At least from 1540 onwards, and in the island of Goa before that year, all the Hindu idols had been annihilated or had disappeared, all the temples had been destroyed and their sites and building material was in most cases utilized to erect new Christian Churches and chapels. Various viceregal and Church council decrees… Read More »
An AIADMK leader in Pondicherry recently sounded the alarm over a conversion spree in his constituency, Uppalam, which is resulting in an open assault on Tamil culture in the area (New Indian Express, April 18, 2003). In a debate in the State Assembly, Mr A Anbalagan alleged that married women were being prohibited from… Read More »
The Sri Lankan Catholic Church, the Catholic Radio Veritas based in Phillipines, the Tamil Catholic hierachy and its priests have been the main links of the global network of the Church to protect, promote, provide succor and cover to the internationally banned Tamil Tigers. Fr. Jegath Gaspar Raj is somewht different. This catholic priest comes… Read More »
The Census Commission of India is yet to publish the details pertaining to the latest census of 2001. One does not know if the Indian Christian leadership were able to scoop out some inside information from the office of the Census Commission. They have already started asserting that there will be marginal decline in… Read More »
Delivered at a public discussion organised by Prajna Bharati A.P., on “The Ethics of Religious Conversions” at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Hyderabad. I was raised as a Catholic and went to Catholic school. My uncle was, and still is, a missionary. We were told that he was going to South America to save the souls of… 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 »
‘Hinduism and many of the occult activities that come out of the Orient are inspired by demons and demon worship…There’s this concept that all religions are the same and all are good. That is not true. The worship of the Devil is not good’. —Pat Robertson (one among the deadly devils from the west!!) Christist… 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 had never heard of Ellis Washington until I saw his recent WorldNetDaily article titled “Nation-building? No, Christian-building” and did some digging. Besides being a weekend commentator for WorldNetDaily, Washington is a black conservative, a graduate of the John Marshall Law School, former editor of the Michigan Law Review, host of an Atlanta radio program,… Read More »