By Melwyn Pinto SJ
BANGALORE, Jan 30: Communal forces allegedly beat up students of St Joseph’s PU College, Anekal near Banglaore and paraded the Principal of the College to police station here on January 27, accusing the College of not hoisting the national flag on Republic Day.

The incident took place on January 27 as an unruly mob of over one hundred belonging to ABVP, VHP, Rashtra Shakti Sene and Karnatak Rakshana Vedike barged into the College campus demanding action against the Principal and the College management for not hoisting the national flag on the previous day. Some of the elected councilors of the Anekal Muncipality too were part of the mob.  read more »

Puttamma and her son Suresh Babu at their home in Kooguru village on the outskirts of Bangalore. Photo: K. Gopinathan
http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/article2840643.ece
Nearly 20 days after a group of men attacked a gathering of Dalit Christians in
Kooguru village, near Sarjapur, the handful of Dalit Christians in the village now live in fear of being ostracised.  read more »

Anekal- Bangalore Rural-(11-01-12): Rev. Srirangam Shanthakumar, (39), is a pastor of the Agape Church and has been spreading the good news during the last 15 years in Anekal, a part of Bangalore Rural District in Karnataka. As a result of his committed hard work, he has been able to build two churches, one in Anekal proper with about 500 believers, and the other in Chandapur also a part of Anekal Taluk, with about 300 believers. His wife, Rashmi, (35), is also actively involved in the work of the pastor, and they have two children – Abhishek and Raksha.  read more »

Lingarajpuram – Bangalore: 19-12-2011- Agape Bible Church was attacked and Sunday worship Service was stopped by the Hindu fanatics at Pillanna Garden near Lingarajpuram, in Bangalore, on Sunday morning, 18-12-2011. As also reported in the secular media, over 200 activists of the right wing group Hindu Jagran Vedike, barged into the church when the Sunday prayers were on and attacked its Pastors Reuben Satyaraj and Perumal Fernandes. It was a regular Sunday Service wherein some of the believers “were only being given baptism to confirm their membership to the church, as part of a regular year-end program,” according to the statement of one of the church leaders.  read more »

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/rev-ferdinand-kittel--the-kannada-saint/20222...

HUBLI: German missionaries, with the knowledge of Bible and the life of Christ, entered India to propagate the religion against all odds.
Rev Ferdinand Kittel is one among such luminaries like Herman Mogling, ReJohn Layor, Y Muller, Godfrey, George Urth and Fredrick Zigler.
Mogling came to India in 1853 and undertook exhaustive studies learning the Kannada language, customs and local music. After serving as deputy to Herman Mogling, Kittel was sent to Dharwad. Noticing the dearth of literature on religion in the local language, while propagating ‘Suvarte’, Kittel wrote and released ‘Kathamale’ in 1862.  read more »

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=120134 From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore
Bangalore, Oct 25: His Excellency Salvatore Pennacchio, the Ambassador of Vatican State to India, unveiled and blessed the statue of Blessed John Paul II at the Church dedicated in his name at K Channasandra, Horamavu , in the outskirts of Bangalore on Tuesday.  read more »