Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Toll in India’s anti-Christian violence reaches 60

http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=3176

[Religious Intelligence] 29 Oct 2008--As a Catholic priest, who was attacked two months ago in the eastern state of Orissa, succumbed to his injuries yesterday, the death toll of the worst-ever spate of anti-Christian violence has reached 60.

Fr Bernard Digal, the treasurer of the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Archdiocese, was attacked on August 24 in Orissa’s Kandhamal district. He succumbed to injuries yesterday in a hospital in Chennai, the capital of the southern sate of Tamil Nadu, said the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) in a statement.

The attackers had left the victim lying naked, bleeding and unconscious on the road thinking he was dead. He received heavy blows on this head and other parts of the body. He spent the night on the road until help came the following morning.

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