Apostolic Nuncio to India Archbishop Leopold Girelli has urged the Indian Catholics to speak up for the rights of all minority groups in the country.
“In this kind of struggle, if you want to call it that, we should remember that we are not standing up for just our rights as Catholics. We are standing for all minorities and the rights provided to minorities under the Indian constitution,” the Pope’s ambassador told a gathering of priests and Catholics April 23 in Bengaluru, southern India.
The nuncio was on a two-day pastoral visit to the capital of Karnataka state that ended April 24. It was his first visit to the city of gardens.
Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore presided over the event.