While Donald Trump’s announcement of JD Vance’s appointment — which turned out to be Catholicism in 2019 — his appointment also has international religious implications, because of his wife.
The report is from Charles Collinspublished by Crux18-07-2024.
Vance Usha Chilukuri she is the daughter of immigrants from India e Hindi.
Parents of Usha comes from Andhra Pradeshstate in the southeast of India with a population of 90 percent Hindi. The wife of the vice-presidential candidate was born in California.
your father, Krish Chilukurihe is an aerospace engineer and university professor, and his mother, Lakshmiis a professor of molecular biology.
“I grew up in a religious home. My parents are Hindi. That was one of the things that made them good parents, made them good people,” Vance said that Fox & Friends in June.
She participated in her husband’s political campaigns, including his successful 2022 Senate campaign, and registered as republican in 2018.
The appointment of Vance covered widely in the Indian press, with newspapers interviewing her relatives.
“I want to express Usha who supports her husband as she did, who defends the values Hindisupport Hindus in the US and help them if they have any problem in practicing their religion,” said an aunt toThe Indian Express.
Currently, there are about 5 million Indian Americans, one of the largest Asian American populations. Traditionally supporting the Democratic PartyIndian-American support for Republicans is growing rapidly, especially with the rise of Republican politicians of Indian descent, including Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley.
However, both Jindal How many Haley they are Christians – there is more interest in the Indian media when Hindu husbands are appointed.
Se Trump elect, wife Vance to play an important role in building relations with what will soon be the most populous country in the world (it could be – population China decreasing, while India’s number is increasing, and the numbers are slightly inaccurate).
This is particularly interesting for the country’s small Christian minority.
A India which is controlled by the Party Bharatiya Janata (BJP), with strong links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a militant Hindu nationalist organization.
Hindu nationalists often accuse Christians of using clever and underhand tactics to seek converts. They then attack villages and conduct so-called “reconversion” ceremonies Near Wapsior “back home” – where Christians are forced to perform Hindu rituals.
Many of these “false conversions” involve marriage – when a Hindu marries a Christian and converts before the ceremony.
Any Hindi married to a Catholic vice president – himself a convert – is an image in the Church India I don’t mind seeing it in the newspapers.
Christians currently make up less than 3% of India’s population, a percentage that has not changed for many years, and face discrimination because of their perception as a “foreign” religion — despite tracing their origins to St. Thomas the Apostle.
The Church has a strange relationship with the BJP – harassment is increasing in the north of the country, but Catholics often join the party in the south where the Hindus do not control it.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi he made suggestions to Christian leaders, because he knows the small number of the religion in the country. The main goals of BJP they are Muslims, who make up about 15 percent of the population and are the main religion in the country’s main competitor. Indiao Pakistan.
However, the Catholic bishops of India refused to support the anti-Muslim views of the BJPalthough they are sometimes viewed sympathetically by the lay members of the Church.
oh BJP they are likely to look favorably on anti-Muslim views Vance – the Republican candidate recently declared that the Great Britain could become “the first truly Islamic country to acquire a nuclear weapon”, after the The Labor Party won the election on 4 July.
Historically, spouses of presidents and vice-presidents of the Irish League United States of America who are seen as the strongest unofficial advisers to their spouses. If Republicans win this year’s election, it will affect Vance Usha Chilukuri it could be much more than its predecessor.
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