By The Hindu Bureau
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In response to an article published in the RSS mouthpiece Kesari criticising Christians, the Catholic Church’s mouthpiece in Kerala has hit back, stating that the piece “lays bare the true colours” of the Sangh Parivar.
An editorial in its official daily Deepika published on Monday (September 15, 2025) described the article as “part of a calculated conspiracy to undermine the Constitution by targeting Christians.” The fact that it was written by a Sangh Parivar leader in an RSS publication, the paper observed, “only makes the agenda clearer.”
The editorial goes on to note that “the very communal movement which distanced itself from the freedom struggle and instead aided the British policy of division is continuing the same tactics even today.”
“Having stayed away from the Indian Independence movement and oiled the divisive machinery of the British, they still persist with the same agenda even after the nationalists drove away imperialism. The provocation for this can be the responses that the laws prohibiting religious conversion, which have been sharpened by BJP-ruled States recently, are indeed unconstitutional and should be challenged in court,” it said.
The editorial further remarks that while the BJP extends one hand towards Christians in Kerala, the other is busy advancing an entirely different agenda, something obvious even to those who fail to see it or pretend otherwise. For such intermediaries, the dreams of a theocratic state and the dictates of Manusmriti may well continue, it adds.
Only a couple of days earlier, Kesari had published a strongly worded article targeting Christians. Written by Hindu Aikya Vedi State vice-president E.S. Biju, the piece alleged that there were even attempts to establish a Christian nation.
This fierce attack came at a time when the State BJP has been making determined efforts to win over Christian communities.
The article, titled ‘The Pathways of Global Religious Conversion’, was written against the backdrop of the arrest of two Kerala nuns in Chhattisgarh earlier this year. It levels serious allegations against the Church and its leadership, claiming that attempts are under way in several States to alter the country’s legal framework to facilitate conversions.
