Another Christian woman was killed yesterday in Orissa and another 300 houses were burned down, while the state authorities, following these new violent attacks, have imposed a night and day curfew in the district of Kandhamal. This brings to 60 the number of Christians who have been killed by the Hindu fundamentalists since August 23rd, with 18,000 injured people and over 50,000 people running away, while violent attacks are spreading to other Indian States, even Karnataka and Kerala, where there has always traditionally been harmony between different religions. Even the Christian community of Mumbai "is worried explains to SIR father Carlo Torriani, who has been a missionary for PIME for 40 years among the lepers in Mumbai because the news was published that in a Mumbai suburb the radical activists of Rashtrya Swayam Sevak Sangh met to plan attacks here in Maharastra, which had been spared so far. There is the risk that they may try to do something even here, even if inter-religious dialogue works well here". Father Torriani shares the position of the Indian Bishops, expressed in a latter dated September 26th saying that violence against Christians is "an organised strategy". (continued)
