Orissa's Christians Still 'Too Afraid' to Go Home

(21 Jun 09 - RV) “Complete normality is yet to be restored”. Those are the words of vice-chairman of the Indian National Commission for Minorities after his visit this week to the refugee camps in Khandhamal, home to thousands of Christians too afraid to return to their villages after last years attacks by Hindu extremists in Orissa. Raphael Cheenath, archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, says that security is still not guaranteed the Christians in his diocese: