Anti-Christian attacks seen as ‘military-like operations’

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/09/28/anti-christian-attacks-seen-as-military-like-operations/

[Anglican Mainstream] 29 Sep 2008--In an incisive analysis of the wave of the anti-Christian violence that has swept India, Joseph Dias, general secretary of the Mumbai-based Catholic Secular Forum, told the Indian news portal Rediff.com that anti-Christian attacks are ‘military-like operations, carried out with clinical precision and are brutal, with no discrimination, sparing neither clergy, women, nor children. The objectives are manifold — consolidation of the Hindu vote, polarization of the majority and minorities, demonizing the community, crippling Christians economically.’

In Italy, bishops called upon the EU to add anti-Christian violence to the agenda of the September 29 EU-India summit, while in Karnataka, Archbishop Bernard Moras told the leader of the state government that ‘I am prepared to shed my blood and give my life for protection of churches.’