Bangalore Church Team Meets Union Home Minister, Seeks Protection for Christians

Bangalore Church Team Meets Union Home Minister, Seeks Protection for Christians
CBCI
A Church delegation from the Archdiocese of Bangalore met Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil October 14 here and submitted a memorandum seeking protection for the persecuted Christians in Karnataka. The team led by Father Amruthraj also expressed fears among the community in the wake of the unabated attacks on churches in the southern Indian state. The delegation apprised the minister of the “growing sense of insecurity and increasing disappointment among the Christians over the continuing attacks and vandalisation of churches in Karnataka. The memorandum expressed dissatisfaction at the initiatives of the state government to contain the anti-Christian violence. “There are no second thoughts on doubting that the Yeddyurappa-led BJP government is indifferent and non-committal in its promise to stop the violence,” said the PRO of the Bangalore Archdiocese, Father Adolf Washington. Addressing reporters after meeting Patil, Father Washington said that the Union Minister for Home was not happy with what was happening in Karnataka “and accepted our memorandum.”