Indian Government Offers Hope for Dalits: CEN 6.08.07 p 6. June 7, 2007
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| AN INDIAN government commission has found that Christian Dalits (formerly known as Untouchables) continue to suffer from caste-based discrimination, and has urged the government to grant Christians the same legal rights as Hindu Dalits.
Christians in India have welcomed the commission’s findings and have called upon the government to an end a campaign of anti-Christian violence waged by Hindu extremists sparked by the report. Speaking to a rally on May 29 in front of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, the Bishop of Delhi Karim Masih (pictured) urged Christians to set aside denominational divisions to work toward full civil rights. “Today I don’t come as a CNI leader. I come as a Christian. All denominations should unite until all the anti-Christian atrocities stop,” he said. |
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