A TROUBLING PORTENT OF THINGS TO COME: EXTREME REACTIONS IN INDIA TO THE UPCOMING OPENING OF THE DA VINCI CODE FILM:
A Roman Catholic organization in India has urged Christians to starve themselves to death to protest the release of "The Da Vinci Code" in movie theaters there, Agence France-Presse reported. Joseph Dias, the secretary general of the Catholic Secular Forum, who spoke of the "fast unto death" as a demonstration of "the extent that our feelings have been hurt," said that it is "a more Christian way of doing things rather than pulling down things and tearing them up."
The forum said that it hoped that thousands of people would turn out for a protest today in Mumbai to burn effigies of Dan Brown, the author of the best-selling novel that is the basis for the film, scheduled for international release on May 19. Yesterday about 100 people gathered in Mumbai to burn pages of the book, but the police stopped them from torching an effigy of Mr. Brown. About 2 percent of the 1.1 billion people in India are Christian.
A Roman Catholic organization in India has urged Christians to starve themselves to death to protest the release of "The Da Vinci Code" in movie theaters there, Agence France-Presse reported. Joseph Dias, the secretary general of the Catholic Secular Forum, who spoke of the "fast unto death" as a demonstration of "the extent that our feelings have been hurt," said that it is "a more Christian way of doing things rather than pulling down things and tearing them up."
The forum said that it hoped that thousands of people would turn out for a protest today in Mumbai to burn effigies of Dan Brown, the author of the best-selling novel that is the basis for the film, scheduled for international release on May 19. Yesterday about 100 people gathered in Mumbai to burn pages of the book, but the police stopped them from torching an effigy of Mr. Brown. About 2 percent of the 1.1 billion people in India are Christian.
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