Indian churches say they can't get access to Orissa violence victims

National church bodies in India have demanded access to the troubled Kandhamal region of Orissa state to distribute relief and visit the families affected by a recent outbreak of violence said to be aimed at Christians, reports Ecumenical News International. "We are established and credible national bodies and have every right to violence," Church of North India Bishop Dinesh Kumar Sahu, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in India, told journalists in Bhubaneswar, the Orissa capital.

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