Hindu extremists stop dead man’s cremation because he had wanted to become Christian...

Christians in Orissa continue to be discriminated. On Tuesday, a group of Hindu extremists from the Sangh Parivar prevented the cremation of Subarna Digal, an 83-year-old Dalit, in Milsikia (Barkhama), because he was Christian. They also forced his relatives to flee their village. News of the incident has raised concerns among Christians in Kandhamal District, the same who suffered during the 2008 anti-Christian pogrom that left hundreds dead.

“No villager should have been denied the last rites on any account. The dead man had expressed a ‘desire for baptism’ and was willing to accept the Christian faith on his own volition. The adversary group should have been sensitive to this, but unfortunately, they acted in an inhumane way, showing disrespect to the dead,” said Mgr Raphael Cheenath, archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar. More...

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