Goan Catholics are not apprehensive about the beef ban issue in the state’s context, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said. He was responding to a query if in course of his campaign for the Panaji by-poll, Catholic voters had expressed their grievances about the beef ban narrative at the national level. “Nothing is coming through. Those who have read and have knowledge, they know the situation vis-à-vis the Goan context,” Parrikar said on Aug 17. Catholics account for more than a quarter of the state’s 1.5 million population and are a sizeable votebank in the Panaji assembly constituency. The Goa Church has openly criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party regime, both at the Centre and the BJP-led coalition government in the state, accusing it of trying to clamp down on sale of beef, brazenly in the rest of India and subtly in the coastal state, where minorities and a sizeable chunk of the six million plus tourists who visit the state, eat it.
Spanish bishops speak out after leaks of their meeting with Leo XIV
The executive committee of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, (CEE, by its Spanish acronym) meeting in Madrid this week, issued an official statement regarding the leaks
