Murdered Catholic Priest's Body Found on Roadside in India

By Joseph Keenan
CP South and Southeast Asia Correspondent
Thu, Jul. 30 2009

A Catholic priest was found murdered in a remote place on the side of a road in a village near Mangalore in the southern Indian state of Karnataka on Thursday. Law Sought to Ban Conversions in One More Indian State

A Christian advocacy group is calling on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate the "clear case of murder."

Father James Mukalel, 39, priest of the Belthangady diocese in Karnataka, was killed when he was returning to his parish, after attending the funeral of one of his earlier parishioners in Thottathady village, Daiji World local online news reported. the rest