{"id":15736,"date":"2026-09-02T11:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/projets\/india-humanitarian-and-development-assistance\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:03:04","slug":"india-humanitarian-and-development-assistance","status":"publish","type":"projet","link":"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/en\/projets\/india-humanitarian-and-development-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"India: Humanitarian and Development Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"contenu-image contenu-image--image-texte\" data-component=\"15-contenu-image\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"contenu-image__inner\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"contenu-image__media\">\n\t\t\t\t<img class=\"contenu-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lafindeschretiens.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"contenu-image__body\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"contenu-image__title\">The Situation of Christians in India<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"contenu-image__filet\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contenu-image__text\"><p>With the world\u2019s largest population (1.465 billion people), India is a young, rapidly growing nation. The Christian community in India is one of the oldest in the world and accounts for 2.5% of the population, or approximately 35 million believers. It was evangelized in the first century by Saint Thomas the Apostle (in the year 52) during his visit to Kerala and Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p>These Saint Thomas Christians, who follow the Eastern Syriac Catholic rite, are organized into two major archdioceses: the Syro-Malankara (500,000 believers) and the Syro-Malabar (5 million believers), found primarily in the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu (Madras, the site of Saint Thomas\u2019s martyrdom), in the south of the country, but they are also growing rapidly in other states.<\/p>\n<p>Despite official religious freedom, acts of violence target Christian and Muslim minorities.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"contenu-image__motif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/wp-content\/themes\/oeuvre-orient\/assets\/images\/icones\/croix-jerusalem.svg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\">\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"contenu\" data-component=\"19-contenu\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"contenu__titre\">Field Activities<\/h1>\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"contenu__filet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/wp-content\/themes\/oeuvre-orient\/assets\/images\/icones\/filet.svg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"300\" height=\"3\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>In India, L\u2019\u0152uvre d\u2019Orient supports 70 projects annually led by 49 religious communities in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, as well as development assistance for new dioceses, parishes, and missionary communities in other states.<\/p>\n<p>These communities serve the most marginalized poor through initiatives such as helping to <strong>establish a school for <\/strong>\u201cragpicker\u201d<strong> children<\/strong>, who sort through waste at Delhi\u2019s landfills. This school provides <strong>these \u201cuntouchable\u201d children<\/strong> with <strong>access to education<\/strong>, as well as a uniform and lunch.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019\u0152uvre d\u2019Orient also participates in the <strong>construction or renovation of churches, parish centers, rectories, centers for people with severe disabilities, homes for widows, minor and major seminaries, clinics, and hospitals.<\/strong> Training programs for the clergy, religious congregations, and lay catechists help strengthen the Church\u2019s pastoral and missionary presence, especially in remote areas.<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"contenu-image contenu-image--image-texte\" data-component=\"15-contenu-image\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"contenu-image__inner\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"contenu-image__media\">\n\t\t\t\t<img class=\"contenu-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/94613_CR_20241127-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"contenu-image__body\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"contenu-image__title\">Asha Kiran School (Telangana state) for young people with disabilities.<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"contenu-image__filet\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"contenu-image__motif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/wp-content\/themes\/oeuvre-orient\/assets\/images\/icones\/croix-jerusalem.svg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\">\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"contenu-image contenu-image--text-image\" data-component=\"15-contenu-image\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"contenu-image__inner\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"contenu-image__media\">\n\t\t\t\t<img class=\"contenu-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ambulance04.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"contenu-image__body\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"contenu-image__title\">Purchasing an Ambulance<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"contenu-image__filet\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contenu-image__text\"><p>Purchase of an ambulance by the Carmelite community and the Goretty Bhavan retirement home in Nadavayal, Wayanad District (Kerala).<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"contenu-image__motif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/wp-content\/themes\/oeuvre-orient\/assets\/images\/icones\/croix-jerusalem.svg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\">\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":15473,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"thematique":[84],"class_list":["post-15736","projet","type-projet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thematique-education"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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