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Kerala
Bishops' Council this week denounced the attacks on its
educational institutions that took place during a
Marxist protest rally on June 8.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) while observing
the 'black day' - in protest against Governor R S
Gavai's decision to permit CBI to prosecute party's
state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan - attacked a church and
few Christian educational institutions in Alappuzha
diocese.
Strongly reacting to the unseemly act, the deputy
Secretary General of Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council (KCBC),
Fr. Stephen Alathara, said, "resorting to violence by
any political party while protesting is always anti
democratic.”
He said the attacks were the reaction of the Communists
who received a severe drubbing in the assembly election
last month.
Fr Althara said the church only protested the Communists
targeting the Christian faith and moral values through
laws and educational reforms.
Earlier, the Catholic Church was up in arms against the
introduction of communist ideas and anti–religious texts
in school text books which they pointed was set to
"divert young minds”.
The Communist government also proposed to penalize
couples having a third child, in a bid to control the
population.
The KCBC meanwhile has clarified that it was not against
any political party and it is willing to enter into
talks with the Communists.
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