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The CHRISTmas Walking Pilgrimage at Vakola, Santacruz (E), Mumbai
President & Vice President serious about Christian persecution
Seen in the pics above are (L) Mrs. Pratibha Patil, President of India and (R) Mr. Mohammed Hamid Ansari, Vice President, along with Justice Michael Saldanha, Ms. Marie Therese and Joseph Dias of The CSF presenting Christian persecution & religious liberty issues in India. Click here for details ...
NDTV Verdict - Sex & men of God
Proof of Homosexuality - Paedophilia Link?
Kindly check out this PDF file for more details: homo-abuse.pdf |
Stations of the Cross - 2010
Click here for more info on the sad & sorry state of Kashmiri Christians, forgotten by the community. |
Bangalore church attacked - statues desecrated Yet another Church attacked, just 20 kms off Bangalore. Who does something about it ? What do we do next ?
We are on the verge of a breakthrough with respect to our mission towards creating an infrastructure to tackle such issues. Keep the prayers going.
Manglorean D'Souza family of 5 - who attempted suicide due to acute poverty
Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons (of Da Vinci Code fame)
- a Columbia Pictures Blockbuster to be Released Worldwide on 15 May, 2009
• Why Church & Civil Society Need to Call for a Ban
• The Catholic League, USA & The CSF Campaign
by Joseph Dias, general secretary, The Catholic-Christian Secular Forum (CSF)* thecsf.org@gmail.com
* The CSF besides other espousing a number of Christian activist causes, was also majorly responsible for Da Vinci Code being released late in India, getting it banned in some places and allowing it to be released with a prominent Disclaimer. Angels & Demons seems to be even more diabolic… read on & decide.
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A Pope who fathers a child by artificially inseminating a nun, claiming both are virgins. The Pope is indebted to Science for this miracle and allows a priest to pursue science. |
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Actions of various Popes with respect to ‘pornographic’ Vatican religious sculptures mocked, like sculptures of St. Teresa or Vatican’s male nude statues. |
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Two Popes get elected, one happens to be the murdered Pope’s son, who is Pope for as little as 17 minutes, as per ancient Roman law. |
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Lies about historical events, issues and persons, like the Church’s anti-Science stance, Illuminati, Crusades, Galileo, Bernini, CERN, etc. |
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Negative portrayal of Popes, as Murderers, Swindlers or Cheats and Vatican as a den of criminals & schemers for world dominion. |
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Free Masons and the Vatican alleged to be involved in a financial fraud, leading to even the murder of the Pope. |
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Cross, Christmas, Sun Worship, Canonisation, Holy Communion…borrowed & repackaged by Christianity. |
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Catholic Church, the Papal institution & election of Popes ridiculed, decried, trivialized. |
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Desecrates religion, incites religious communities against the other & hurts sentiments. |
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Nefarious motives imputed to the Catholic Church, which is made villain of the story. |
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Heart-breaking News
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Police Whitewash Bangalore Anti-Christian Slogans
The wall paintings carrying anti-Christian and anti-Muslim slogans which were found on Bangalore walls, have now disappeared, with the ruling government acting on Archbishop Moras's complaint. The chief secretary it is learnt asked the Bangalore Police Commissioner to take action and the police white-washed the walls.
The police commissioner, Bidari also assured Archbishop that action will be taken if any one attempts to hurt the sentiments of any religion through writings on the wall or any other means. There are now complaints that vested interests are usurping the lands belonging to or traditionally used by Christians in a big way in Karnataka.
Kerala Govt Acts on Anti-Clergy VCD
Kerala government suspends a teacher in a bid to quell a controversy over a short film that portrays a bishop and a priest in a bad light, said M.A. Baby, education minister of the southern Indian state. The film, "The Wounds," tells the story of a child who was given a lamb by a mendicant with wounded hands and feet. As the lamb plays on the street, a bishop's car hits it. The bishop's driver then carries the lamb into the car. When the boy reaches the bishop's residence searching for the lamb, the driver and a priest beat him and throw him out. As the boy weeps outside the gate, the bishop is shown having the lamb for lunch. The mendicant, who resembles Christ, then comes and consoles the boy. Church leaders in Kerala earlier criticized the film.
Archbishop Daniel Acharuparambil of Verapoly, president of the Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council, in a statement described the film as part of the communist government's "hidden agenda to malign the Church's image in the state." He added, "If necessary we will take steps to counter it legally." The archbishop has accused the communist government of carrying out a campaign against the Church and its leaders for the past three years. The bishops' council has also demanded the immediate withdrawal of the study material.
Father Paul Thelakat, spokesman of the Syro-Malabar Church, said the film was an "uncultured" means to malign the Church. "It is highly objectionable and reprehensible to have prescribed such a film as study material for young children," the priest said. This is the second controversy between the Church and the communists over educational material after the Marxist-led coalition came to power in Kerala three years ago. In 2008, Christian and Muslim groups protested certain portions in a school textbook that allegedly promoted atheism.
God loves a cheerful giver - 2 Cor 9:8 |
St. Bernadette statue at 400 year Immaculate Conception Church, Udipi vandalised.
Pieces found in gutter
Kundapur, Mar 1: The residents of Gangolli, a village near Kundapur woke up on Sunday March 1 to the disturbing news that a statue of St Bernadette at the 400-year-old Church of Immaculate Conception, had been broken by unknown miscreants.
The statue was installed in the grotto. Its pieces were discovered in a gutter by some devotees of the church. The incident has marred the usually peaceful and serene atmosphere on the church precincts.
However, the situation is under control. A police squad accomanied by a sniffer dog and fingerprint experts inspected the area in search of clues.
Madhukar Pawar, superintendent of police, Udupi district, K N Ramesh, assistant commissioner, Kundapur, and C K Shashidhar, deputy superintendent, Kundapur range, visited the spot and assessed the situation. Vicar of Kundapur Varado Fr Alban D'souza, parish priest of Gangolli Fr Alfonse D'lima, and former MLA Byndoor Gopal Poojary appealed to the people to maintain law and order and assured them of bringing the culprits to justice.
Among those present were Jerald Crasta, Helen Rebebro, A J Bothello, Kiran Crasta, Edward Cardin, Felix Fernandez, Herik Gonsalvies, Michael D'souza, Vinod Fernandez, Michel Rebero, Kundapur Varado Legal Committee co-ordinator (Alvin Quardres), planning committee co-ordinator (Valerian Menezes), Catholic Sabha former president Dr Sony D'costa, Darik Crasta, Johnson Almeida, etc. Fr Anil Cornelio Trasi, Fr Philip Nere Aranha and Byndoor MLA Laxminarayana, also visited the spot.
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Black Christmas Crib / Manger & Fast to mark Orissa Anniversary |
Protest Appeal to Halt Pre-Christmas Violence
Orissa Bloodbath Continues - Worse than Mumbai Terror
Activists of The Catholic Secular Forum (CSF), a Mumbai-based community NGO undertook a day's fast to mark the first anniversary, since anti-Christian violence shook Orissa and showed a marked increase since in at least 8 states in the country. They were protesting against Government's inaction in the Orissa and called for protection in the wake of pre-Christmas attacks on the community. Alongside the activists on fast at Azad Maidan was a Black Christmas Crib or a manger depicting the birth of Jesus. A similar one was torched near Nagarcoil in Tamil Nadu, last week and threats issued to do so in other places too. Yet another cathechist (pastor/priest) was murdered this week and The CSF received reports of pre-Christmas violence from Orissa and at many other states, such as -
* A Christmas Crib at Kulasekaram village, 35 km from Nagarcoil, was torched on 16, December.
* Hindu extremists attacked a Christmas function on 14, December in Bangarapet, Kolar, Karnataka.
* In Sangur, Punjab, Operation Mobilization (OM) workers were allegedly attacked on 2, December 2008.
According to Joseph Dias, general secretary, The CSF, attacks by non-state players has increased in vigour, during the run-up religious for Christmas. The saffron brigade has reduced freedom of religion to a farce in Orissa, where there has been no respite for a year, despite assurances by the union and state governments. In an open letter to the Prime Minister, Union Home Minister and other political leaders said they would sound insincere, merely rendered lip-service to Christians by wishing them on Christmas this year, as is traditionally done. This is since not much has been done about the plight of the community in 2008. There has been no let up in the attacks on Christians and the potential danger of attacks increasing during Christmas is even more.
Despite the calling off of the proposed Christmas bandh, Orissa continues to be a communal cauldron and according to The CSF, the mob terror unleashed by the fundamentalists in Orissa makes it equal, if not more disastrous than the Mumbai terror attacks. The government and citizens therefore need to pay equal, if not more attention to communalism and mob terror, if India's secular fabric is not to be torn asunder by extremist elements. The CSF general secretary, Joseph Dias compares the Orissa and Mumbai terror to show how on many counts, the eminent danger from the saffron brigade was worse.
In Orissa, the situation has not improved, as even this Christmas, religious service will be held by over 12,000 persons are in 9 relief camps in Kandhamal district alone and an equal number in another 13 affected districts, like Jharsuguda or Bherampur. At least another 30,000 are hiding in the forests of Orissa and thousands of families fleeing to the state capital Bhubaneshwar or other states, like Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi or Goa. The conditions in Orissa relief camps are similar to Nazi concentration camps, where inmates are starved and medical conditions are pathetic. Infliction of atrocities continues on those who return to their homes and persecution has reached alarming proportions. Even pregnant mothers and infants are not spared. Normalcy has not returned to the state, a year after the last Christmas eve attacks and 4 months after bloodbath caused by Swami Saraswati’s death. India is only second to Iraq in the death toll due to terrorist attacks as recorded by the National Counter-Terrorism Center in Washington DC. This doesn’t account for premeditated mob violence which is increasingly targeted at minorities as seen in the ethnic cleansing of dalit and tribal Christians.
The protesters also called upon the PM, Home Minister, Chief Ministers & Political Leaders to give same priority to communalism, if India is to justify its place in the comity of nations, as a developed country of the world.
Click here to view The CSF Open Letter - No Home for Christmas |
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1090 - All India Toll-free Terror Help-line
In case you come across any suspicious activity, any suspicious movement or have any information to tell to the Anti-Terror Squad, please take a Note of the new ALL INDIA TOLL-FREE Terror Help-line "1090". Your city's Police or Anti-Terror squad will take action as quickly as possible.
Remember that this single number 1090 is valid all over India. This is a toll free number and can be dialed from mobile phones also. Moreover, the identity of the caller will be kept a secret. Let us make each and every citizen of India aware about this facility. |
IMPORTANT APPEAL:
The CSF is setting-up a major DATABANK, which will be of great service to the community to meet the challenges we are presently confronting. Nothing of this kind exists in India & the expenses for the same are expected to be Rs. 2,50,000 or US$ 5555 approx. This will be for office, staff, systems, stationery, etc. We are looking for partners, who are prompted or blessed by the LORD to help us out. If you feel called to defray the costs, please send your contact details to thecsf.ceo@gmail.com |
The CSF Protest March from St. Peter's Church to Mount Mary's, Bandra
Be a Blessing. Bless someone NOW.
A visit a day to www.thecsf.org can keep the devil away.
You are now part of influential Catholics from Mumbai, India and around the world, who are making a big difference, supported by the Church - Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, Laity... |
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What are you waiting for ... Your logging on to www.thecsf.org will make someone's day a little brighter - without you spending a rupee !! The CSF or its partners will foot the bill !!!
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Bishops' greetings / speak:
Dear Mr. Joe Dias,
Thank you for your wonderful apostolate. I appreciate your latest venture. I was touched by the story you sent me. And thanks so much for your Christmas gift I received a few days back. Keep up your beautiful work. My prayer and warm regards,
- Bishop Ferdinand J. Fonseca
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Dear Joe,
Thank You for all you do to keep alive the challenging messages of Jesus. God bless you in this Holy Season and may your life and work in 2008 be blessed further by the Lord.
- Archbishop Dominic Jala, sdb, Shillong.
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Keep in touch ! Keep us in your prayers, even as we remember you, daily - as we pray. You may use any of the above email ids for prayer requests or testimonies.
Your Servant in the Lord's Service
Bro. Joe Dias
Founder, The CSF
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