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Recent efforts from Christians and Muslims in India have united the communities to end the practice of untouchability, including a Dec. 11 march in which peaceful protesters were subjected to beatings and being sprayed with water cannons.
“We are trying to come together in this ecumenical effort,” Archbishop Anil Couto of Delhi said in a Dec. 18 interview with the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. Although the practice of untouchability, or ostracization based on one's caste, was officially outlawed in 1950 and a quota system for education and government positions was created for Dalits, Christians and Muslims were not included in affirmative action and still face discrimination and mistreatment to this day.
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