Washington: October 2, 2008. Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations in North America (FIACONA) congratulates India and America on the approval the Indo-US nuclear deal. In August 2007, India and the United States reached a bilateral agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation as envisioned in the joint statement released by President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on July 18, 2005. The deal, which marks a notable warming of U.S.-India relations, lifts the U.S. moratorium on nuclear trade with India, provide U.S. assistance to India's civilian nuclear energy program, and expand U.S.-Indian cooperation in energy and satellite technology. President of FIACONA, Reverend Bernard Malik said, "It is a historic deal and both the countries shall profit by it. It is also recognition of India's emerging status as super power." FIACONA would like to express its profound anguish on the unabated and mindless violence in Orissa, India. Even on 1rst October three people were killed and 300 Christian houses set ablaze in Orissa. It appears that the state machinery as controlled by the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has collapsed completely, utterly, and absolutely. From top to bottom, there seems to be no work going on in the Orissa Government regarding the restoration of normalcy in Orissa. Is not a leader of the masses equivalent to a father of a household? How can a father sleep when his children are butchered? How can a leader remain calm when his followers are in trouble? How can Mr. Naveen Patnaik do nothing when Christians are harassed, humiliated, hounded, raped, mutilated, and murdered? It is not only a constitutional duty of a Chief Minister to protect its citizens but it is also a moral duty of Mr. Naveen Patnaik to see that the people who voted him to power are not wiped out of his state. Mr. Abraham Mammen, the National Vice President of FIACONA said, "He has failed to protect Christians and thus I do not think any Christian, in the whole world, would vote for Mr. Naveen Patnaik." Dr. Victor Joseph, Chairman of Government Relations of FIACONA said, "Mr. Patnaik should be indicted under law as he has grossly failed to uphold his constitutional duties." In spite of stern instructions from the Indian central government, the violence goes on without respite. Are the lives of Christians so worthless that they can be completely abandoned and left to the mercy of militant Hindu radicals allegedly the VHP combine? Is this secularism? Is this democracy? Is this freedom of religion? Is this humanity? Is this the India that won its freedom by non-violent means? Mr. Titus Mathew, General Secretary of FIACONA said, "Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh should be walk the talk, he has failed in his duties to protect the lives of minorities in the largest secular democracy of the world." FIACONA expresses its pleasure at the Indo-US nuclear deal, but is also extremely dismayed at the casual attitude of the governments both at the state and the central level regarding the continuing violence against Christians in Orissa. FIACONA demands that Mr. Naveen Patnaik should be indicted as per the law, for his repeated and continuous failure in adequate discharge of his constitutional duties, and Dr. Manmohan Singh should enforce central government intervention to stop the violence and lawlessness immediately.