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Article: India and the pope: Preachers and souls.(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 6, 1999
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Hinduism can coexist with Catholicism. Hindu nationalists may not want to
WHEN Pope John Paul arrives in Delhi on November 5th for his second visit to India, the country plans to be on its best behaviour. The recently re-elected government, led by the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), promises him "all courtesies and honours" due a head of state. It has muted protests by Hindu groups that object to Christian proselytising. Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi, where the pope is to say mass before some 50,000 people, is to be fitted out with a cross-shaped podium decorated with a painted diya, the earthenware lamp used at Diwali, a Hindu ...