As voters in the southern Indian state go to the polls, the local Church is struggling to carry out its outreach programmes. The issue dates back to 2022, following protests over port construction by the Adani group.
The archdiocese was neither able to meet its routine expenses nor bear the cost of training seminarians after the accounts were frozen, a pastoral letter said.
The archdiocese of the Latin Catholic Church in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram says the Indian Union government has frozen its bank accounts after fishermen protested a project by the Adani port group in Vizhinjam.
The messages come at a time when the BJP is trying to win over Christian voters in Kerala with various outreach programmes ahead of upcoming Lok Sabha elections.