Attack on nun,priest condemned

By Our SpecialCorrespondent

NEW DELHI, AUG. 8. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India and the All India Christian Council have condemned the attack on two Catholic missionaries in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra on Monday. The Archdiocese of Mumbai has decided to keep all Catholic schools within its jurisdiction closed on August 13 as a mark of protest.

While Sister Leena of Nirmala Hospital was shot at and injured in Ujjain on Monday, the priest, Fr. Oscar Mendonca, was attacked and injured in Thane the same day.

The CBCI secretary general, Archbishop Oswald Gracias, said: ``I was beginning to think that attacks on Christians were becoming a thing of the past, but these attacks on the same day in two different States have sent distressing signals to the Christian community in the country.''

The AICC urged the Prime Minister to rein in Sangh Parivar vigilantes``who have taken the law into their own hands and have attacked Christian religious persons''.

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