<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nIndian-Christians must actively seek \u201cborder crossing\u201d and become part of national life as \u201cfriends\u201d. Fr. Felix Wilfred writes, \u201c the point is not how much good work is done \u2013 often in patronising style for others but to what extent the Church is part of the life of others as friends\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Critical issues such as Religious Freedom, Political inclusion and Dalit-Christian Reservation remain. And yet, we look to a future with hope, much like our forebears in the run-up to \u201cour tryst with destiny\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The everyday experience of Indian-Christians is that of a wholesome identity that is at once Indian and Christian. The history of the indigenisation of Indian Christian identity is largely unknown to most of us. India became free and independent on 15 Aug 1947. It was a forward step (to use Jawaharlal Nehru\u2019s words) toward greater […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":30480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37,40],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnabastoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnabastoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnabastoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnabastoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnabastoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30457"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnabastoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53344,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnabastoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30457\/revisions\/53344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnabastoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnabastoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnabastoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnabastoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}