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India: priest faces charges for denying Hindu ‘god’
August 09, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: A Catholic priest in Goa is facing criminal charges for “hurting Hindu sentiments” after being quoted as saying that the 17th-century Hindu king Chatrapati Shivaji “was a national hero but not a god.”
The remark by Father Bolmax Pereira, made during a homily, brought out Hindu nationalists to demonstrate outside the local station demanding his arrest.
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