Re: Catholic schools down shutters in Indian city to protest at attacks by Hindu fanatics
Strange goings on at the Catholic convent, but condemnable behaviour by Hindu hot heads.
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**Lucknow’s Catholic schools down shutters to protest **
All convent schools in Lucknow downed their shutters on Monday to protest against Sunday’s attack on the city’s reputed Loreto Convent School. Father Paul Rodrigues, the Secretary of the Catholic Educational Institutions Association (CEIA) said that the city’s 20 Catholic schools would remain shut as a mark of solidarity to protest the vandalism resorted to by Shiv Sena and BJP youth wing activists. Shiv Sena and ABVP activists had earlier accused the school of carrying out forcible conversions and ransacked the premises on Sunday smashing flower pots, window panes and glass doors besides pelting stones on school faculty . The Uttar Pradesh Government has ordered a probe into the special occult session held on September 6, which was attended by around 250 girls, many of whom fainted at the end of the show out of fright. Some parents have lodged a complaint about the event. Along with the girls, about 12 staff members and the school principal witnessed the siance conducted by Nobo Kumar Mandal, a rickshaw-puller patronised by Father Sebastian Kuzhipala, a Catholic priest based in Murshidabad. Mandal acted as the medium for Christ, to bless and heal the children. Mandal fainted at the end of the session after grunting, growling and trying to induce Christ to enter his body. The girls were frightened at the sight and about a dozen of them too fainted. The Mother Superior of Loreto Convent, Sister Teresa, said that the holding of such sessions is quite common. The Principal, Sister Monica, said that the holy experience had frightened the girls. The children were exposed to the Chandra cult, which is promoted actively in Krishnagar, West Bengal. (ANI)
i studied in catholic missionary school in india,