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EDITORIAL: How can we, who are called by Jesus to love our neighbors, extend a helping hand to India and other developing world nations whose pandemic plight remains dire?
Speaking with the Register, Cardinal Oswald Gracias also expressed his sadness over the heavy death toll among Christian clergy, religious and laypeople.
The country has recorded more than 21 million cases of COVID-19 and over 230,000 deaths as of May 6.
The country is averaging about 3,500 deaths per day.
‘The country has been too complacent and relaxed for too long,’ Archbishop Prakash Mallavarapu told the Register.
But the recent harassment of four Catholic nuns traveling on a train in northern India has undermined the BJP’s electoral efforts to portray itself as sympathetic to Christian concerns.
Father Stanilaus Lourduswamy, along with 15 others, allegedly conspired with Maoist rebels to destabilize the federal government in what critics have called ‘absurd.’
“Chandrakanta Pradhan, a young soldier… always wore faith and love for the country. We salute him.”
With the death toll from the virus continuing to climb, Church leaders have authorized cremations even though the burial practice is viewed locally as a Hindu custom, not a Christian one.
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