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Asia's first woman Bishop Katakshamma spews feminist fire

India's first woman, Asia's first woman. Doesn't happen often. And Bishop Katakshamma, 58, of the Good Samaritan Evangelical Lutheran Church, spews feminist fire. Why wouldn't she?

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