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	Chris.html
		Christianity was thought of as "the religion of the poor" (Kooliman 102).
		Christians and churches relate to surrounding society in vastly differing ways, from being a dominant force in Kerala, a significant influence in other southern and northeastern states, to a desperately weak minority in the main body of India (Europa 1740).
		In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V.S. ariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Chris.html (1130 words)

	Christianity in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The total number of Christians in India according to the 1991 census was 19.6 million (1.96 crores), or 2.3 percent of the population.
		The largest Protestant denomination in the country is the Church of South India, since 1947 a union of Presbyterian, Reformed, Congregational, Methodist, and Anglican congregations with approximately 2.2 million (22 lakh) members as of 1995.
		Today Christians are most prevalent in the northeast (of which few states such as Nagaland are demanding a separate Christian nation : 'Nagaland for Christ'), and in western states such as Kerala and Goa where the percentage of Christian population is high.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christianity_in_India (827 words)

	Christianity,Christian Religion,Christianity in India,BChristian Religion in India
		By tradition, Christianity is said to have arrived in South India with the arrival of St. Thomas, one of the apostles of Jesus Christ, at the Malabar Coast in 52 AD.
		Christians from many countries came as missionaries and in 50 years the faith was rooted in large parts of India.
		Christianity was spread in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries under the auspices of the Society of Jesus.
	www.culturopedia.com /Religions/christianityindia.html (961 words)

	Christianity in India: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Christianity is an abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of jesus of nazareth as described in the...
		Malabar is a region of southern india, lying between the western ghats and the arabian sea, and comprising the northern half of the state of kerala....
		The church of north india is the dominant protestant denomination in northern india....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/christianity_in_india.htm (2216 words)

	Christianity - Hindu Customs in the Christian Community in India (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In talking of Christianity one generally loses sight of the fact that it was born in Asia and thus to begin with it is an oriental religion.
		Christians still privately continue to refer to themselves by their caste affiliations like Prabhoos, Bamons, Kolis, Bhandaris, etc. and caste considerations are rarely absent during matchmaking especially among Christians in rural areas.
		The cultural tensions involving the Christian community derive from a widespread feeling in India that Christianity is a Western Religion which was brought into this country as a result of colonial rule and is today a living relic of our colonial past.
	www.hindubooks.org /sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/christianity.html (3576 words)

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		India’s neighbors to the north are the Chinese: Tibetan region, Nepal and Bhutan.
		India is flanked by Burma (Myanmar) on the eastern border.
		Christianity in Kerala is as old as Christianity itself, and it is the cradle of Christianity in India.
	www.indianchristianity.org /india.html (13993 words)

	Christianity in India (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Christianity came to India in two main periods: the first century missionary activity of Thomas, the disciple of Jesus, and the Western missionary activity from 1500 to 1975.
		India, which is 83 percent Hindu, is a country of minorities, with 180 million Muslims, 70 million tribal people, 60 million Sikhs and uncounted millions of others.
		However, Christians are not in significant numbers to be catered to by the national politicians.
	old.mbconf.ca /mb/mbh3509/christin.htm (685 words)

	Season India :: Origin of Christianity -
		By tradition, Christianity is said to have arrived in India with Saint Thomas, one of the apostles of Jesus Christ, who spent some years in South India and possibly died there.
		Christian missionaries helped in setting up schools and colleges all over India and also spread the message of faith and goodwill in the country.
		Christianity and its teachings influenced a number of intellectuals and thinkers in India, including Mahatma Gandhi.
	www.seasonsindia.com /art_culture/reli_christianity_sea.htm (188 words)

	A Retrospect Christianity In India - Chapter 4 - Happy Gestures (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Early in the twentieth century Joseph Baptista, a prominent Christian leader in Bombay said, "I thoroughly disapprove of separate electorate for Indian Christians in water-tight compartments".
		Bishop Azariah another leading Christian, opposed communal representation and in 1928 he issued an appeal recommending the abolition of all forms of communal representation.
		Christianity in India was mixed up with the British rule and to some extent with the rule of the Portguese.
	www.hindubooks.org /Retrospect_of_Christianity/ch4.htm (201 words)

	India's Malabar Christianity 1950 YEARS OLD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These lagoons were the first settlement of the Portuguese when they re-discovered India and established themselves almost simultaneously at Cochin near one passage into the backwater and near Cranganore at Palliport, where the well-preserved remains of their small three-storied octagonal castle built in 1507 A.D. are still to be seen.
		It is one of the smallest states of India with an area of 37940 square kilometers (14820 square miles).
		Thomas, Christians and Christianity in India and Pakistan, George Allen and Unwin, London 1954, pp.
	thinkers.net /writer/muziris.html (6227 words)

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		India was in a flourishing stage during that period.
		Kodungallur -The Cradle of Christianity in india: The growth of Christianity in Kerala along the sea-coast and its geographical dispersion indicate the importance of Kodungallur in the spread of the gospel message in Kerala and India.
		The Christians of India was under the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Edessa during the period, which made things easier.
	www.indianchristianity.org /thomas.html (11860 words)

	An article on Christianity in India (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Christianity in India is progressively partaking of Indian beliefs and customs, even meditation systems.
		Siddhartha, a Buddhist, was born a Syrian Christian.
		Says he: "Christianity is scared of losing itself if it gets into a close dialogue with Hinduism and Buddhism." The externalization of faith makes Christians unable to plumb into the living center of all religions, where alone lies synthesis.
	www.lifepositive.com /Spirit/world-religions/christianity/belief.asp (2950 words)

	Christianity in India
		Some scholars believe that Jesus was in India for the 17 years of his life that are unaccounted for in the Bible, when he was between the ages of 12 and 29.
		Syrian Christians make up the oldest Christian community in the country, believed to have permanently settled in India as early as 190 A.D. The Catholics were the next largest immigrant group, arriving mostly from Portugal in the 14th to 16th centuries.
		Syrian Christians faced intolerance from the Catholics and a number of their churches were destroyed, although some churches from that time period still remain.
	www.indiausa-sc.org /ch.htm (476 words)

	Christianity in India
		The Christian women dressed similarly, but they wore the pudava, covering from the hip to the ankle with pleats at their back and ‘mady’ in the front, covering the buttocks and abdomen.
		The Christian men wore their traditional dress of Kasavu mundu covering from hip to ankle and a kavani on the shoulder and a thulasi-mala with a golden cross as pendent.
		The social and political leader of these Christians, however, was the Archdeacon George of all India, an Indian priest whose office was said to be ‘inherited’ since he appointed his relations to succeed him with the same name George.
	www.angelfire.com /ky/ScarlettOHara/kerala.html (2166 words)

	Christianity in India
		Christianity arrived in India almost about the same period as it arrived in Europe, meaning about 2000 years ago.
		The first Christians were Jews and in the beginning Christianity was seen as a Jewish cult.
		The major centers of Christianity in India are Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Manipur and Mizoram.
	adaniel.tripod.com /Christianity.htm (582 words)

	Interesting facts about Christianity in India - Christian History
		Tamil Nadu is the supposed burial place of the Apostle Thomas and is associated with a number of famous Christian leaders including the Irish missionary Amy Carmichael, the historian Stephen Neill, the theologian Lesslie Newbigin, and the popular apologist Ravi Zacharias.
		Although Christians officially comprise only 2.4 percent of the Indian population (census figures that are likely underestimated), Christian schools, colleges, hospitals and printing presses have extended Christianity's impact into vast areas of resiliently non-Christian Hindu and Muslim society.
		There he praised the noble and rich spiritual heritage of India and persuaded his audience to recognize and elevate "Hinduism" into the rank of a "world religion." His mission to plant exotic notions of an exalted "Hindu" spirituality in the minds of Westerners remains active today in countless Vedanta Societies.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ch/2005/003/2.02.html (1267 words)

	Christianity In India - Hiduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, India, Zoroastrianism
		The first Christians in India, according to tradition and legend, were converted by Saint Thomas the Apostle, who arrived on the Malabar Coast of India in A.D. After evangelizing and performing miracles in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, he is believed to have been martyred in Madras and buried on the site of San Thomé Cathedral.
		The total number of Christians in India according to the 1991 census was 19.6 million, or 2.3 percent of the population.
		Christianity offers a non-Hindu mode of acculturation during a period when the state and modern economy have been radically transforming the life-styles of the hill peoples.
	www.photius.com /religion/india_christianity.html (665 words)

	INDIAN MIRROR - Christianity - Religions of India
		Today's Syrian Christians in Kerala claim to have been converted by St. Thomas and thus to follow the earliest traditions of the Apostolic Church in India.
		The Syrian Christians said their prayers in Cyriac, not Latin, and Kerala's later converts came to be called as Latin Christians.
		The Christians in India are organized into local communities, regional bodies like diocese, union councils and national ones like synod national federation.
	www.indianmirror.com /religions/reli6.html (720 words)

	India Books and Music - Christianity in India (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The faith that took root was strongly influenced by local organizations and cultures; thus the Christians in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Goa are almost as different from each other as they are from their Hindu and Muslim counterparts, the tribal Christians of central and north-eastern India, and Dalit Christians all over the country.
		Written by two of the country’s foremost theologians, Christianity in India traces the fascinating history of each of these communities, and descries the role of Christians in education, social services, multilingual publishing and the freedom struggle.
		The first of its kind for the general reader, Christianity in India is a priceless compendium of history, theology, folklore and anecdote, to be relished and referenced by anyone curious about the Indian story and practice of one of the world’s major faiths.
	www.indiaclub.com /html/14182.htm (260 words)

	A Retrospect: Christianity in India
		Christianity in India was mixed up With the British rule and to some extent with the rule of the Portuguese.
		The Christians of India are converts or descendants of converts whose conversion had been secured during some period of history by force or fraud; conversion by persuasion is a rarity.
		Christianity in India today is losing its identity as a religion and acquiring the identity of an imperialist ideology.
	hvk.org /Publications/cihp/ap2.html (8418 words)

	Christianity in India at a glance
		Churches in India are brought under the rule of Latin bishops under the patronage of the King of Portugal.
		This delegation requests a Syrian bishop for the St. Thomas Christians and seeks to explore ways to reconcile the differences between Jacobites and Catholics amongst the St. Thomas Christians.
		Christianity in India at a Glance was distributed during the 2000 Indian Catholic Youth Conference in Ft.
	www.indiacatholic.com /glance.htm (312 words)

	Christianity in India
		In 345 there was a persecution of Persian Christians by the Zoroastrian leadership and many fled to the Malabar coast, where they prospered as traders.
		Later, after the rise of Islam, more Christians fled east to India where they were often given land by local rulers (usually demarcated by the traditional method of allowing a female elephant to roam free).
		Christian church building are often destroyed on the spurious grounds that they stand on the land of some Hindu temple.
	academics.smcvt.edu /jbyrne/christianity_in_india.htm (1775 words)

	Christianity,Christianity Religion in India,Religion Christianity,History of Christianity,Christianity In India
		Christianity religion is equally respected by the people of all faith in India.
		It is believed by many that Christianity came to India with Saint Thomas, one of the Apostles of Jesus Christ, who spent a few years near Chennai (or Madras in Tamil Nadu) and eventually died there
		Parsis are the descendants of Persians who fled to India after the Arab conquest of Iran in the eighth century.
	www.indiasite.com /religion/christianity.html (252 words)

	Merging Currents, Inc.: Books on Christianity in India, Hinduism and Indian culture and history: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is estimated that 65% of India's Christians are from "outcaste" backgrounds, although leadership in the churches remains strongly with Syrian, Anglo-Indian and higher caste background Christians.
		Indian Christianity is an international leader in the quest for contextual theology and in the practice and theology of interreligious dialogue.
		Christians and churches relate to surrounding society in vastly differing ways, from being a dominant force in Kerala, Goa and northeast India, to a significant influence in other southern and northeastern states, to a desperately weak minority in the main body of India.
	www.mergingcurrents.com /article.php (895 words)

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		India is home to many shrines of the world's major religions.
		This is a land of temples, the devout where new wonders await the profusion of orange flowers.
		The land of the Buddha, India bridges the material world to the spiritual.
	www.indiapackages.com (400 words)

	India & Christianity
		In Rajasthan (north-west India) the ruling BJP is moving to introduce laws to outlaw conversions to Christianity.
		Congress is aiming to use the march to consolidate secular forces, counter the divisive politics and legacy of the BJP, re-ignite a passion for true Indian unity, reclaim Mahatama Gandhi's legacy of socio-religious tolerance and peace, and deal a blow to the Hindu nationalists.
		Christian schools are popular in India because of their reputation for high academic standards, and local parents had helped build St Jude's.
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /india_&_christianity.htm (4836 words)

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