{"id":6093,"date":"2006-05-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/05\/10\/2006-05-10-indian-catholics-protest-da-vince-code-film-screening\/"},"modified":"2006-05-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T12:00:00","slug":"2006-05-10-indian-catholics-protest-da-vince-code-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/05\/10\/2006-05-10-indian-catholics-protest-da-vince-code-film-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Catholics Protest Da Vince Code Film Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/antida-vinci-storm-brews-in-india\/9903-8.html\">www.ibnlive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">MUMBAI, INDIA, May 8, 2006: The film version of Dan Brown&#8217;s  controversial bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, was all set to hit Indian  theatres on the May 19, simultaneously along with its worldwide  release. But according to reports, Sony Pictures, the Indian  distributors of the film, have now decided to wait for the reaction the film  receives in other Asian and Non-Asian centres. The Da Vinci Code, which stars Tom Hanks, has  been facing opposition from the All India Christian Council. Mumbai-based Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) has  threatened to go on &#8220;fast unto death&#8221; from May 12 if the Government fails to  stop the release of &#8220;anti-Christian movies&#8221; like The Da Vinci Code. CSF General Secretary, Joseph Dias said thousands of  Christians will assemble at Canossa Convent in suburban Mahim, on Wednesday to  protest against anti-Christian films and to demand special legislation against  films and books hurting the religious sentiments of communities He said if the Government does not take action to  stall the release of the two movies, they would go on fast unto death from May  12.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.ibnlive.com MUMBAI, INDIA, May 8, 2006: The film version of Dan Brown&#8217;s controversial bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, was all,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}