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Monday, June 23, 2008

Christian Institution attacked and threatened by Hindu radicals in India

By James Varghese
Special to ASSIST News Service
MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (ANS) — An Indian Roman Catholic girl’s high school was attacked on Thursday, June 19, 2008, by Hindu radicals.

According to news released by www.persecution.in, the activists belonging to Maharashtra Navikarna Sena (MNS), a political party of Maharashtra state, barged into the school premises of Mary Immaculate Girl’s High School, Jeevan Bima Nagar, Borivali West.

The site reported that the mob was “unruly and behaved in a threatening manner”, hurling “abuse and derogatory remarks” against the school principal and manager also of whom were Catholic nuns. The Sisters were said to have been “terrified” by the attack.

According to the news source, the MNS activists threatened the institution that they would return on June 24th at 10.00 a.m. It was reported in the website that they threatened the school authorities and told that if their demands are not met (admission for all children in the school), then they will shut down the school for an indefinite period of time.

The website also reported that this warning was not limited just to this school but to all convent schools in the state of Maharashtra.

James Varghese is a reporter for the “V” TV news in Gokak, Karnataka state, India, and is freelance journalist working for ANS.
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