It’s a pity that the Indian police have failed to arrest the three bikers who have vandalised the statue of ‘Our Lady of Vailankanni’ in the early hours of the morning in suburban Kurla on February 18, 2017, in spite of their motorcycle plate numbers being captured on CCTV.
This is not the first time the statue of Our Blessed Mother has been vandalised in Mumbai (India). In the past five years, in Mumbai alone, around 25 to 30 statues of Mother Mary, Jesus Christ or the saints have been vandalised by miscreants and the police have not arrested them because they are known to some politicians or some top leaders. Even consecrated hosts have been stolen from inside the church by breaking the tabernacle for devil worship in the middle of the night.
This time, we Christians will not keep quiet as we were keeping quiet all these years. We want justice and we demand that the culprits be arrested immediately no matter what political party they belong to. It’s a pity that Christians in India are treated like dogs, as if they have got no value.
Just because we Christians are God fearing people and do not take the law into our own hands, it does not mean that people of other faiths/communities should take advantage of that.
Jubel D’Cruz,
Mumbai, India
