A new mood of aggressive evangelism has been emanating from America. Well-funded, superbly networked, backed by the highest of the land, seized of its moral supremacy, it has India as one of its key targets, reveals VK Shashikumar in a disturbing exposé This could be the plot of a fevered thriller. A jingoistic president, multi-million… Read More »
Ours is an era of capitalism-an era marked by financial prowess, controlled by financial czars, and ruled by corrupt politicos. The greatest weapon of our times is not one that kills the body”s power to breathe, but the one which kills the mind”s power to reason-propaganda. Any person or institution which successfully utilizes this system… Read More »
The problem in Kandhamal district of Orissa is two-dimensional. One is communal and the other is social. The communal side of the issue is that the unabated evangelisation perpetrated by the Church & Missionaries in the name of freedom to propagate their religion is a sheer abuse of the Constitutional provisions. The social side… Read More »
Nepal has more than 4,00,000 Christians today and Nepal is considered to be having fastest growth of Christian population in the world says Mr. Anil Stephen in Christian Today Magazine. Nepal once considered to be one of the most peaceful countries has turned out to be a country burning with conflicts after the Christian… Read More »
Holding fierce pride in their identity, Sikhs have for decades been seen as “off-limits†by the missionary machine but not anymore. In a alarming trend, evangelism has begun to tread on the Sikh faith as well. Every aspect of Punjabi society is being overwhelmed with this new wave of assertive Christianity. Besides nationwide programs in… Read More »
Over the decades, evangelicals have sought to gain access to the caste-based reservation benefits of Hindu depressed classes. Though they failed to get religion-based reservations in the Constituent Assembly, the first Mandal Commission listed some ‘Muslim castes’ among the OBCs, and this set off the Christian quest for SC/ST benefits for ‘Dalit Christians.’ Dalit Muslims… Read More »
It was midnight. Fr Jose George could not sleep because there was no fan in his room. Jose knocked on Anna Jacob’s door. When she opened it, he told her he could not sleep. She invited him inside, because there was a fan. Jose had met Anna while conducting a retreat at Kottayam. “Why don’t… Read More »
Vatican City, – The Vatican on Friday defended the “right and duty” of Catholics to do missionary work aimed at converting people from other religions and other Christian denominations. The assertion came in a document titled “Doctrinal Note on some aspects of Evangelization”, issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the Vatican’s… Read More »
In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them abort. A city pastor has been accused by his own wife of being a paedophile and of misappropriating church funds. The charges against K Shantaraju, the 45-year-old pastor of… Read More »
Among other meanings, proselytism connotes the giving up by a person his religion and embracing another. This may be occasioned either by conviction or by coercion and or temptation by a promise of a better material life. While the former is excusable the latter is unpardonable as it amounts to the exploitation of a person’s… Read More »