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Archbishop: Orissa Christians fearful as anniversary of violence nears
08-08-2009
BHUBANESWAR, India (CNS) -- A Catholic archbishop said Christians in the Indian state of Orissa are becoming more fearful with the approach of the first anniversary of the anti-Christian violence they experienced.
Archbishop Raphael Cheenath of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar said that Christians are tense after an Aug. 6 attack on a Catholic worker, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News.
A gang attacked Chikusagar Nayak, who works with the archdiocese's justice and peace commission in the Kandhamal district, the center of last year's violence. Nayak suffered a broken arm in the attack.
When the attack occurred Nayak was returning on a motorbike to Udayagiri, a town in Kandhamal, from a village where he had gone to counsel victims of last year's violence. Archbishop Cheenath said the Catholic youth is helping to prepare witnesses for court cases against perpetrators of the violence.
He said people are afraid because "hard-core criminals are still on the loose."
The prelate said only a few people accused in last year's violence have been arrested.
Some of them have even been acquitted for lack of sufficient evidence and are threatening victims and witnesses, he added.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20090807.htm
