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1. The west should beat a path to India to learn about church and evangelisation. India will host the next Cardijn Community International meeting in a few years time.

   Posted By: David Moloney

2. More than conveying a fascinating account of challenge and response to the call to Catholics to enter into mission, and the form that such a response takes in my native India, my sense is that this video utters a challenge to us all to place justice at the centre of Christian evangelisation.
   In listening and participating in this discourse in Australia, I sometimes observe that justice has fallen off the missiological table and that the New Evangelisation is about expunging all reference to it and instead replacing it with conservative and inward-looking constructions of Christianity.
   A few years ago Australian Catholicism and in particular its schools and parish communities were in the grip of a Mission and Justice Program, which was an initiative of the National Catholic Missionary Council.
   For the first time, in my experience, this Program forcibly disenfranchised Catholics of the notion that mission is what we conduct in remote and foreign lands, in the course of which we bring a semblance of Western-saturated cultural values to pagans.
   Indeed, this was the model of mission in which I was ignorantly formed and my sense is that many of us are still comfortable with this view.
   Fr Jadav's experience dramatically disavows us of this, showing us that Indian Christians may have a thing or two to teach us about bringing Christ's Kingdom values to life in Australia. Instead of rejecting the dominant culture, as fundamentalists insist, we need to be in the midst of it, critiquing it from inside.

   Posted By: Michael Furtado

3. Loved the presentation and insight it gave me of the situation in India andthe genesis of Christianity-Thank you

   Posted By: loretta

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