Christianity in Tamil Nadu
Christianity is the second largest religion in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. According to tradition, St. Thomas, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus, sailed to the Malabar Coast in AD 52. In the colonial age many Portuguese, Dutch, British and Italian Christians came to Tamil Nadu. Priests accompanied them not only to minister the colonisers but also to spread the Christian faith among the non-Christians in Tamil Nadu. Currently, Christians are a minority community comprising approximately 6% of the total population. Christians are mainly concentrated in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu – Kanyakumari (47.7% of the population, 2011), Thoothukudi (19%, 2011) and Tirunelveli (15%, 2011). The Catholic Church (including the Latin Church, Syro-Malabar Church and Syro-Malankara Catholic Church), the Church of South India, the Pentecostals, The Salvation Army Church, the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, the Evangelical Church of India, the Apostolics...
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