By Yaroslav Trofimov
Medipally (India): Every Sunday, women and children gather to pray in a tiny, whitewashed church on the edge of this southern Indian village, sitting cross-legged on blue plastic sheets as they sing Christian hymns.
The men don’t dare to come. "If they are seen in the church, the officials will be informed," says Vatipally Aharon, Medipally’s Baptist pastor.
Almost all the Christians here — and the overwhelming majority across India — hail from the so-called Dalit community, the former "untouchables" relegated to the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy.
Source: online.wsj.com
