Christian forum concerned over rampant corruption in India

November 02, 2012 - India’s National United Christian Forum (NUCF) has expressed its concern over the unraveling of scams in the country and the involvement of important political leaders in it. “We Indians have just celebrated the great festival of Dussehra, signifying the victory of good over evil. We pray at the same time to root out evil from our own lives,” said Catholic Archbishop Vincent Concessao of Delhi, NUCF president. He said that after the revelations of so many scams in the country recently, the situation and the future of the country appears quite bleak. The country has been rocked by a series of scams this year, including the Granite scam, Maharashtra irrigation scam, coalgate scam, incurring a loss of a huge amount of money to the exchequer. The archbishop said that India is a country that has given birth to so many religions and philosophies which quite clearly spell out a path of honesty and truthfulness. “We wonder where those values of religions have disappeared when it comes to the practice of such basic ethical values enshrined in the rich culture and religions of India,” he added. Archbishop Concessao appealed to all the political parties and people in India to fight the scourge of bribery. He called upon all the churches and Christians to hold special prayers to root out corruption from public life. “Though corruption is often born out of deep seated greed in us to amass wealth quickly without hard work, it also shows a total lack of concern for our own brothers and sisters in the society,” he said. NUCF constitutes Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, National Council of Churches in India and the Evangelical Fellowship of India.