{"id":29289,"date":"2018-06-19T08:02:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=29289"},"modified":"2018-06-19T08:32:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:32:54","slug":"india-bishops-appeal-for-true-nationalism-and-dialogue-between-different-religions-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/06\/19\/india-bishops-appeal-for-true-nationalism-and-dialogue-between-different-religions-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"INDIA:  Bishops appeal for &#8216;true nationalism&#8217; and  dialogue between different religions &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>INDIA<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bishops appeal for &#8216;true nationalism&#8217; and dialogue between different religions<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8216;Dialogue with followers of other religions and with ecumenical groups is the need of the hour&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">India\u2019s bishops have issued a statement appealing for \u201ctrue nationalism\u201d in order to bring \u201cgenuine peace, harmony, progress and prosperity\u201d.\u00a0 Referring to the current climate of violence, the bishops appealed to their fellow countrymen &#8220;to shun mob culture and vigilantism in favour of peace.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Militant Hindu groups have stepped up violence against minorities since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power four years ago. Indian government data showed that 111 people were killed in sectarian violence in 2017, compared to 86 in 2016 and that there were 822 recorded incidents of violence in 2017 compared to 703 in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some hard-line Hindu groups portray Christians and Muslims as being loyal to foreign powers. Some Hindu leaders have even publicly called for Muslims to leave India and settle in majority-Islamic nations and for Catholics to move to Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;No one should doubt our loyalty or our commitment to the nation,\u201d the bishops wrote, stating that Christianity in India is as old as the Christian faith itself. They urged all Indians, \u201cto resolve to go beyond narrow domestic walls of every kind\u201d in order to establish a truly secular, socialist and democratic nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The bishops stressed the importance of peace talks. \u201cDialogue with followers of other religions and with ecumenical groups is the need of the hour,\u201d they said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Auxiliary Bishop of Ranchi and\u00a0 secretary-general of the Catholic Bishops&#8217; Conference of India, Theodore Mascarenhas, said attacks on pluralism were &#8220;not only against Christians but all Indians.&#8221; &#8220;You cannot allow a few rabid elements to spoil the harmony. It is a question of upholding constitutional values and rule of law,&#8221; Mascarenhas added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The newly elected president of the Catholic Bishops&#8217; Conference of India, Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, admitted that\u00a0 \u201cintolerance is causing a certain amount of anxiety to us.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He warned: &#8220;Diversity is one of the strengths of India. It is known the world over for its diversity of culture, language and religion. Any attempt to divide people by certain sections will be harmful for the nation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIA Bishops appeal for &#8216;true nationalism&#8217; and dialogue between different religions &nbsp; &#8216;Dialogue with followers of other religions and with ecumenical groups is the need of the hour&#8217; India\u2019s bishops have issued a statement appealing for \u201ctrue nationalism\u201d in order to bring \u201cgenuine peace, harmony, progress and prosperity\u201d.\u00a0 Referring to the current climate of violence,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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