Author: Bibhuti Mishra
Publication: Sify News
Date: October 25, 2004
URL: http://headlines.sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13597015&headline=Missionaries~held~for~preaching~at~Puja
A Mumbai-based Pastor Karl Silva
and four Catholic missionaries have been arrested and sent to custody for
preaching in a tribal area during the Durga Puja festival. Their bail application
has been rejected too.
Reports reveal that the Christian
preachers were preaching last Thursday evening at Suliapada in Mayurbhanj
district. This annoyed the crowd and a local student opposed this and asked
the preachers to stop.
The preachers allegedly started
hurling abuses due to which the people complained to the police who intervened
and arrested the five preachers.
Mayurbhanj district was in the news
recently for VHP- sponsored reconversion ceremonies, where hundreds of
Christians were reconverted to Hinduism.
Abhiram Dhala, a local was among
the five preachers. Dhal, who had been staying in Mumbai for 12 years had
accompanied the Christian group on their mission to Suliapada. The other
Mumbai-based preachers are Roshan D'Souza, Ganesh Wankhede and Ramesh T
Thawar.
