More than a hundred Hindu activists forcefully entered a Catholic school in India’s Chhattisgarh state to oppose a summer catechetical camp held there for Catholic children.
The intruders, who entered the Vishwadeep School campus about noon on May 7, alleged the program was meant to convert “Hindu” children.
On information, police and government officials rushed to the school and pacified the activists, after verifying from the organizers that all the children were Catholics and only some moral lessons were imparted to them.
As many as 197 boys and girls, studying in 8-12 grades, had come to the camp from seven parishes.
The archdiocese conducts the annual summer catechetical camps or retreats for Catholic children to supplement Sunday catechism classes.
The intruders, belonging to various Hindu organizations, claimed a list showed names of Hindu children. They demanded to know whether the organizers had written permission from the government to conduct the religious program and from the parents for their children to attend it.
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