Mammoth protest rejecting church attacks report on Feb 20

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February 17, 2011

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Mangalore, February 17: The Catholic Diocese of Mangalore in association with different churches and secular organisations will take out a mammoth silent protest rally rejecting the report of the Justice BK Somasekhar Commission on Sunday, February 20, from Jyothi Circle to Nehru Maidan at 3 pm.

Vicar General of Catholic Diocese of Mangalore Rev. Monsignor Denis Prabhu, told media persons at Press Club here on Thursday, said that confused and totally biased report of Justice Somasekhara Commission had silenced the witness and records submitted before the court by more than 1000 Christians and secular petitioners regarding the fundamentalists' attack on Churches and institutions.

Although Bajarangadal and Hindu fundamental outfits claimed that they are responsible for the attacks and the police witnessed the same, the clean chit had been given. Police, who acted cruelly and inhumanly with women, children and elderly Christians, have also been given a clean chit. Moreover, the District Administration and the Government which did not take any steps to avoid the attacks, has also been cleared off, he said.

“We protest against the recommendation of the Commission to keep tight control and check on the audit records of Christian Churches and pastors, although the Commission has said that there were no incidents of conversion through force and fraud,” he said.

Despite the then convener of Bajarang Dal confessing that their motto was to create a Hindu nation, the Commission has not given any recommendations to control the Hindu fundamental outfits which are against secularism, he said.

The Senior Pastor of CSI Church of Karnataka Diocese and Head of the Gorigudda Hebik Memorial Church Rev Samuel Jathanna, President of Karnataka Missions Network Walter Maben, PRO of Mangalore Diocese Fr William Menezes, Coorporator Mariamma Thomas, CODP Director Fr Onil Fernadese and others were present at the press meet.




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"Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has announced Rs 30 lakhs compensation for Anganwadi workers & assistants, civil workers, and police personnel who die after getting infected by COVID-19 while carrying out their duties," State Chief Minister's Office said in a statement.

According to Union Health Ministry website, a total of 557 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the state so far including 223 cured and 21 deaths.

Meanwhile, With 1,823 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the last 24 hours and 67 deaths, India's total count of coronavirus cases has gone up to 33,610, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday.

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Bengaluru, Mar 30: Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Sunday convened an all-party meeting and apprised the Opposition leaders about the measures taken by the government to contain the coronavirus in the state.

"I have been regularly holding meeting since March 13 regarding the measures taken to contain the transmission of COVID-19," the chief minister said at the meeting at the Vidhana Soudha.

Health Minister B Sriramulu, Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar, IT-BT Minister C N Aswath Narayan, Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi, former chief minister and Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah, Opposition MLAs H D Revanna, D K Shivakumar and former speaker K R Ramesh Kumar attended the meeting.

The chief minister said a task force comprising ministers and officials has been formed to oversee the implementation of the government orders.

Yediyurappa highlighted the prevailing situation across the globe saying that normal life had been paralysed everywhere.

The chief minister also apprised them about the number of clinics all over the state, availability of medicines and protection gear for the doctors and quarantine rooms in the state.

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A video went viral online showing the expat, apparently with little knowledge of the Arabic language, being insulated by an Arabic-speaking man who does not appear in the clip, for having not embraced Islam and for not fasting.

A monitoring centre affiliated with the public prosecution examined the video the content of which “shows the citizen’s use of abusive words against the Asian resident on the pretext of inviting him to Islam,” the prosecution source said.

“The public prosecution closely follows up whatever infringes rights of citizens and residents including harm to their dignity and legal rights regardless of pretexts of such infringement,” the source added.

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