[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Satanists battle Christians in northeastern state
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Satanists battle Christians in northeastern state
By Shaikh Azizur Rahman
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
September 18, 2006
CALCUTTA -- Satan-worshipping groups in the Christian-majority Indian state of
Mizoram are waging an anti-Christian campaign by burning Bibles, vandalizing
churches and defiling cemeteries.
One such group entered a church after midnight on July 24 and burned
Bibles, urinated on the pulpit and tore up pictures of the Virgin Mary and
Jesus.
"It appears they sacrificed an animal on the pulpit and splattered its
blood on the altar and chair of the worship leader," said the Rev. B.
Sangthanga, the head pastor of the church in the Kolasib district of the
northeastern Indian state.
"Last year, some young men of our village confessed to worshipping Satan.
Our investigation has found that the same group is behind this attack on the
church."
Mr. Sangthanga said the acts of vandalism "carry signatures of the Mizo
Satan followers. ... Now their attack on our church proves that the number of
Satanists is growing across the state with village youths joining them."
The villagers did not report the attack to the police, choosing instead to
pray for "God's intervention to help the misguided youths return to the right
path."
But other recent incidents have led to the arrests of young Satan
worshippers on charges of vandalism at religious places.
Most were briefly detained and released with a scolding. The youths -- most
in their late teens or early 20s -- tend to be high-school dropouts and often
are drug users, a police investigation found.
One study found there were as many as 95 Satan-worshipping groups in
Mizoram. More than 50 cases have been reported in which the groups vandalized
churches, burned Bibles or defiled cemeteries.
Some of them conduct midnight gatherings at isolated cemeteries, where they
are reported to dance naked, slash their wrists in ritual blood offerings and
chant invocations to Satan. They sometimes write graffiti in their blood,
leaving messages such as "dog si nataS" -- the reverse of "Satan is god."
Mizoram church leaders blame high unemployment and "bad Western influences"
for the growth of the groups.
"When, three years ago, a girl-only [satanic group] was caught by village
elders while performing some bizarre rituals, the girls, who were all
high-school dropouts, admitted that [they had been] influenced by the Hollywood
movie 'The Craft,'" said a church leader in the Aizawl district.
"Lots of graduates and postgraduates are jobless in this state, and so,
many younger students are getting disenchanted with their studies. Many such
young [Christian] people are turning away from the church, taking drugs and
sometimes following this Satan's path out of despair."
Muana, a 25-year-old former Satan worshipper who uses only one name, said
young people were joining the groups out of frustration over the tens of
thousands of highly educated people who are jobless.
"Most members of our [group] were intravenous drug users. We wanted to
rebel against the society, and so we targeted the Church," said Muana, who is
at a drug detoxification center in the neighboring state of Manipur.
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