Robbers attack, rob convents and nuns in India's Bihar state

Published: 2005-06-13

RAXAUL, India (CNS) -- An Indian nun was hospitalized with serious head wounds after robbers attacked a convent in an eastern Indian town. A dozen men broke into the convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame early June 10 in Raxaul, a town in Bihar state in the Bettiah Diocese, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. Five days earlier, robbers looted a Sisters of Charity of Nazareth convent in Sokho, 170 miles southeast of Raxaul, in the Bhagalpur Diocese. Both congregations are based in the United States, but all the nuns living in both convents are Indian. According to the nuns in Raxaul, robbers broke open the front door with a boulder and forced their way into a room, attacking 67-year-old Sister Manjula with a thorny tree branch.

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