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Orissa violence: Bishops worried

MADURAI: Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council has expressed serious concern over the violence in Orissa in which a 20-year-old woman was burnt alive at Khuntpalli village in Bargarh district on Monday.

In a statement issued here on Tuesday, Archbishop of Madurai Rev. Fr. Peter Fernando said that politicians, who had tasted victory by mobilising majority support on the basis of religion, had unleashed the violence.

Rev. Fr. Fernando, who is also the council president, called upon secular and democratic forces to look at the incidents as an assault on humanism, human rights, religious freedom and democracy.

He wanted the Bharatiya Janata Party-backed Orissa Government to stop the violence. The Archbishop also appealed to the Union Home Ministry to intervene immediately to prevent further violence against Christians.

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