Indian Christians: Stop the Killing

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080926/indian-christians-stop-the-killing.htm

[The Christian Post] 27 Sep 2008--Peace rallies demanding an end to the continual violence against Christians in India were held Thursday across the street from the White House as well as on Friday in India’s capital city of New Delhi.

Dozens of people, mostly Indian-Americans, huddled under umbrellas at Lafayette Park as they held signs protesting the widespread persecution of Christians in India. The peace rally and subsequent prayer vigil were purposely organized to coincide with the White House visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

“The Federation declared that it holds the Prime Minister and the Home Minister of India responsible for any lives lost and damage caused to the churches and properties due to their inefficiency in stopping this violence,” declared one of the rally organizers, Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations of North America (FIACONA), in a statement.

FIACONA demands that the central government, rather than the state government, rehabilitate the victims and supervise their recovery because many of them are controlled by Hindu nationalist parties.

It also demands the Indian president to remove the state governments from power if they continue to “fail to respect and uphold the Constitutional rights of its citizens, in their respective state.”

The group further called for the Indian prime minister to impose an immediate ban on radical fundamentalist groups such as Vishwa Hindu Parishand (VHP), Bajrandal and their parent ideological group the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).