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Politics may stop Catholics in South India from building Asia's tallest Jesus statue
Politics may stop Catholics in South India from building Asia's tallest Jesus statue

Hindu nationalists are trying to stop a Catholic parish’s proposed 114-feet-high granite Jesus statue atop a hill in rural South India, sparked by a large Christmas land donation from a Hindu politician. The archbishop of Bangalore sought the state chief minister’s intervention this week to continue the $1.5 million project.

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