India: Cardinal for Dialogue with Hindus
The President of the Indian Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, has called for interfaith dialogue. Religions, said the Cardinal, have much that unites them. "We can decide how to deploy our forces: to unite or to separate. We must together build India. "Since Christmas, Christians in the state of Orissa have been persecuted by militant Hindus. Behind the violence are suspected political motives. An end to persecution is not currently in sight.
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