This will put the Church at odds with the national population policy and Family Planning program mandated by the government of India and could lead to persecution by the government itself.
Did they consider the population of the country btw? India's population is blowing up. I hope whoever supports this will also be open to allowing immigrants to their countries from India.
Kerala has had a very low birth rate by Indian standards esp for the Hindu & Christian communities for over 30 years,so this is not alarming by national standards.Besides,most members of the Syro-Malabar church are relatively well-off & can provide for more children than the poorer folk seen in central or Northern India.The problem that these folks are not addressing is the high rate of migration to the Persian Gulf,Europe & America over the past 30 years which has led to considerable fall in population.
I have to agree, at least halfway. With India poised to overtake China as Most Populous Country, asking people to have MORE childern strikes me as misguided.
This planet already holds over 6 BILLION people and we can see the problems only too well.
So true.
Besides, India doesn't need any more children, as the children there don't have enough....of everything.
I think this call for "more Catholics" is off the mark and not in the spirit of Christ. The call should be to be better Christians and help their fellow Indians with the children in need.