Christianity in India
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Christianity in India
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Christianity is India's third-largest religion with about 26 million adherents, making up 2.3 percent of the population as of the 2011 census. The written records of Saint Thomas Christians mention that Christianity was introduced to the Indian subcontinent by Thomas the Apostle, who sailed to the Malabar region in 52 AD. The Acts of Thomas say that the early Christians were Malabar Jews who had settled in what is present-day Kerala before the birth of Christ. St Thomas, an Aramaic-speaking Jew
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_India
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2005-04-02T20:04:55Z
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2024-09-14T22:07:13Z
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