Weird: Christian Elephants avenging religious persecutions in India?

This is a terribly strange story.

The Archdiocese of Colombo website has a story posted on their website entitled "ELEPHANTS ATTACK IN ORISSA - EXACTLY AFTER ONE YEAR OF PERSECUTIONS ."

The blog is maintained by one Fr. Sunil De Silva, who seems to be convinced that recent elephant attacks on non-Christians on Orissa, India is retribution for the anti-Christian attacks which plagued the same region last year.

This claim - published on the official website of a Catholic Archdiocesan website, raises some issues:

1. Who authorized posting this story as "news"?
2. Is it really a Christian sentiment to hope that our persecutors are being savaged by wild animals?
3. Is there any corroborating evidence to confirm that, as claimed, Elephants are rampaging villages?

One more thing - I'm very concerned that mainstream reporters will pick up on this story and claim that Christians are "gloating" about the misfortunes of non-Christians. That won't help settle things in the region in the least.