF ORISSA
VIOLENCE, SC RIGHTS FOR DALIT CHRISTIANS
NEW DELHI -- 29 June 2009: The Christian
community today asked the Union government to intervene
decisively in Orissa and ensure the protection of
witnesses whose lives are being threatened by criminals,
including politicians and legislators of the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) charged with multiple murders in the
anti-Christian violence of August-October 2008.
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ANDHRA CM WANTS CENTRE TO ADDRESS DALIT ISSUES
Hyderabad: As promised, Chief Minister of
Andhra Pradesh YS Rajasekhara Reddy has demanded that
the Centre provide SC status to Dalit Christians who
have been deprived of their rights. Earlier this month,
the CM had assured a Christian delegation that he would
take up the issue of Dalit quota with the Central
Government and the Union Ministers for Law and Justice.
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