In India during the last 50 years due to problems related to religious discrimination persecution threats attacks intimidation it was not possible for Christians to acquire new land to build new Churches, Graveyards, etc neither it was possible for Christians to protect vacant church properties from being encroached by slumlords, buildersmafia, right wing hindu groups, etc.....at the most Christians could do was renovate the old churches that were built when the British & Portuguese were around..........Whereas...The Hindu community have not only renovated old Hindu temples but also acquired land and built Hundreds of new Hindu temples across India, USA, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, NewZealand, Africa, Russia..................If the Christian Clergy reduce the duration of Sunday Mass to a maximum of 20 minutes and distribute a wafer thin Eucharistic bread made from a mixture of rice/wheat flour, wine & mineral water will result in more Christians attending the Sunday mass.............In Western countries the political leaders, state administration, christian religious leaders & majority christian community are highly secular, liberal, plural, tolerant this explains why minorities including the Hindu community have lived peacefully & prospered & progressed in Western countries.
In 1887, ignorant & drunken catholic villagers of bombay ( http://www.Bombayland.Blogspot.com/ ) and the rest of the salsette island adopted the designation EastIndians after some bandra residents spread rumours among them that by identifying with the name EastIndians would make it easier for them to get jobs in the protestant British owned East India company........even after the east india company fled India....the next generation of catholic villagers foolishly continued with the designation EastIndians...............Whereas......the Catholic villagers of bombay/salsette were pre-occupied with alcoholicm infighting jealousy gossiping.....the migrants from Maharashta Gujarat Rajasthan North India South India through hardwork were pre-occupied with accumulating land jobs wealth housing and various other resources all over the bombay/salsette region........ofcourse the Maratha dominated Maharashtra state machinery, collectors office, city survey offices, BMC, Shiv Sena, etc ensured the catholic villagers of bombay/salsette remained second class citizens. The money which Christians in Maharashtra are saving due to the Beef Ban should be used for drinking cow/buffalo milk & milk products. Governments GOOD GOVERNANCE policy should also include strict enforcement of Two child policy all over India, increasing legal marriageable age from 18/21 yrs to 25 yrs, passing draconian laws against corruption communal forces female foeticide/infanticide etc, breaking the builder-politician-babu nexus, reducing price of milk vegetables poultry foodgrains cereals onions potatos sugar rickshawfares busfares gas electricity diesel petrol lpg cng etc by minimum 25 percent, taking stringent action against those who encroach vacant lands to build shanties & slums & other illegal constructions, giving voting rights only for those who live legally & who pay municipal taxes, improving infrastructure industries job opportunities electricity water supply in rural & backward districts of India, giving more powers & protection to RTI Social citizen environmental civic activists, re-writing land acquisition and all other laws acts rules bills in consultation with villagepanchayats gramsabhas tribal-farmer-fisherfolk activists, ensuring all religious groups get quota in government jobs, educating people on rain water harvesting & solar power, providing insurance pensions medical facilities for all citizens. Jorge Monteiro Bombay. .