{"id":99440,"date":"2015-03-14T17:12:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T17:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=99440"},"modified":"2015-03-14T17:12:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T17:12:14","slug":"74-year-old-indian-nun-gang-raped-in-convent-school-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=99440","title":{"rendered":"74-year-old Indian nun gang-raped in convent school attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Police in eastern India are searching for a group of six men who gang-raped an elderly nun in West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>The men ransacked the convent school in Ranaghat early on Saturday morning and stole money before entering the convent itself.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old nun is now recovering in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Christian groups have recently held protests in the Indian capital, Delhi, saying they are being targeted and demanding better protection.<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop of Calcutta, Thomas d&#8217;Souza, told the BBC that security cameras inside the Convent of Jesus and Mary School show the faces of the six men who carried out the assault.<\/p>\n<p>They first ransacked the school principal&#8217;s office and classrooms before entering the convent itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are only three Sisters in the community,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One sister was molested badly. The other two, and a guard, were tied to chairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/80797000\/jpg\/_80797059_80797058.jpg\" alt=\"A burnt crucifix stands at the altar of St. Sebastian&quot;s Church after a fire destroyed the church on Monday, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/>Several churches in Delhi have been attacked in recent months.<\/div>\n<p>The men also stole money from the school, he said, vandalised the chapel, broke open the tabernacle and took away the ciborium, the sacred vessel used during Mass.<\/p>\n<p>The school is well-known and has been open for 19 years, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, has condemned the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes at a time of growing concern about sexual violence against women and there has been increased media reporting of rapes and assaults.<\/p>\n<p>The background to this attack is not yet clear. But Christian groups elsewhere in India have expressed concern that they are increasingly being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlight a series of recent attacks by vandals on churches in Delhi and call on the authorities to do more to protect them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in eastern India are searching for a group of six men who gang-raped an elderly nun in West Bengal. The men ransacked the convent school in Ranaghat early on Saturday morning and stole money before entering the convent itself. The 74-year-old nun is now recovering in hospital. Christian groups have recently held protests in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":99441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-99440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}