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The metropolitan said the situation was, however, not the same for other Christian denominations especially the Catholic church.

“The archbishop’s offer is nothing but a serious violation of human rights and against the ethics and teachings of the Catholic Church,” said Sister Dorothy Fernandes.

The reason why successive governments have failed in responding to the rights of farmers is because the rubber cultivators were late in realising it, he said.

Christians have constantly informed the state administration and the general public that the law was "irrelevant and malicious" and primarily geared at alienating Christians from other religious minorities, the prelate added.

He has a bachelor’s degree in history and economics from Bombay University and a diploma in social development and community building from the Coady Institute in Nova Scotia, Canada.

The priest has been "falsely implicated in nine serious charges including abetting crimes like rape deliberately to deny him bail."

AS Pope Benedict XVI prepares for his exit from the Apostolic Palace, 120 cardinals from around the world will begin saddling up for the...