India’s federal commission tasked with safeguarding religi-ous minorities has called for the establishment of government-funded universities primarily for Christians. But not all Christians support the proposal.
The National Commission for Minorities in its Jan. 13 annual report said such an initiative would be in keeping with the already existing state-funded Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia University.
The commission sought a seven-year financial assistance program to establish new univer-sities for Christian communities, who already run their own edu-cational and health care facilities.
The commission said the government should collaborate with the Catholic Church in India, which runs some 400 colleges and 15,000 of 36,000 Christian-managed schools.
