Mangalore(28th December-2011)

Time-9.40pm
Today at about 9.40pm Hindu radicals ranskaed ten year old Hebron Assembly Church at Hallengadi,in Mulki , Mangalore District.The radicals also trespassed into pastor Prasanna's(40) house and destroyed all the house hold items.The doors and windows of the Hebron church was also badly damaged in the attack. An FIR is lodged in the Mulki policve station.  read more »

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Karnataka,-church-of-St.-Alphonsus-desecr...
Karnataka, church of St. Alphonsus desecrated. Indian bishop: a cowardly act
by Nirmala Carvalho

Sajan K George, activist and president of the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), who speaks of the "38th anti-Christian attack in Karnataka ", where the BJP government - movement linked to the Hindu wing extremist - does not guarantee safety for religious minorities. He denounces the "complicity of the authorities" and the ease with which extremists flee from the shackles of law. And the sense of impunity, says Sajan K George, is confirmed by the derisory penalties imposed on perpetrators of violence against churches in Mangalore in 2008: all this has ensured a sense of impunity, which "allows fundamentalists to perpetuate their reign of terror and sectarian violence. "
Some young people destroyed a statue of Christ, religious objects and ruined a Bible. One of the vandals even dressed up in the religious vestments. For Mgr. Mukkuzhy the incident has "hurt the sensibilities of the faithful." Christian activist points finger at the state government, which covers up extremist violence.  read more »

Celebrating a bicentenary
From another time and culture, a proselytiser and Kannada litterateur

One-hundred-and-seventy-five years ago a diminutive German arrived on the shores of Mangalore armed with the Bible, seeking to spread the message of the Gospel.
Seven years later, in 1843, the Christian missionary had mastered Kannada well enough to launch Karnataka’s first vernacular newspaper Mangalura Samachara.  read more »

Mangalore, 12 April 2011: The Bajrang Dal activists who prevented the students of Stella Maris orphange from travelling to Bidar on April 8, also threatened the students by saying that ’’they will be kidnapped’’ and ’’their kidneys will be removed,’’ if they (students) did not answer the queries posed by Bajrang Dal activists, alleged Stella Maris School Headmistress Rev Sr P F Madtha.
Addressing media persons at a press meet at St Agnes College here on Tuesday, she narrated the entire incident — right from Bajrang Dal activists stopping the bus from travelling to Bidar (the students’ native place) to police taking them to Children’s Observation Home in Bondel, to their release finally at 10 pm.Terming the entire incident as ‘atrocious,’ Sr Madtha said the Bajrang Dal activists not only traumatised the children, but also made them starve without food or water from 1 pm till 10 pm on that day.  read more »

Mulky-(Mangalore), Apr 3:
Mulki: The women and children welfare department officials led by Asha Nayak on Saturday raided Ebenezer Mercy Home,said to be the centre run by the Pentecostal community of Christians and situated on the Haleangady-Pakshikere road. The officials took into their custody twentynine children who were allegedly being ill-treated in the hostel.Later the children were shifted to the remand home.

It all started with media reports a few days ago with a complaint from the residents that effluent water from the prayer centre was being released to the roads, causing inconvenience and creating health hazards.It is said that over the past four years the centre was being run under the control of Bethel ministry of Bangalore.Twenty eight children were reportedly staying in the centre without any records out of which- 18 children from Karnataka, 7 from Bihar and rest from other states.

The Centre's Version

However, K J Joy along with wife Elizabeth and son Joel and Joby, who supervised the centre, said that they had been looking after the children at the request of their parents and guardians. He said that they looked after needy children entirely with the help of donations. he also explained that their ministry has over 30 such support centres. Sujay,one of the inmates, said they were being well cared for.  read more »

Friday, 17 September 2010 17:39

Mangalore, September 17: Masjidun Noor, which created history by arranging a place for women inside the Masjid for the first time in the city approximately two decades ago, witnessed a strange Jum’a on Friday, September 17 on the basis of a court order.
Two groups of people engaged in a scuffle inside the Masjid premises  read more »