The Christian Canary Dying in the Coal Mine That Is India, by Jason Scott Jones

The Indian church has two open secrets. Most Westerners, already discombobulated by the enigma of India, are puzzled even further when they learn the content of these secrets.

Secret No. 1: the Indian church is a first-century apostolic church, independent of Rome. It was planted by St. Thomas the Apostle who landed on the Malabar coast in 52 A.D., where he founded seven churches and baptized six of the highest caste Hindu priestly families.

Even the Roman pontiffs had no idea of the antiquity and apostolicity of the Indian church. When Patriarch John visited Pope Callixtus II in 1122 and said he was from Hulna, St. Thomas’s burial site in India, the pontiff could not believe that there was a church in India. ….