https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/260623/st-francis-xaviers-relics-draw-12000-in-goa-india-for-decennial-exposition
I know there is a lot of bad 
stories but here is a nice one talking the faith in India
At least 12,000 people gathered in the western state of Goa, India, on Thursday for the opening of a decennial exposition of the saint's partially incorrupt remains.
The celebration takes place amid growing violence toward Indian Christians, which has "skyrocketed" according to a 2024 report by U.S. Christian leaders who urged the U.S. State Department to add India to the watchlist for religious freedom violations.
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Meanwhile, over on the hill outside town...
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Reminder that Goa was majority catholic when India invaded it.
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St. Thomas Catholics are chill, if you have a Syro-Malabar or Syro-Malankar parish within driving distance I recommend checking out the
liturgies.
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Where I live in leaf land there are a lot of Goa Catholics and St. Francis Xavier is a bigger parish in my area
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I think those are Orthodox aren't they?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syro-Malankara_Catholic_Church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syro-Malabar_Church
No, they were one of the Eastern Churches that came back into full Communion with Rome when we returned in the colonial era (the other 21 of them mostly came back during the Crusades).
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"O Lord, grant us that love which can never die, which will enkindle our lamps but not extinguish them, so that they may shine in us and bring light to others. Most dear Savior, enkindle our lamps that they may shine forever in your temple. May we receive unquenchable light from you so that our darkness will be illuminated and the darkness of the world will be made less. Amen." - Saint Columba of Iona
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