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The Sumanahalli Society will be left with only five acres for its ministry, which currently utilizes 50 buildings and works with 400 people who are otherwise outcasts from Indian society: lepers, HIV patients, disabled, orphans and street kids, and juvenile delinquents.
Archbishop of Bangalore Bernard Moras has opposed the government's decision, calling it "an infringement of the rights of the Christian minority community." Demonstrators protested the decision, but the state government did not change its original intent to seize the land.
Sumanahalli Society director George Kannanthanam said he did not think the decision was religiously motivated by Hindu nationalists.
Source: Christianity Today | Melissa Steffan
