A diocese in the southern Indian state of Kerala is out-raged after some miscreants broke into a chapel and dese-crated sacred Hosts kept inside a tabernacle.
While the diocese of Co-chin views the incident as part of hate activities spreading in Kerala, a senior Catholic journalist suspects the involvement of the satanic cult growing in the southern Indian state.
Father Johney Xavier Puthukkattu, the diocesan public relations officer, says the sacristan of St Jacob chapel in Arookutty found the tabernacle broke open on the morning of March 29 and informed the priest, who lives a nearby house.
After a search, they found the Hosts scattered in a marshy land, some 200 meters away. The chapel’s donation box was also found abandoned there.
The chapel is a substation of St Anthony’s Church Padu-vapura at Arookutty, 13 km southeast of Kochi, the commercial capital of Kerala.