Christians constitute 2.3% of India's population, or 22.31 million voters. But their presence will remain essentially unfelt for all the impact they make on the results, or on the representation of their own community in the new Parliament.

The Kerala Story perpetuates misinformation and unfounded propaganda against the Muslim community. Love Jihad is a term which was in a way jointly fathered by the church together with a Kerala High Court judge and the locals some years go. However, the existence of the dowry system is the elephant in the room in the southern state.

Under the cumulative strain of last 10 years of the BJP rule, Catholic Bishops Conference of India recently issued guidelines to church-run schools that could well change the nature of their operations, and could affect their standing.

The burning alive of Graham Stuart Staines and his two young put the politics of religious hate, and even the apex court, on trial.

Despite the police at the gates, the atmosphere in the building – where delegates demanded that the rich and aspirational countries should put people above profits – was one of a community cultural gathering.

As with the lack of liturgy at the prime minister's visit to the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Delhi on Easter, there was a total absence of any serious conversation other than the small talk for which the prime minister is now famous.