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Priest murdered in India
AFP, VATICAN CITY, July 30, 2009
A priest was killed on Wednesday in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, where Christians have been targeted in violent attacks, according to the Vatican-based news agency Asianews. The body ofJames Mukalel, 39, was found on Thursday morning on a road leading to his parish in the diocese of Belthangady. According to initial investigations, he was killed while returning to his parish after having conducted a funeral in a neighbouring village.
The bishop of the diocese, Lawrence Mukkuzhy, did not put forward any theories as to the motive for the killing, but ruled out a straightforward criminal act. Another diocesan official Tomy Mattom said it looked like an “execution”. He said the body had no obvious wounds and initial information led him to believe the priest had been strangled. An autopsy must be carried out soon to determine the cause of death.
Indian Christian groups have called for an inquiry into the killing and other attacks on Christians in the region, Asianews said. Twenty churches and chapels have been destroyed in the past year in Karnataka. In the eastern state of Orissa last year, thousands of Christians were forced to flee after Hindu mobs burned their houses, churches, orphanages and schools. At least 35 peoplewere killed in the attacks. —AFP
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CHRISTIANS DISPUTE POLICE THEORY ON PRIEST’S DEATH
Hindu extremists suspected in area known for anti-Christian violence.
NEW DELHI, August 3, 2009 (Compass Direct News) –
The suspicious death of a 39-year-old priest in the southern state of Karnataka has further terrified Christians living in an area known for anti-Christian violence, but police indicate that they doubt it is a homicide. The body of the parish priest of St. Mary’s Church, the Rev. James Mukalel, was found lying near his motorbike in Belthangady sub-district near Mangalore early last Thursday (July 30).
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) maintains that Mukalel, from Belthangady’s Syro-Malabar diocese in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district, was killed. Officials at the CBCI said the death of the priest appeared to be suspicious and unnatural, as his body was found nearly naked lying on a remote roadside near the motorbike he had been riding.
Superintendent of Police of Dakshina Kannada district Subramayeshwar Rao told Compass that police had only two theories on the cause of death. “Although I have not seen the autopsy report, I learned from the forensic surgeons that Fr. James Mukalel died of poisoning – most likely naturally because of food poisoning, or he was poisoned.”
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Postmortem report to take a week
TNN 31 July 2009
Police are awaiting the postmortem report to ascertain the cause of death of James Mukalel (38), parish priest of St Mary's Church, Kutrapady in the diocese of Belthangady. Fr James was found dead in what police said are "suspicious circumstances" on Wednesday. Fr James after attending a funeral was returning around 9.30 pm to St Mary's Church.
SP A S Rao said the post-mortem report would take at least a week. "All our field inquiries have been kept pending until such time and they will take shape once we know the cause of death," Rao said. The police have registered a case of suspicious unnatural death under Section 174 C of Cr.PC.
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