On November 4, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, met with the leadership of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, including Major Archbishop Mar Raphael Thattil, Archbishop Dr. Kuriakose Bharanikulangara, and other senior bishops.
The Sagar Vani stated, “The priest became a Catholic as a teenager, and his father Ramesh Ahir and others in the family remain Hindu and live in a village near Ratona in the Sagar district.”
