MUMBAI: When Winnie D’Souza wanted to marry her daughter into a ‘decent’ family, she scanned the matrimonial columns of Catholic periodicals in Panaji. After shortlisting a few young men, D’Souza made inquiries about their caste. She wanted her daughter to marry a Brahmin. Most Catholic publications do not list caste categories as they did… Read More »
The Rev. Sydney Knight has suggested that relations between the Buddhists and Christians is now very amicable and everything is fine between them. This could be contested. Let us look at one very important inter face between the two religions ? Christian conversion of Buddhists. Patrick Johnstone stated that Sri Lanka is the only non-Muslim… Read More »
North-East India is a term that usually refers to the seven states of Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. Sikkim and the Darjeeling district of West Bengal belong to it geographically but are not normally included though often associated with the North East India Christian Council. With the exception of the two… Read More »
Bangalore, Feb 2 (PTI) In the backdrop of the JusticeSomashekhar Commission Report, noted Kannada writer MChidanandmurthy today called for introduction of a bill tocurb “religious conversion by fundamentalists” during thecoming session of the state legislature. Opposing conversions that took place by offering monetaryinducements, he alleged that it was often vulnerable sectionsof people that had been… Read More »
The Supreme Court should have issued notice to all parties involved in the Graham Staines case before excising portions from its verdict dealing with conversion. The Supreme Court shocked the Hindu community when on January 25 it succumbed to pressure from Christian activists and modified its January 21 judgement in the Graham Staines murder… Read More »
Dr T Hanuman Chowdary Conversion to Christianity is a multi-national religious business. Just as business multinationals compete with one another to sell the same commodity or service, a number of church groups and missionary organizations are competitively marketing and selling their ware -Christianity. In fact, in a debate on conversions on TV-9, a Telugu TV… Read More »
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 »
Joshua Project II has been conceived as a war project and is now being implemented like a military model – to be precise a Blitzkrieg Operation, with the intent to invade, occupy, control or subjugate the population of India. This Nazi-type military strategy was based on solid intelligence emanating from the ground on various facets… Read More »
In the context of religion, this question must be rephrased as ‘Should we stop conversions?’ The plain answer would be that we should not, provided the conversions are genuine and the person concerned has changed his or her religion out of the conviction that it offers a better personal spiritual path. Any conversion should… Read More »
I have a simple request for Church leaders – Catholic and Protestant and I speak as a friend: Kindly don’t try to internationalise whatever quarrel you have with your non- Christian fellow citizens. In the end it will prove counter- productive. You may reap the satisfaction of having embarrassed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led… Read More »