Christianity in Gujarat

Christianity is a minority religion in Gujarat, a state of India. A Diocese of Gujarat of the Church of North India exists. A Diocese of Gujarat of the Methodist Church in India exists as one of the largest Protestant Christian Denomination along with CNI and CSI Churches. The Salvation Army and Alliance churches too can be found in the state. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ahmedabad, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gandhinagar, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baroda, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Rajkot and the Orthodox Diocese of Ahmedabad have their seat in the state.[1] The state has anti-conversion legislation.[2] Apart from this many free or independent churches are quite prominent in the state, though being small in number they are very strong in their ideas adhering to The Holy Bible, thus these different churches also are going by the name of Bible Church. Gandhinagar, the capital city of the state of Gujarat, is a home to Green City Bible Church, stationed on the prominent Sarkhej - Gandhinagar Highway a part of the National Highway 147.

St Paul's Church, Diu

History

Missionaries included John Taylor M. D. (d. 1821), Joseph Taylor (d. 1852), his son J. V. S. Taylor (d. 1881) the translator of the Gujarati Bible "Old Version" (1861, rev. 1899), and his grandson George Pritchard Taylor (b. 1854) author of a Gujarati grammar. Missionaries established schools in the first half of the 20th century.[3] Gujarati Christian and Khristie Bandhu are Gujarati Protestant monthlies published from Ahmedabad. Khristie Bandhu being older publication than Gujarati Christian. Doot is Gujarati Catholic monthly published from Anand, Gujarat since January 1911.[4]

References
  1. World Christian Encyclopedia , Second edition, 2001 Volume 1, p. 370-371
  2. "Indiase deelstaat verbiedt bekering - Kerknieuws - Kerk & Religie". Refdag.nl. 2006-09-21. Archived from the original on 2013-02-22. Retrieved 2013-12-16.
  3. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/138/1/WRAP_Hardiman_9971617-050208-Christianity_and_Adivasis_2.pdf
  4. "'Doot' has a message, launches its 100th edition in Ahmedabad". dna. 11 January 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
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