Orissa is a Special Focus of Christians of India and all over the world

Since 24th of August 2008: Around 126 Christians have been killed and 800 plus injured. Tens of thousands of Christians have fled to the jungles to save their lives and are subsisting on roots and herbs.

Hundreds of village churches have been burnt and razed to ground. Christian nuns have been gang-raped and burnt to death. Priests have been killed and attacked with iron rods, clubs, swords, and country made guns. Alleged VHP radicals are supposedly responsible for this utterly unbelievable carnage. 

Even children are not spared from these barbaric acts. Christians are assaulted, humiliated, paraded half-naked, beaten up, their limbs mutilated, tortured, burnt alive, raped, and murdered.

There are more than thousand incidents in Orissa where Christians have been mercilessly victimized. These stupendously anti-humanity acts are not only appalling, but are also macabre, horrid, revolting, disgusting, vile and such acts of violence are big blots of shame on the secular and democratic fabric of the Indian Constitution.

It is a shame that on the land of the Mahatma, where non-violence is the sacred mantra, violence is so unashamedly, unabashedly, and unabatedly propagated, instigated, and supported by few anti-social individuals or groups, in the name of religion. Christians are a peace-loving community and abhor violence of any kind.

 All the Christians of India and the world are mere mute spectators at the ghastly events happening in Orissa against their peace-loving brethren.

FIACONA has also started a petition drive.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-killing-christians-and-churches-in-orissa-india.html