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Karnataka
bishops to protest church attacks
Thursday February 17, 2011 08:21:39 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: Bangalore
Archbishop Bernard Moras will lead 17 bishops in a sit-in protest
Friday and the Christian community will hold a rally and candle
light vigil here Monday to protest attacks on churches in the
state.
The sit-in and the candle light vigil follow a judicial commission
report absolving Hindu groups of the series of attacks on churches
at several places in Karnataka in September 2008.
The Christian community has rejected the report of the Justice B.K.
Somashekara Commission and is demanding a Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) probe into the attacks.
Giving details of the protest, Moras told reporters here that the
Christian community wanted the state government "to reject the
one-sided, totally unjust and biased report".
The protest was also to "demand that the entire series of attacks
must be entrusted to the CBI for a comprehensive probe," he said.
The sit-in will be a symbolic protest lasting half-an-hour from 11
a.m. at St. Mark's Cathedral campus off the Mahatma Gandhi Road in
the heart of the city.
Monday evening, Christians in Bangalore city and neighbouring
districts will hold the rally and prayer meeting with a candle
light vigil at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral grounds, about two km
away from the Mahatma Gandhi Road, Moras said.
The Somashekara Commission, in its report submitted to the
government Jan 28, absolved the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, the
state government and Hindu groups of the attacks.
It has said the attacks, though pre-planned in some cases, were
carried out by "misguided elements".
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