AmericanPapist Comments
Your rhetorical question seems to imply that the worst is over for Christians in Orissa.
According to my Indian confreres here in Rome (and in Orissa)... Not so!
I would suggest the blog "ORISSA BURNING" for continued reports on the situation. Many of my SVD confreres are reported there or are listed as victims of the violence:
Fr. Simon Lakra, SVD
Fr. Edward Sequeira, SVD
Fr. Babu Joseph, SVD
Fr. Augustine Kanjamala, SVD
Archbishop Raphael Cheenath, SVD
The more than 140 SVD priests and brothers in Orissa would ask that you continue to make public the persecution of Christians and their forced re-conversion to Hinduism.
http://orissaburning.blogspot.com/
Fr. David Streit, SVD
Asst. Secretary General, Rome
Thank you for your comment, Father. I've updated the post to include it. God Bless.
How come that only the American Papist and a few others (to be counted on the fingers) addressed the Orissa issue, where thousands of Christians and Catholics could lose their lives?. The rest of Catholic blogdom seems to be straining their necks in an opposite direction. Is there a name for this disease?. Or is it just that, irrespective of the huge volumes of written material, the quality of faith is sentimental and lacks any real substance.
I don't know. People tend to write about what they have familiarity and knowledge of. Now it may well be that we ought to get more knowledgeable about Orissa, but I'm so sure reducing that tragedy to a mere rhetorical hand grenade to toss at the blogosphere is the best way to go about it.
"not so sure" is what I meant to say.
India is shining under BJP throughout the world and winning gold medals for looting, shooting, arsoning, raping, rioting, burning, killing, destroying what was built over years.
India is impotent and poor. Like a child, India is destroying itself, contaminating itself with the blood of the innocent martyrs...
Orissa is a poor state. Missionaries have devoted their lives for the uplift of the poor people. Hindus cannot see the tribals being free from slavery. They want to keep them under their thumb. They are not Hindus. Why should they be 're-converted' to Hinduism? They need more help on the part of the Christians. I hope that India will shine only when it remains secular, when the human rights are respected, when people respect their own brethren and their own land...
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