My understanding is that both Orthodox and Roman Catholic "groups" have thought it necessary to absorb Thomas' church, and this causes a lot of distress to the RC's in Goa which was formerly a Portuguese colony/trading port.
There are a lot of sites on the net that give you all sides of this "Shivaesque debate".
Still, in this particular event I fail to see the Hindu element. No one did burnt sacrifice, and there was no sharing and shaking of the wheat chaf screen for example.
No one rolled out a linga and poured milk on it either.
What we have is some small group of people who are of the impression that "dancing" in a Christian service is either hareem (forbidden), or so unusual as to quite possibly not be Christian at all!!
Oh, yeah, and the Indian ladies wore silk saris.
Oh, my Heavens~!!
Of course in numerous socities around the world it is common to wear your best clothes to church ~ that old "First Fruits" doctrine at work ~ kind of Jewish, but Christians can do that stuff too.
If its not biblical, its not Christianity, they need to get a new name for it.
I really, really need to stay off the Catholic threads lol