CBCI says it is not hosting Modi event. Bishops divided over Modi?

The ongoing attacks, reconversion movement and the prime minister's failure to condemn such events have upset the Christian leadership.

 

New Delhi: 

The Catholics Bishop Conference of India (CBCI) has made clear that it is not part of national seminar in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the chief guest.

The seminar, ‘National Seminar of Religious Witnessing’, is scheduled for Tuesday in the capital to celebrate the canonization of Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Mother Euphrasia.

The CBCI is "not organizing or being consulted for this event," it spokesperson and deputy secretary general Father Joseph Chinnayan told the Indian Express.

"Whoever is participating is doing so in their individual capacity,” he said.

Archbishop Kuriakose Bharanikulangara of Delhi-Faridabad diocese of Syro-Malabar rite confirmed it.

“It is true they are not hosting this. They were involved in the beginning, but not now. I can assure you it is not because of picking the PM as the chief guest,” the Indian Express quoted him as saying.

The national capital witnessed a series of attacks on Christian churches since December, that latest being the attack on a school last week.

The ongoing attacks, reconversion movement and the prime minister's failure to condemn such events have upset the Christian leadership.

The bishops have demanded on several occasions Prime Minister's intervention and action against the attacks. But Modi is yet to respond to their requests.

Source: Indian express

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