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A church in Karnataka's Mangalore city was vandalised on Tuesday night by unknown attackers, police said on Wednesday. According to the police, the window panes and doors of the church were damaged, though the idols inside remained untouched.
The attack came barely days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to protect all religious groups, a remark apparently triggered by a series of similar attacks on Christian institutions in New Delhi.
"The world is at the crossroads, which if not crossed properly, can throw us back to the dark ages," Modi said at New Delhi's Vigyan Bhawan. "I have a vision for a modern India. My mantra is development. Sabka saath, sabka vikas (harmony with all, development for all)," he said, repeating the BJP's pet slogan in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections last year.
Earlier this month, a Christian convent school was vandalised in South Delhi's Vasant Vihar area, forcing Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani to make a quick visit. It was the sixth attack on a Christian institution in the national capital in two months.
The attacks had even forced US President Barack Obama to make the controversial statement earlier this month that Mahatma Gandhi would have been shocked by a few things happening in India today.
In a scathing editorial, the New York Times also said, "Attacks at Christian places of worship have prompted no response from the man elected to represent and to protect all of India's citizens."
The editorial blamed Modi for his "deafening silence" on the attacks. "Nor has he addressed the mass conversion to Hinduism of Christians and Muslims who have been coerced or promised money," it said.
Read more at: Mangalore church vandalised days after Modi's call for tolerance : North, News - India Today
The attack came barely days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to protect all religious groups, a remark apparently triggered by a series of similar attacks on Christian institutions in New Delhi.
"The world is at the crossroads, which if not crossed properly, can throw us back to the dark ages," Modi said at New Delhi's Vigyan Bhawan. "I have a vision for a modern India. My mantra is development. Sabka saath, sabka vikas (harmony with all, development for all)," he said, repeating the BJP's pet slogan in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections last year.
Earlier this month, a Christian convent school was vandalised in South Delhi's Vasant Vihar area, forcing Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani to make a quick visit. It was the sixth attack on a Christian institution in the national capital in two months.
The attacks had even forced US President Barack Obama to make the controversial statement earlier this month that Mahatma Gandhi would have been shocked by a few things happening in India today.
In a scathing editorial, the New York Times also said, "Attacks at Christian places of worship have prompted no response from the man elected to represent and to protect all of India's citizens."
The editorial blamed Modi for his "deafening silence" on the attacks. "Nor has he addressed the mass conversion to Hinduism of Christians and Muslims who have been coerced or promised money," it said.
Read more at: Mangalore church vandalised days after Modi's call for tolerance : North, News - India Today