Dear NYer and All,
I have read your message. I have never attended a "Syro - Malabar Liturgy" as I believe i have deep roots in my Catholic Christian Latin Rite Church and I love it there. Besides, In Bombay Syro Malabar parishes are few and far between and are extremely far from where I live.
I am posting some web links here for y'all's perusal. I love that word y'all having lived for 4 years in Georgia. I truly miss Georgia and Atlanta specially Onion Rings from "The Varsity" a great eating joint near downtown Atlanta.
Anyway, I won't digress anymore. These Links relate to the ongoing persecution of India's Catholics and Christians bu Radical Hindu Groups. They are quite recent.
Besides, there is an excellent resource on the web concerning persecution of India's Christians and the Coptic Christians of Egypt. It is www.persecution.org.
The links that relate to India are as follows-
1)http://www.persecution.org/newsite/newsdetail.php?newscode=1781 A Year of Violence against Catholics.
2)http://www.persecution.org/newsite/newsdetail.php?newscode=1778 Indian State introduces controversial Anti-Conversion Law.
3)http://www.persecution.org/newsite/countryinfodetail.php?countrycode=3 Updated Articles concerning Persecution of India’s Christians Both Catholic as well as Protestant.
In Jesus and Mary,
P.S.- My Family was a pioneer in the early 1990's and mid 1990's with regard to the promotion of the Devotion to the Divine Mercy in the Archdiocese of Bombay.
Unfortunately, we faced a lot of hostility and a negative atttitude from a large number of priests and religious who were not keen on supporting my family in this wonderful apostolate.
We have continued to promote it to virtually most parts of India as well as some countries in the Persian Gulf, Canada and Australia too. We used to receive tons of literature on the Divine Mercy Devotion from a Lay Catholic Evangelist of Chinese Descent who used to live in Hong Kong.
My family also played a significant role in helping a saintly discalced carmelite friar now deceased in setting up a Shrine to the Divine Mercy in Goa.