The Mumbai high court reinstated Good Friday as a holiday after it had been removed from the list of government-approved holidays in an area in western India ruled by the federal government led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.
"We are very happy to inform you that we have won the Good Friday battle in the Mumbai high court," Auxiliary Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas of Ranchi, secretary general of the Indian Catholic bishops' conference, said in a statement after the court's April 15 ruling.
