Ĭhristians were active in the Indian National Congress and the Indian independence movement. The Church of North India, the Church of Pakistan, and the Church of South India are united Protestant Churches that were established as a result of evangelism and ecumenism by Anglicans, Methodists, and other Protestants in India who flourished in colonial India. Christian missionaries introduced western educational system to the Indian subcontinent to spread Christianity and campaigned for social reforms. Conversions took place through the Goan Inquisition with the persecution of Hindus and the destruction of Hindu temples. įollowing the discovery of a sea route to India by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in the 15th century AD, Western Christianity was established in the European colonies of Goa, Tranquebar, Bombay, Madras, and Pondicherry in the form of Catholicism and Protestantism.
These communities were composed mainly of Nestorians, belonging to the Church of the East in India, that used Syriac as their liturgical language. A scholarly consensus exists that Christian communities had firmly established in the Malabar by 600 AD at the latest. Following years of evangelising, Thomas was martyred and his remains were buried at St. Thomas who was a Jew by birth came in search of Indian Jews. The Acts of Thomas mentions that the first converts were Malabarese Jews, who had settled in India before the birth of Christ. The written records of the Saint Thomas Christians state that Christianity was introduced in the Indian subcontinent by Thomas the Apostle, who sailed to the Malabar region in the present-day Kerala state in 52 AD. Christianity is India's third-largest religion with about 26 million adherents, making up 2.3 percent of the population as of the 2011 census.
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