Preaching Christianity close to prominent temples by violating prevalent law.
Comprehensive enquiry needed.--
It has become part of Christian missionary’s work to first start a school by telling
to educate children and then by conducting prayers and converting the school into Church. Earlier, this experiment was tried near well-known Vighneswara temple at Kanipakam in Chittor district. For some time their activities continued. Immediately after this was known to the people, the church which was converted from school had to be closed. Before forgetting that a case was booked against the organizers of this Church, another incident took place in Medaram village of Warangal District.
Medaram village is a well-known place where large religious conglomeration known by
name Sammakka-Saralamma mela takes place once in two years on a grand scale. Lakhs of devotees which includes girijans and all others hailing from Andhra
Pradesh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh States participate in the fair. Two years ago, an English medium school by C.S.I. Church organization started close to mela site. The school was subsequently converted into prayer reciting place and later into a church and then conversions started taking place. They created divisions in the local girijans. Local people agitated protesting the conversions. For two months Adivasi Sangh, local leaders and various sections of people have demanded ban on propagation of Christianity and religious conversions. On 24 th July 07, Adivasi employees’s associations, local mandal officials met district collector and submitted representations asking ban on religious conversions and to remove the Church recently built there.
Responding positively to the peoples’ pleas, the collector directed local officials
to submit a report on the activities on propagation of Christianity and on receiving the report instructed the officials to remove the Church. The circle inspector then accordingly asked the C.S.I. Church organizers to remove it. On 30th July 07, C.S.I.Church people themselves dismantled the Church and shifted the articles to Tadvai mandal center. Thus local Church officials had to remove the Church
by themselves.
They are fully aware of the Government G.O., which bans Christian religious propagation close to such prominent temples. Yet such incidents are taking place with continuous attempt to violate the above law. It has to be seen as to what happens at other pilgrim places like Kanipakam, Vijayawada Durga temple and Girijan’s pilgrim’s center Medaram etc. Whose support is forthcoming for such activities of religious propagation is not known and Government should conduct enquiry into it. It is the responsibility of the Government to take precautions to see that such incidents are not repeated and tense situations donot build up. Various Hindu organizations are asking the Government to order thorough enquiry into the whole episode.
Comprehensive enquiry needed.--
It has become part of Christian missionary’s work to first start a school by telling
to educate children and then by conducting prayers and converting the school into Church. Earlier, this experiment was tried near well-known Vighneswara temple at Kanipakam in Chittor district. For some time their activities continued. Immediately after this was known to the people, the church which was converted from school had to be closed. Before forgetting that a case was booked against the organizers of this Church, another incident took place in Medaram village of Warangal District.
Medaram village is a well-known place where large religious conglomeration known by
name Sammakka-Saralamma mela takes place once in two years on a grand scale. Lakhs of devotees which includes girijans and all others hailing from Andhra
Pradesh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh States participate in the fair. Two years ago, an English medium school by C.S.I. Church organization started close to mela site. The school was subsequently converted into prayer reciting place and later into a church and then conversions started taking place. They created divisions in the local girijans. Local people agitated protesting the conversions. For two months Adivasi Sangh, local leaders and various sections of people have demanded ban on propagation of Christianity and religious conversions. On 24 th July 07, Adivasi employees’s associations, local mandal officials met district collector and submitted representations asking ban on religious conversions and to remove the Church recently built there.
Responding positively to the peoples’ pleas, the collector directed local officials
to submit a report on the activities on propagation of Christianity and on receiving the report instructed the officials to remove the Church. The circle inspector then accordingly asked the C.S.I. Church organizers to remove it. On 30th July 07, C.S.I.Church people themselves dismantled the Church and shifted the articles to Tadvai mandal center. Thus local Church officials had to remove the Church
by themselves.
They are fully aware of the Government G.O., which bans Christian religious propagation close to such prominent temples. Yet such incidents are taking place with continuous attempt to violate the above law. It has to be seen as to what happens at other pilgrim places like Kanipakam, Vijayawada Durga temple and Girijan’s pilgrim’s center Medaram etc. Whose support is forthcoming for such activities of religious propagation is not known and Government should conduct enquiry into it. It is the responsibility of the Government to take precautions to see that such incidents are not repeated and tense situations donot build up. Various Hindu organizations are asking the Government to order thorough enquiry into the whole episode.
Samachara Bharati , Andhra Pradesh.
Hyderabad, Dt.24-8-07.
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