Thursday, April 25, 2024

John Dayal

John Dayal is a veteran human rights and Christian political activist. He is a member of the National Integration Council of India, Secretary-General of the All India Christian Council, and was president of the All India Catholic Union.

Indian Church loses friends and makes new enemies

Church leaders find themselves rapidly losing allies, even as they make new enemies, and widen the many internal fractures of dogma, doctrine, racialism, and caste.

Kandhamal violence seared in memory of India’s Christians

Feb. 24, 1784, was the day the Christian community in India shed its innocence, discovering its vulnerability in a land where social, religious and other identity groups jostled for power, some with notional or virtual alliances, others with armed gangs patronized by the rulers, and still others at the head of real armies.
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