News from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Iran. – Pope Leo XIV: Major Chrism Mass homily rejecting “domination” in mission, days before Algeria visit. – LDS Church: Record Missionary Deployment. – The evangelical missionary organization To Every Tribe published a report addressing the ethics of modern missions.
India: state to tighten control on conversions – Report blames missionaries for violence in Madhya Pradesh
New Delhi, July 26 (Compass) — The government of the north-central state of Madhya Pradesh has declared that it will amend its anti-conversion law to check the conversion of tribal people to Christianity. The decision was made after Narendra Prasad, a retired director-general of police, submitted a report on May 21 claiming missionaries were forcibly […]
India: Evangelist Completes Controversial Prayer Meeting Hounded By Protests
Bangalore, India (UCAN) — An internationally known Christian evangelist ended his three-day prayer meeting in southern India as protesters called for the resignation of the state government that had allowed it to proceed. Despite continued outcries by right-wing Hindu groups, American preacher Benny Hinn completed his “Festival of Blessings” Jan. 23 in Bangalore, the capital […]
India: dead man “reconverted”
Delhi, October 12 (Compass) — Residents of Gurandi village, Orissa, dug up the body of a Catholic man on October 4, 2004, and ceremonially “reconverted” him to Hinduism, along with the living members of his family. The incident was triggered when Bala Tulasiga, a 35-year-old Catholic convert, was buried in a Hindu cemetery. Purna Chandra […]
India: Hindu ‘reconversions’ continue in Orissa
Delhi, October 22 (Compass) — At least 336 tribal Christians were “reconverted” to Hinduism on October 17 in a mass ceremony organized by the World Hindu Council in Orissa, India. The ceremony took place in the remote village of Baridia in Sundargarh district, about 280 miles west of Bhubaneswar, the state capital of Orissa. Those […]