[steve86]

got a very mild taste of what it is like to be a Christian living in a slum area amongst high caste Hindus.

My wife can't send checks to her relatives in Mumbai anymore. Although the relatives were happy to move out of a slum and into an apartment building, the Hindus either intercept and tear up the checks or hold on to them for months and then pass them along with a nasty note. We now have to do bank transfers, and the Hindu tellers there are nasty also (with the exception of one friendly one -- thank God).

[Cronos]

Sorry, but you can transfer money quite easily with banking systems to India. Why send checks? A Money order can do it — I’ve never heard of anyone sending checks from the US to India

[Cronos]

Most of India is very safe for Christians to openly practice their religion. The persecutions that have occurred either tend to be caste and economics tinged as in Orissa or reactions to various non-Catholic missionaries passing pamphlets calling Hindu gods as demons.

Goa, Bombay, Tamil Nadu etc. all have lots of Christians who live alongside their neighbors, there would be no problems

In Bombay there are enclosed buildings where they will not allow a Moslem to buy a house, but Christians are ok -- Christians don't slaughter and cut up goats and cows in the building