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India: Catholics rally against ‘one village, one denomination law’
August 17, 2017
Catholics in a small village in India’s state of Manipur have rallied to protest local officials’ decision that a Catholic who once lived in the village cannot be buried there.
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Residents who lived in Leingangching village were drived out in 2010 after they converted to Catholicism. Their families insist that the country’s law establishes a right to burial.
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