“There is a need to better inform and engage the Catholic audience. There is an obligation to keep the spotlight on the topic and showcase the seriousness and pervasiveness of Christian persecution around the world.”
Far more “humiliating,” to use the pope’s language, is the fact that, on a list of priorities for the church ranked by importance, the Catholics questioned put the persecution of Christians as their “last” priority of the issues they were most concerned about — below poverty and global warming.
According to Hindutva, the ideology of Indian nationalists determined to make their nation exclusively Hindu, holds that every Indian is in some sense a Hindu even if he is Muslim or Christian.
“We feel that this Christmas is a very special Christmas for us after three years of being displaced from our villages."
As one illustration of the ardors, Kemboi said he has to change the shock absorbers on his Toyota Hilux SUV every two weeks. The vehicle was purchased for the diocese through a grant from Aid to the Church in Need, which also pays for the meager Mass stipend Kemboi and his fellow priests receive.