Card Gracias: Victims of 2008 Kandhamal riot are ‘Martryrs’
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| Cardinal Oswald Gracias. |
Cardinal Oswald Gracias speaks about the Martyrs of
Kandhamal, in Odisha state of India.
By C Coutinho
The violence that lasted for nearly four months in 2008
against Christians in Kandhamal District of Odishastate
resulted in the loss of 100 lives and left more than 56,000
people homeless.
The survivors are facing continual denial of justice to
them in the numerous cases pending before the law courts. But the Archdiocese
of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, to which the victims belonged to, is preparing to
initiate the sainthood cause of those killed.
In his December 3 appointment letter, Archbishop
John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar has appointed Father Purushottam
Nayak to document and prepare dossier containing documents of the
Catholics killed during this violence.
Fr. Nayak, from Jan. 1 will document the
life and virtues of the martyrs before the start of the diocesan process.
Fr. Nayak is the archbishop’s personal secretary and deputy secretary
(in-charge) of Odisha Bishops Regional Council.
Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Mumbai and
president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), spoke
to Vatican News during his last visit to Rome about the Martyrs of
Kandhamal. Cardinal Gracias who has met and listened to the people who
suffered is convinced that the people who died are martyrs. He is all support
to Archbishop Barwa and says that we need to be sensitive to our people
who have suffered.
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