Hindu extremist angers Christians in Goa
October 07, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Catholic leaders in the Indian state of Goa have called for calm after a Hindu extremist prompted outrage by suggesting a DNA test on the relics of St. Francis Xavier.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, whose organization has been expelled from the ruling Hindu-nationalist BJP party, made the provocative suggestion as part of a campaign to replace St. Francis Xavier as Goa’s patron with Parshuram, a warrior of Hindu myth.
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