Indian Court Grants Bail To Nuns Charged With Forcible Conversion

Spero News reported yesterday that in the Indian state of Orissa, a court has released two Catholic nuns on bail two days after they were arrested on charges of forcefully converting two girls, aged 14 and 11. Sisters Prema Thomas, 62, and Mary Sebastian, 52, work in a Church-run hostel that houses 80 girls from local villages. Father Isaac Puthenangady, chancellor of Balasore diocese that has operated the hostel for 30 years, says that the girls filing the complaints were sent by fanatic anti-Christian Hindu elements "to corner the missioners".