Daijiworld Media Network - Thrissur

Thrissur, Nov 6: Christianity is an integral part of India’s heritage and not a foreign faith, declared Archbishop Mar Andrews Thazhath, head of the Thrissur Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, on Thursday. He cautioned that continued marginalisation of Christians could lead to large-scale protests and renewed political mobilisation in Kerala.

“In North India, the Christian Church is being falsely portrayed as foreign. But Christianity has existed in India for over 2,000 years. It is inherently Indian, not alien,” the Archbishop said.

Tracing the faith’s origins, he recalled that St. Thomas, one of Jesus Christ’s twelve apostles, arrived in Kerala around 52 CE, establishing some of the world’s earliest Christian communities. The apostle

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