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Clean copy The following is the latest news from Catholic World News, the independent news syndicate operating exclusively through the internet and various other sources. Church workers in India undeterred by killings By Anto Akkara Along with losing two nuns and two priests in cold blooded murders in last five years, the flourishing Church in the remote northeastern states of India has to live with a steady stream of threats and extortion by militant ethnic groups in the region. However, determined church workers say they are "undeterred and least worried" about these handicaps. The latest Church casualty in the northeast was 35-year-old Salesian Father Jose Nedumattathil, principal of Don Bosco High School at Maram, in the Manipur state. The priest was shot dead in his office on the night of November 22 by an unidentified gunman. Prior to Father Jose, another Salesian priest, Father Matthew Maniachira, principal of Don Bosco School in Kanchipur, had been gunned down in 1992 near Imphal, south of Maram. In May 1995, Sisters of Charity Augustina Kochumattam was hacked to death at night in her convent, and Medical Mission sister Lilly was shot dead in November 1996– both murders occurring in Assam state, which accounts for most of the 31 million Indian population in the seven tiny states nestled between Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Nepal, and Myanmar. "These things do happen. We stand firm because we are here for a cause. We work for the people and God. Nothing can dissuade us from our work," Bishop Joseph Mittathany of Imphal told CWN.
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Whenever anything untoward happens, the congregations remain in close touch to console the families of the victims (all the victims of the assaults in the north-east have been natives of the southern Kerala state, which provides 70 percent of India’s 110,000 priests and nuns.) That custom was followed after the demise of 33-year old Salesian Father Philip in 1983. The result was that his father Chakkochan, a grandfather already, vowed to become a priest and to work where his son died. Last year Chakkochan’s perseverance paid off when he was ordained a Salesian priest at the age of 76– . The local Salesian provincial Father Palathingal could not be contacted after the funeral. The provincial had left for Kerala, over 1,800 miles south, to console the parents of Fr. Jose who are now left with a son only. "This kind of solidarity with the families (of the victims) will only inspire the relatives to follow the foot steps of their dear ones," said Father Plathottam who also hails from Kerala.
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Good for them…I love the way Christian missionaries work: "Convert to our faith, and only THEN we’ll give you the food and shelter you desperately need" Don’t worry, they’ll wisen up and embrace their ancestral heritage/beliefs once they’ve taken the necessary resources. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Almost all the seven northeastern states– small as they are in size compared to other states– showed a high growth rate among Christians, which was not the case for other religious groups. In Nagaland the 621,590 Christians who accounted for 80 percent of the state population in 1981 increased to 87 percent by 1991 with the figure reading 1,057,940. The growth rate was a phenomenal 225 percent in Arunachal Pradesh, with the strength of the Christian community going up from 27,306 to 89,013. Tripura stood second in the northeast in the growth rate among Christians with 86 percent, although the Christians were still a negligible minority of 46,472 in the state population of 2.7 million.
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12 men arrested for rape of nuns Twelve persons, including one of the prime accused, have been arrested so far in connection with the gang-rape of three nuns in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh, police said today. Inspector General of Police (Indore zone) Pannalal said one of the prime accused was arrested yesterday. Most of those arrested were involved in the rape, he said. While police have seized many of the articles that had been stolen from the Naupara convent, a sewing machine, cash, and some clothes are yet to be recovered. A search is on for the rest of the accused.
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A STUDY ON GIRL CHILDREN IN PROSTITUTION IN KAMATHIPURA, MUMBAI THE CONTINUED SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILD ren for commercial gain can no longer be hidden. The issue has now been brought out into the light of day where people can stare directly at it and see the potential for evil and horror and destruction which is always there in the heart of society. (Clearance Shubert, Senior Advisor of UNICEF for Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances, at an ECPAT conference). In his presentation, Mr. O’ Grady pointed out the problems of finding reliable data on the subject of child prostitution. Governments sometimes have a vested interest in making the figure seem less than it really is, while at the other end there are sensation-seeking journalists and agencies who want to draw attention to the problem by asserting that the number of children involved is much higher than the facts suggest. Allowing for a fairly large margin of error, he said we could still claim some validity for the belief that there were at least 1,000,000 children in prostitution in Asia. Of the 1,000,000 Asian children in prostitution, the largest number is probably found in India or China. The most comprehensive survey by the Government of India suggests that at least 25,000 children are in prostitution in the six main cities alone (Delhi, Calcutta, Mumbai, Madras, Bangalore and Hyderabad). India Today magazine in 1990 quoted a figure of 500,000 minors in prostitution. At the consultation, the finding of two surveys were presented that threw light on the extent and intensity of the problem in India. Synopsis of the Micro-Study on Girl Children in Prostitution in Kamathipura, Mumbai (Study by PRERNA, Mumbai), follows :
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Are you will to save few souls in India? 50 US cents a day can feed a poor family india, and help us save them for the lord.
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – In India crimes against women arise from the filthy Vedic verses which spew venom and hatred against women. Thus, for instance, amidst a whole host of Vedic verses which compare women to various animals such as hyenas and wolves, the following `sweet Vedic verse’ prescribes that widow women are to be burned alive in the barbaric act of `Sati’ – Rig Veda X.18.7 " Let these women, whose husbands are worthy and are living, enter the house with ghee (applied) as corrylium ( to their eyes). Let these wives first step into the pyre, tearless without any affliction and well adorned." Sometimes, cunning Brahmins bent on pursuing negationist history, such as those from the Brahmo Samaj and the Arya Samaj, try to distort this verse into meaning that the women whould step `in front’ of the fire instead of going into it. Of course, these are just psycopathic Pandits; Sati is prescribed in numerous other Indo-Aryan texts, such as the sacred Brahmanas, which are also considered a part of the Vedas –
Dont you use some analysis of the verses here? The verse says " whose husbands are worthy and living" etc!!! Why would they burn themselves? Enter the house? Cant you see the problem??? It is agre= meaning in frotn of!!! Not agne= into fire!! No Hindu woman will dot that when the husband is alive ! Why? Unless she wants to commit suicide! Pl think! The verse speaks for itself!! Dont use the propaganda tech! This verse has been quoted by stupid crooked missionairies for a long timE They twist so many Hindu scriptures and this is an example!!
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Are you will to save few souls in India? 50 US cents a day can feed a poor family india, and help us save them for the lord.
Will also help to convert Hindus into the satanic cult of christianity! Jesus was aliar and christians are a fraud and worship a God who was a murderer!! He killed Jesus!!! Nonsense of saving the world !! This is satan’s work! Jesus was actually the son of Joseph out of wedlock!! Face it bud!
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Shocking Sati in Bundelkhand Rig Veda X.95.10 " The nature of women is like that of the hyena." The month of November 1999 was a harrowing one for women all aross South Asia. The rise
Jesus christ was born to Joseph and Mary or to a Roman soldier out of wedlock!! Face it! If you tell lies we will tell the truth!
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Sita Agarwal, in her ground-breaking book, `Genocide of Women in Hinduism’ has
Jesus christ was born to Joseph and Mary or to a Roman soldier out of wedlock!! Face it! If you tell lies we will tell the truth!
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Brahma Purana.80.75 " It is the highest duty of the woman to immolate herself after her husband " Subsequently, the Brahmins enforced the barbaric Vedic Aryan sati rite upon the helpless non-Brahmin women, exterminating them and confiscating their properties. The French traveller Jan-Baptiste Tavernier was justifiably outraged at these cruel Brahmins –
Then why did not Lord Rama’s mothers do it or Kunthi and others?!!!!! Jesus christ was born to Joseph and Mary or to a Roman soldier out of wedlock!! Face it! If you tell lies we will tell the truth!
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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French Traveller to India 1641-1667 : " It is for the interest of the Brahmans that these unhappy women maintain the resolution they have taken to burn themselves, for all the bracelets which they wear, both in arms and legs, with their earrings and rings, belong of right to the Brahmans, who search for them in the ashes after the women are burnt." Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, `Travels in India’, transl, Valentine Ball, Atlantic Publishers New Delhi 1989 reprint, Tavernier, Vol.II, p.164-165
Jesus christ was born to Joseph and Mary or to a Roman soldier out of wedlock!! Face it! If you tell lies we will tell the truth!
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Shocking Sati in Bundelkhand Rig Veda X.95.10 " The nature of women is like that of the hyena." The month of November 1999 was a harrowing one for women all aross South Asia. The rise Jesus christ was born to Joseph and Mary or to a Roman soldier out of wedlock!! Face it! If you tell lies we will tell the truth!
Let me guess, you don’t like Jesus just because other people do? Maybe if everyone in the world hated him then you would rally around him and call us fools for not believing he was (and is) the son of God? The women in India need help. Whether it’s from people who do it in the name of their God or atheists who just want to help – it needs to happen. – Danger
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Almost all the seven northeastern states– small as they are in size compared to other states– showed a high growth rate among Christians, which was not the case for other religious groups. In Nagaland the 621,590 Christians who accounted for 80 percent of the state population in 1981 increased to 87 percent by 1991 with the figure reading 1,057,940. The growth rate was a phenomenal 225 percent in Arunachal Pradesh, with the strength of the Christian community going up from 27,306 to 89,013. Tripura stood second in the northeast in the growth rate among Christians with 86 percent, although the Christians were still a negligible minority of 46,472 in the state population of 2.7 million.
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The following is the latest news from Catholic World News, the independent news syndicate operating exclusively through the internet and various other sources. Church workers in India undeterred by killings By Anto Akkara Along with losing two nuns and two priests in cold blooded murders in last five years, the flourishing Church in the remote northeastern states of India has to live with a steady stream of threats and extortion by militant ethnic groups in the region. However, determined church workers say they are "undeterred and least worried" about these handicaps. The latest Church casualty in the northeast was 35-year-old Salesian Father Jose Nedumattathil, principal of Don Bosco High School at Maram, in the Manipur state. The priest was shot dead in his office on the night of November 22 by an unidentified gunman. Prior to Father Jose, another Salesian priest, Father Matthew Maniachira, principal of Don Bosco School in Kanchipur, had been gunned down in 1992 near Imphal, south of Maram. In May 1995, Sisters of Charity Augustina Kochumattam was hacked to death at night in her convent, and Medical Mission sister Lilly was shot dead in November 1996– both murders occurring in Assam state, which accounts for most of the 31 million Indian population in the seven tiny states nestled between Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Nepal, and Myanmar. "These things do happen. We stand firm because we are here for a cause. We work for the people and God. Nothing can dissuade us from our work," Bishop Joseph Mittathany of Imphal told CWN.
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In India crimes against women arise from the filthy Vedic verses which spew venom and hatred against women. Thus, for instance, amidst a whole host of Vedic verses which compare women to various animals such as hyenas and wolves, the following `sweet Vedic verse’ prescribes that widow women are to be burned alive in the barbaric act of `Sati’ – Rig Veda X.18.7 " Let these women, whose husbands are worthy and are living, enter the house with ghee (applied) as corrylium ( to their eyes). Let these wives first step into the pyre, tearless without any affliction and well adorned." Sometimes, cunning Brahmins bent on pursuing negationist history, such as those from the Brahmo Samaj and the Arya Samaj, try to distort this verse into meaning that the women whould step `in front’ of the fire instead of going into it. Of course, these are just psycopathic Pandits; Sati is prescribed in numerous other Indo-Aryan texts, such as the sacred Brahmanas, which are also considered a part of the Vedas –
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Pioneer, May 11 3 churches attacked in Indore Agencies/Indore Miscreants ransacked a church damaging the holy cross and threw stones at two other churches in the city on Thursday night, police said. The Additional Superintendent of Police Bhagwant Singh Chauhan said security had been beefed up in the vicinity of the three churches and a manhunt had been launched to arrest the culprits following complaints by the church priests. Father Ramesh Chandekar of St Paul’s Church said that miscreants damaged the holy cross, the prayer place and broke holy utensils and the mike system. He said the miscreants also threw stones at a church in Vandana Nagar and the Messiah Vidya Bhavan, another church on the Jail Road. Senior police officials rushed to the churches on getting information of the attacks and posted policemen for security. Additional SP, Jaideep Prasad, said police has made some preventive arrests and is in contact with the religious heads of the institutions.
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Brahma Purana.80.75 " It is the highest duty of the woman to immolate herself after her husband " Subsequently, the Brahmins enforced the barbaric Vedic Aryan sati rite upon the helpless non-Brahmin women, exterminating them and confiscating their properties. The French traveller Jan-Baptiste Tavernier was justifiably outraged at these cruel Brahmins –
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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French Traveller to India 1641-1667 : " It is for the interest of the Brahmans that these unhappy women maintain the resolution they have taken to burn themselves, for all the bracelets which they wear, both in arms and legs, with their earrings and rings, belong of right to the Brahmans, who search for them in the ashes after the women are burnt." Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, `Travels in India’, transl, Valentine Ball, Atlantic Publishers New Delhi 1989 reprint, Tavernier, Vol.II, p.164-165
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Sita Agarwal, in her ground-breaking book, `Genocide of Women in Hinduism’ has exposed Sati as the Brahmin mess murder of non-Brahmin women – `Genocide of Women in Hinduism’ Sita Agarwal, Sudrastan Books, Jabalpur 1999 " There is only one reason for the propagation of these lies by the Brahmins; that is to cover up their horrible genocide of non-Brahmin women by means of Sati. Now the real reason for Sati has been exposed: it is nothing but Hinduism, and springs from the barbaric Vedas. " Indeed, it is not a little coincidence that the woman forced to perform sati in the present case in Bundelkhand in November, 1999, was actually a Dalit woman ! This was revealed by the Sword of Truth – Sword of Truth, Issue# 1999.47 November 20th, 1999 On November 11, 1999 Charan Shah, a 55 year old Dalit woman had to face the tragic death of her husband Man Shah. Man Shah was a chronic TB patient for over 30 years. Thus, the recent Sati in Bundelkhand is entirely the result of 50 years of Brahmanisation of India pursued under the guise of Pseudo-Secularism and Hindutva. With the revival of Vedic barbarianism, more and more Satis shall occur in future. Only a grand alliance of anti-Hindutva forces, namely Dalitstanism, Feminism, Mughalstanism and Indo-Christian Nationalism can counter this severe threat to women in India. — Rani Sengupta, Dalitstan Journal, Volume 1, Issue 3 (Dec 1999)
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Shocking Sati in Bundelkhand Rig Veda X.95.10 " The nature of women is like that of the hyena." The month of November 1999 was a harrowing one for women all aross South Asia. The rise of militant Hindutva under benign BJP and Congress governments has led to massive human rights abuses and crimes against women in accordance with barbaric Vedic laws. Thus, a Dalit woman in a village in Bundlekhand was forced to immolate herself by fanatic upper-caste Hindus and her brain-washed relatives, whose minds had been saturated with the poisonous Vedic anti-woman hatred. Chicago Tribune, 18th November, 1999 NEW, ANCIENT INDIA CLASH OVER A DEATH Self-Immolation Points to the Banned Custom of Deifying Widows who Sacrifice Themselves" The recent self-immolation by a widow on her husband’s funeral pyre has drawn tens of thousands of Indians to a rural village to venerate her as a deity, a ritual outlawed 170 years ago. The events highlighted the vast gap in India between an urban society that produces high-tech computers, ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, and the country’s rural regions, where time has stood still and the female role model remains a self-sacrificing woman. … [ 30, 000 Hindus came to the site on ] ox carts, bicycles and in three-wheel scooters to fetch ashes from the funeral pyre and pray at a site deemed sacred, a ritual banned in 1829."… Shah’s self-immolation is as chilling as is the complicity of relatives and villagers who stood by and watched her die. Witnesses told police the widow took a ritual bath first. Then she dressed in her bridal gowns and walked to her husband’s cremation site. According to her family, she lit three candles on the cremation site and then tied one end of her sari to the leg of her spouse. Finally she "hopped" into the flames. Once she sat on the pyre everybody watched her with folded hands and allowed her to become a Sati. What horrified many Indians was the calm demeanor of Shah’s sons and relatives who watched her die and testified with pride: "She didn’t complain and she didn’t scream as she burned." A villager said that Shah "burned so quickly we couldn’t help her," but added, "We respected her wish to become a Sati."" ….. Women’s organizations say that even in the old days, before Sati was banned, most wives had to be drugged, "persuaded" or forced to burn themselves in the flames that incinerated the corpses of their husbands. Sati, though rare, is not uncommon in modern India, though few cases are officially recorded. The Sati case made front-page headlines in an India increasingly concerned that radical Hindus, on a crusade to resurrect old Hindu traditions, are finding fertile ground among rural villagers for whom religion remains a vital support in a world alien to them. Brinda Karat, of the All-India Democratic Forum for Women, cites "political agendas and regressive social mindsets" for the stagnation of social reforms and education. Her comment was a veiled reference to the tolerance of Hindu radicals by the ruling Hindu Nationalist Party, whose members often galvanize religious zeal to obtain votes. We call for immediate action against all those guilty. We demand that the government take stern and definite steps to protect the law of the land and, more importantly, demonstrate its political will to prevent use of religion to justify such atrocities against women," said a statement by Saheli, a leading women’s lobby group. The case has also prompted Indians to examine the lingering presence of the caste and dowry systems. Banned by law, discrimination against low-caste members continues in rural areas, and dowries, also outlawed, are a prerequisite for nearly every rural marriage."
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Shocking Sati in Bundelkhand Rig Veda X.95.10 " The nature of women is like that of the hyena." The month of November 1999 was a harrowing one for women all aross South Asia. The rise of militant Hindutva under benign BJP and Congress governments has led to massive human rights abuses and crimes against women in accordance with barbaric Vedic laws. Thus, a Dalit woman in a village in Bundlekhand was forced to immolate herself by fanatic upper-caste Hindus and her brain-washed relatives, whose minds had been saturated with the poisonous Vedic anti-woman hatred. Chicago Tribune, 18th November, 1999 NEW, ANCIENT INDIA CLASH OVER A DEATH Self-Immolation Points to the Banned Custom of Deifying Widows who Sacrifice Themselves" The recent self-immolation by a widow on her husband’s funeral pyre has drawn tens of thousands of Indians to a rural village to venerate her as a deity, a ritual outlawed 170 years ago.
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Times of India, Sun., 14 Nov. 1999 - Was it sati or suicide? Meena Misra SATPURA (Mahoba): Hordes of people, mostly women and children, are travelling to this remote village, on tractors and on foot, to worship the spot where a 56-year-old woman, Charan Shah, is said to have committed sati on the funeral pyre of her husband, Maan Shah, on Thursday Her brother, Malkhan Singh, and her son, Shishupal, who have been detained by the police, however, claimed that it was an accident and that both of them were having a ritual bath in a nearby nullah after cremating Maan Shah when the woman sneaked in to the burning ghat and climbed on to the pyre. Villagers are reluctant to speak out, scared that the police will pick them up too. But with a little coaxing they speak of how the woman was attached to her husband, and that she deliberately committed sati. Maan Shah, they said, was a chronic TB patient. They recalled how his wife had looked after him for close to three decades. They claimed that it was the emotional bond that made Charan Shah walk into the funeral pyre when nobody was looking. While a strong police force has blocked the main road to the village, 240 km from Kanpur, villagers have been taking detours to reach the site. People from even the neighbouring districts of Banda and Jalaun are making a beeline to the village. The police chief of Mahoba, however, said the woman had jumped onto the pyre in a fit of madness. Though some village women ran after her and tried to stop her, they failed, he added. It was just a case of suicide, according to him. He also made it clear that the woman was neither dressed in bridal finery nor was she singing any devotional song while jumping into the pyre and people had not collected to witness the spectacle. But resentment against the police and the district administration is brewing and people have started clamouring for free access to the site. Former BJP MP Ganga Charan Rajput visited the village on Saturday and said the police should allow the people to worship the site. “It is a question of faith and putting obstacles in the way of the people would only worsen the situation,” he said.
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Sword of Truth, Issue# 1999.47 November 20th, 1999 On November 11, 1999 Charan Shah, a 55 year old Dalit woman had to face the tragic death of her husband Man Shah. Man Shah was a chronic TB patient for over 30 years.
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