Sir, Except for Goa-Kerala-Nagaland where Christians are in sizeable numbers and also have some form of state protection in all other states in India christians are few in numbers and live under permanent threat from the right wing Hindutva / Hitlerite forces. Under such circumstances it is important that christians in these states form their own self defence groups in every parish and in every village so that they will be in a position to protect their lives, families, livelihoods, properties, churches as and when the right wing hindutva forces decide to replicate the kandhmal experiment in their parish/village.
But putting all the blame on the right wing hindutva forces is not justified the reason for this is that christian missionaires are also provoking the right wing hindutva forces by indulging in allurement based coversion activities. If the christian missionaries are not indulging in allurement based conversion activities then they should explain why they are opposing the anti-conversion laws and why they are operating only where the poorest of the poor people live and why they are demanding reservations only for dalits/sc/st christians and why they are utilizing all their foreign funds to serve only poor non-christians. The Clergy including Bishops and Cardinals have misued the 'Responsbile Freedom' which was granted to them by the Vatican - II council of 1962-1965. Corruption has become rampant in the catholic church after the Vatican II council. Church properties are being sold off. Church finances are being misused. Today hardly any lay catholic trusts the clergy and hardly any catholic goes for confession. The realities inside the church door are not mixing with the realities outside the church door. Guess which ones are winning. The historical rituals of Catholicism were immediately abandoned after Vatican-II. The changes in rituals and environment obscured the definitive truths which were so visible in the past and left an emptiness in their place. Altars were moved out from the wall, and the priest went to the other side facing the people. He spoke in English or Vernacular instead of Latin. Guitars were brought in to replace organs. People sang folk songs, while papers shuffling and chairs rattling was all else that was heard. *VATICAN-II *BROUGHT CONFUSION, CORRUPTION AND APOSTASY, and that was the warning from the Third Secret of Fatima. The Blessed Virgin warned against modernizing the church because the result would be irreconcilable *Corruption, *Pedophilia and homosexuality among priests, and the end of respect for such a "democratic" institution, such as what happened to the Protestants- everyone went off on their own and started making up their own rules and interpretations. *Planet Earth does not have unlimited resources to satisfy the wants and needs of every human being. Hence it is important that couples have one or two or maximum three children. Else more population means more hunger, unemployement, family problems, poverty, wars, natural disasters, etc. The Vatican may oppose family planning but the fact is most of the teenage or married catholics in present day practice family planning.* Christ in Christian....Christian in Christ. Daniel Rodrigues Pune, Maharashtra.