Indian cardinal assesses Hindu fundamentalist persecution

Catholic Culture: “An Indian cardinal believes that Hindu fundamentalists– whom he estimates at 11% of the nation’s population– persecute Christians because they fear the prospects of a mass conversion to Christianity among dalits (untouchables). ‘In the eyes of the fundamentalists, the Muslims are also enemies of India, but Muslims retaliate so they are leaving them alone. The Christians they see as a threat they can eliminate . . . ‘”