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A Christian woman was brutally attacked and murdered at the St. Mary's Cathedral Church compound situated in the Cantonment area in Varanasi on January 1.

Women are more open to the spiritual and find it easier to entrust themselves to God. Men think more often that they need to be independent.

Christians have constantly informed the state administration and the general public that the law was "irrelevant and malicious" and primarily geared at alienating Christians from other religious minorities, the prelate added.

The church is also a place for healing and restoration. Both the offender and the victim can find healing and hope but not without a process in place. Rehabilitation of the offender needs to be a careful and highly monitored process. This should be done with great vigilance. The potential for repeat offenses should be weighed. Legal procedures must take its course.  

Monday’s attack started at 7:30 p.m. and continued for several hours. Witnesses say the terrorists stole seven vehicles and started shooting in the streets.

The more religious a man or woman may be, the more in danger he or she is to succumbing to the temptation to spiritual pride.

One of the most noteworthy trends concerns the “shocking reality of persecution against women…. In many places, they experience a ‘double persecution’— one for being a Christian and one for being a woman.

Come Sunday, these very priests will put on holy vestments and preach, their voices quivering with piety, on the duty to love; and love, as Jesus taught, even one’s enemies. They will condemn to hellfire those who don’t.

Asia Bibi, a mother of five from Punjab province, was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to hang after she was accused of defiling the name of the Prophet Muhammed during an argument the year before with Muslim colleagues.

This is not the first time Shetty is under fire for his comments. In March this year, he introduced the private member’s Bill in the Lok Sabha, seeking to raise the age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 if she is marrying without her parent’s consent.