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Indian Dalit Christians step up protests against non-Dalit archbishop
April 18, 2022
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CWN Editor's Note: Dalits were once more commonly known as “untouchables” (Encyclopaedia Britannica article). “60% of India’s 25 million Christians hail from the disadvantaged Dalit and tribal groups,” according to the report, but “only one among the 17 bishops in the Tamil Nadu-Pondicherry region (map) is a Dalit.”
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