A group of Catholic priests and nuns have decided to stand against any government policy that undermines the secular character of the country’s democracy. For this, they will stand united and like-minded to urge India to continue to treat its people of different races, cultures, religions and languages equally with secularism.
Around 60 women and men belonging to 31 religious congregations and working in 13 states met at Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand state, to review the current situation in the country and identify challenges to its secular, sovereign, socialist and democratic republic, from Feb 17 to Feb 19, 2018. As reported by mattersindia.com, the meeting ended with a “Declaration for justice and peace” that charted the group’s future course of action. The participants said the convention energized them to recommit themselves for safeguarding India’s secular democracy. People of our secular and democratic nation are shocked to observe the sudden shift to a rigid religious nationalism forced upon by the present regime.”
This religious group plan to conduct capacity building workshops for religious women and men in various parts of the country, especially on climate change and secularism that they said are burning issues.
Source: www.mattersindia.com
