------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRI Continental Film Festival - Dona Paula, Goa, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2007
http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm For public viewing. Registration at The International Centre Goa. (Ph: +91-832-2452805 to 10) Online Media Partner: http://www.GOANET.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Concern over bias against minority community THE HINDU: Tuesday, Sep 25, 2007 Special Correspondent Its members are being prevented from practising their faith PANAJI: The Citizens Initiatives for Communal Harmony (CICH), a local social group, has noted with concern that a pattern has been emerging in Goa of preventing a minority community from practising their faith, thus perpetuating a feeling among people of the community that they are being discriminated against. In its recent representation submitted to Chief Secretary J.P. Singh, CICH conveners Ramesh Gauns and Albertina Almeida said that the State Government must intervene to ensure that the fundamental rights of the said minority community to practise their faith were protected. The memorandum said that the case of the prayer house at Chinchinim in south Goa was among a series of such prevention tactics. The most recent case at Chinchinim was essentially an attempt to stop the people of a minority community from holding community prayers although people in the area had been praying there since 2002, the CICH said. The CICH has drawn the attention of the Government to the fact that myths are being propagated by vested interests to create fear about the place that it will turn into an abode of terrorists. But during its fact-finding mission, the CICH did not find any person complaining about noise. Another issue that the CICH found being raised is that the prayer hall is in a residential zone. The CICH has pointed out that there is no separate zoning for religious structures. http://inwww.rediff.com/newshound/ga.html Sanny de Quepem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
