Attack on churches and Prayer halls in Magalore

on 14 th september ,2008
inbetween 9.30 to 11 am Around 10 churches and Christian prayers halls were Sunday attacked in the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada by suspected Bajrang Dal activists, the police said. The attacks, damaging window panes and furniture, were to protest alleged conversion activities, officials said. Soon after the attacks Sunday, hundreds of Christians in Mangalore demonstrated in front of the churches and prayer halls, demanding arrest of the attackers. On Sunday too police used batons and teargas shells to disperse protesters and banned the assembly of five or more people in Mangalore city for three days. Around 10 people were injured in the clashes between Christian and Hindu groups. A few policemen were also hurt in the stone throwing, police said. The Hindu groups maintained they did not attack churches but only prayer halls run by some Christian groups whose main activity was, according to them, to convert Hindus. the attackers alleging that the churches were enticing Hindus to convert to Christianity.