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The first converts to Christianity in Goa were native Goan women who married Portuguese men that arrived with Afonso de Albuquerque during the Portuguese conquest of Goa in 1510. [6] Christian maidens of Goa meeting a Portuguese nobleman seeking a wife, from the Códice Casanatense (c. 1540)
Christianity is the second largest religious grouping of residents in Goa, India. According to the 2011 census, 25% of the resident population are Christian , while 66% are Hindu . [ 6 ] [ 7 ]
The Novas Conquistas, which came under Portuguese rule later, remained majority Hindu. Goan emigration to British India and the rest of the world, and corresponding immigration of non-Goan labour from India to work in mines in 1950s [2] led to Hindus eventually becoming the majority of people residing in Goa by the 1960 census carried out by ...
A 1999 Human Rights Watch report states increasing levels of religious violence on Christians in India, perpetrated by Hindu organizations. [ 135 ] [ 136 ] In 2000, acts of religious violence against Christians included forcible reconversion of converted Christians to Hinduism, distribution of threatening literature and destruction of Christian ...
Christian maidens of Goa meeting a Portuguese nobleman seeking a wife, from the Códice Casanatense (c. 1540) Almost half of Salcete (present-day Salcete and Morumugão Sub-District) remained Hindu till 1575, but the city of Goa was almost completely Christian by this time. [4] (Tiswadi was completely christianized by January 1563. [5])
Great Friday is a national holiday, All Souls Day is another holiday that is observed by most Christians in India. [197] Most Protestant churches celebrate harvest festivals, usually in late October or early November. [198] Easter and All Saints Day are also observed by many. Christian weddings in India conform to the white wedding.
It also forbade Hindu priests from entering Goa to officiate Hindu weddings. [60] Violations resulted in various forms of punishment to non-Catholics such as fines, public flogging, banishment to Mozambique, imprisonment, execution, burning at stakes or burning in effigy under the orders of the Christian Portuguese prosecutors at the auto-da-fé.
Born in Montepulciano, Tuscany, in September 1577, Roberto de Nobili arrived at the ports of the Portuguese in Goa and Bombay in western India on 20 May 1605. It is probable that he met here Fr Thomas Stephens, a Jesuit who had arrived in Goa in 1579, and was probably then in the process of composing his Khristapurana, an epic poem using Hindu literary forms to tell Christ's life story.