Source: Rediff
KERALA, INDIA, July 8, 2002: The cross is continuing to be used physically by Christianity in Kerala in its centuries-old effort to seize more and more Hindu territories. Official Christian spokesperson Mathew Vadakkemuriyil publicly admitted that crosses have indeed been “set up” in forest lands in Kerala that select parishioners have occupied over the years. The admission came in the context of disclosures by land officials that the Christian encroachers could not produce titles to the precious forest tracts that they had annexed. Encroachers level the forest trees that have bred over uncountable years, sell the priceless timber and use the money to put up buildings and raise novel “cash crops.” The money is also invested to build chapels and churches. Hindu writer P.R.J. Pradeep wrote that thousands of acres of land had been plundered by Roman Catholic Christians in the State over the past years. A land department official confessed that officials were helpless in stopping the plunder. He added: “They choose government holidays and arrive for the strike with arms.”