Kerala nuns face excommunication for accusing bishop of rape
Kochi, Jan 29 (IBNS): Six Roman Catholic nuns at the St Francis Mission Home in Kuravilangad, 22 km from Kottayam, are facing excommunication after one of them had spoken out against alleged rape by a former Bishop of Jalandhar from 2014 to 2016, said reports.
The fault of the others is that they had stood behind the nun who had stood up against Franco Mulakkal, and by extension, the church.
Mulakkal had spent three weeks in jail last year before securing bail.
"Ever since the issue to came to our attention, we have petitioned church elders...Now the church is torturing us and trying to pick us apart one by one," Sister Anupama told The Times of India.
Five of the six nuns have been asked by the church to vacate their premises and serve in far-flung communities across the country.
The BGO Save Our Sisters has written to Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan seeking protecting for the six nuns.
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