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As in other parts of the world, Christmas is the most important festival for Indian Christians. Anglo-Indian Christmas balls held in most major cities form a distinctive part of Indian Christian culture. [196] Great Friday is a national holiday, All Souls Day is another holiday that is observed by most Christians in India. [197]
Lal Behari Dey - Indian journalist, writer, and Christian missionary; Ravi Zacharias - Christian apologist, Founder and chairman of the board of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. D. G. S. Dhinakaran - Christian evangelist. Valerian Gracias - First cardinal from India.
The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians of India, Marthoma Suriyani Nasrani, Malankara Nasrani, or Nasrani Mappila, are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians in the state of Kerala (Malabar region), [8] who, for the most part, employ the Eastern and Western liturgical rites of Syriac Christianity. [9]
Indian Christian theologians (2 C, 138 P) W. Indian Christian writers (13 P) Pages in category "Indian Christians" The following 200 pages are in this category, out ...
The Church of the East was the earliest form of Christianity in India, as adopted by the St Thomas Christians of the Malabar region (present-day Kerala) from at least the third century, and possibly much earlier.
In 2001, the All India Christian Council reported that Indian Christians are attacked every 36 hours. [15] Multiple news organizations reported an increase in the number of incidents of violence against Christians after the new BJP government under Narendra Modi came to power after the general election in April–May 2014.
Punjabi Christians are traditionally divided into various castes, [5] and are largely descendants of Hindus who converted to Christianity during the British Raj in colonial India. [6] Today, the Punjabi Christians reside in the Punjab region, which includes the countries of Pakistan and India; they are almost equally divided between Catholicism ...
According to apocryphal records, Christianity in India and in Pakistan (included prior to the Partition) commenced in 52 AD, [1] with the arrival of Thomas the Apostle in Cranganore (Kodungaloor). Subsequently, the Christians of the Malabar region, known as St Thomas Christians established close ties with the Levantine Christians of the Near East.