Vatican: The Persecution in Orrisa, India
Today there is an article questioning why the West is relatively silent on the persecution going on in Orrisa. Well, I can tell you that The Voice of the Martyrs hasn't been silent about the issue, as we have reported about this on this blog, however, I'd agree that most of the mainstream media basically ignores Christian persecution.
The article begins this way...
By Giorgio Bernardelli
5/19/2008
"Why does no one in the West raise his voice about what is happening in Orissa?"
ROMA (Chiesa) - "In the village, the climate between us and the Hindus had always been good. We invited them to our celebrations, and we participated in theirs. But now we are all afraid." Fr. Santosh Kumar Singh, a young priest of the archdiocese of Chuttack and Bhubaneswar, is talking about his Baminigam.
He is talking about a village like so many others in this area of eastern India. A group of houses in the forest that, all of a sudden, has been turned into the epicenter of the strongest wave of anti-Christian violence in recent years.