Of course he wants to evangelize India. Widely known fact? I'd think it would be a universally known fact. It's required. It's a commandment of Jesus Christ.
Oh, to the contrary. He has a great deal of interest in --- let's not say "meddling" --- trying to influence Indias's affairs, especially as they touch upon religious liberty. There's 17 million Catholics in India, and all of them (like all Christians) are ALSO required to pray and work for the reign of God, the eternal well-being of souls, the spread of the Gospel and the baptism of all nations.
Many of us lack the whole-hearted and generous love which Christ calls for, but it is the mission of every Christian.
So the spread of the Gospel everywhere is precisely the Pope's business. What other business would he have?
Imam Syed Bukhari of Jama Masjidh (the imam of all Shia Muslims in India) has an agenda to make India a Muslim majority Islamic republic in another 50 years time (with the Islamic flag flying over Delhi). Imam Bukhari is at least an Indian .......the Pope is not. So by right at least the Imam has a say in India's affairs. The Pope has no such right. His statements are akin to a foreign head of the State directly meddling in India's affairs. He may believe its his divine right or whatever but for a sovereign nation like India his comments as a head of a Nation State is directly hostile and must be construed as such. India must snap all ties with the Vatican and withdraw its embassy and send all of Vatican's emissaries back home.
It maybe the Pope's business to spread Gospel everywhere but India's business is to maintain her secular character. We are under no obligation to follow the commandment of Jesus Christ.
Ah, but there's the difference. The Imam wants to make India an Islamic republic. His religion obliges him to do this, because it has been from the beginning, and is now, a political movement. He wants Muslims to rule all nations of the world under Shari'a law. However, the Pope has no territorial ambitions. If he did, he'd be sitting in his tiny (0.44 sq km) Vatican principality plotting the takeover of, say, the city of Rome: or, my God! Everything from St. Peter's to Castel Gandalfo!
You wrote: "He may believe its his divine right or whatever but for a sovereign nation like India his comments as a head of a Nation State is directly hostile and must be construed as such."
This is nonsense. The pope is alluding to a human right which is found in the Indian Constitution. If it is a casus belli for the pope to advocate freedom of speech, of religion, of press, of association which are already in the Indian Constitution, then India would be war war with its own stated principles. But it is not a casus belli. It is a reminder that Indian citizens have the right to adopt, practice, advance, propagate, retain or change their religious beliefs and affiliations.
This is no territorial claim on the part of the poppe and poses no threat to the Indian state.
If I were you, though, I'd keep my eye on that Imam Syed Bukhari.