Aug 8, 2023
As part of the Arlington Diocese Mission Cooperative Plan, representatives of the Dalit Solidarity spoke at all the Aug. 5-6 Sunday Masses about their mission work providing quality education for the poor and Dalits in India. (Dalit is the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. Today, approximately 25 percent of India’s 1.3 billion people are Dalits — that comprises nearly 300 million people!) Father Benjamin Chinnappan's homily on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord on August 6th talks about all. For more information, click here and here.