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Muslims should leave India and take theChristians along with them
Christians are told to make disciples of all nations, but missionaries have done this soaggressively in recent years that churches now want a code of conduct to spread their faith without antagonizing any others.A missionary boom in developing countries, funded by United States evangelical andPentecostal Protestants, has brought Christianity into total conflicts with majority populations that follow faiths such as Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism.Overzealous and highly paid preachers stand accused of linking humanitarian aid with baptism and insulting local faiths. Some local Christian minorities, who lived in peace before the boom, now feel a backlash as suspicion mounts against all Christians.Representatives from the main sects of christianity met in Geneva in January 2007 todiscuss guidelines to curb aggressive evangelists. Presently Christian missionaries areout to convert using money, fake miracles, outright dirty books that discredit deities of other religions and even political and even violent methods. "Due to increased proselytism even using violent methods in some parts of the Christian groups, the fiber of living together is jeopardized," said the Rev. Hans Ucko, a Swedish Lutheran in charge of inter religious dialogue at the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC). Christian leaders at the meeting, part of a three-year effort aiming to produce a code of conduct by 2009, sought a balance that would let them continue spreading their faithwithout discrediting it and antagonizing other religions. The meeting brought together anunusually broad spectrum of Christianity, from Roman Catholics and the WCC - whichgroups mainline Protestants, Anglicans and Orthodox - to the World Evangelical Allianceand Pentecostal leaders. Tensions over missionary work have flared up over the past decade or so in severalregions, most notably in Africa, India and in the Muslim world, as globalization openedup new avenues for religions to spread their views. "India and Sri Lanka are twocountries that have become very sensitive to this issue," said Monsignor Felix Machado,the Vatican's representative in the discussion.Hindu nationalists in India have passed anti-conversion laws in some states to stop thefraudulent conversion methods using money and fake miracles. Missionaries are bribing poor people to get converted to chrisitanity. In Sri Lanka, Buddhist nationalists have
 
campaigned for some control on these fraud conversions. Politicians and the lawmakerswere bribed by the Americans to prevent enactment of such laws in Sri Lanka. Political pressure from president Bush himself, have finally stopped Sri Lankans from enacting protective laws from the predatory Christian missionaries with deep pockets. Thetsunami disaster unleashed the largest wave of donations in history. Worldwide more than12 billion Dollars have been collected from state funds as well as from private purses.The biggest part of this money was in the hands of NGOs of all provenience, among themwere many Christian organizations. This has created what is known as AIDEVANGELIZATION or conversion to Christianity for receiving relief aid.Aid evangelization was seen in South Indian states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh andKerala and the same were widely reported by the local media. The stealing of TsunamiAid money, which was party meant for conversion, by some of the Christian bishops inTamil Nadu and their subsequent arrest and jailing were widely reported in the local andEnglish media. Hindus are now convinced that the Christian wife of former Indian PrimeMinister Rajiv Gandhi, the Italian born Antonia Maino now known as Sonia Gandhi was planted in the family of Nehru, to help evangelization of India. The appointment of thecentral ministers of the Congress led Government in India, is decided by Sonia Gandhi,and almost all are chistians or married to christians, even though the Christian communityin India is just 2.3%. This has led to consolidate the planting theory about Sonia Gandhi by Rome in India. In private conversations Indian leaders express that Christians in Indiaare more a threat to India, with Christian terrorism in North east and fraudulentconversions in Hindu temple towns, than the terrorist threat from the muslims.The south Indian state of Tamil Nadu has the world’s highest rate of churches per capita.Though only a small minority of people call themselves Christians, there are 1500independent Christian churches. Several cases of betrayal have been registered againstChristian priests and bishops in 2006, who pretended to build houses for Tsunami victimsand poor people and thereby cheated the public of huge amounts.
At least four bishopshave been accused of cheating the public of Rs 40 crores in the name of charity.While two bishops of the Moulin Mission Trust in Mahabalipuram and the CalvariMission Trust in Vellore have been arrested the police is hunting the other two.
Theycollected huge deposits from contractors after promising them orders for houseconstruction for tsunami victims. Some other bishops, who used the same trick, have sofar escaped arrest by absconding. Many of the churches are still collecting money for house construction for tsunami victims in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. The houses, if they have constructed any, are often not up to the needs of the victims. The Evangelicalchurch of India (ECI), for example, constructed without official permission 70 one-roomhutments in Cuddalore that could not be used and had immediately to be sealed by the police as they were in danger to collapse. These ruins had obviously only one purpose: tocarry shiny big boards with the proud inscription: "This house is a gift of the Providence
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