The Catholic Church in India has decided to declare January 26 as the Constitution Protection Day, said the largest church of India. Amid the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) stir across the country, marking the 71st Republic Day, the church with the archbishops across the nation has urged the people to read the preamble from the Constitution of India to remind every citizen of the roots of secularism on which the whole India stands as one nation.

Earlier, Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, Major Archbishop of Syro-Malankara Catholic Church and former head of Catholic Bishops Conference of India, said in an interview to The Indian Express, that, “Religion cannot be a criterion for deciding one’s citizenship,”.