Posted on 05/11/2023 11:55:55 PM PDT by Cronos
More than a hundred Hindu activists forcefully entered a Catholic school in Chhattisgarh to oppose a summer catechetical camp held there for Catholic children.
The intruders, who entered the Vishwadeep School campus around noon on May 7, alleged the program was meant to convert “Hindu” children. The school in Durg, 40 km west of Raipur, the state capital.
On information, police and government officials rushed to the school and pacified the activists, after verifying from the organizers that all the children were Catholics and only some moral lessons were imparted to them.
As many as 197 boys and girls, studying in 8-12 grades, had come to the camp from seven nearby parishes. Bhilai area has many Catholic parishes,
The archdiocese conducts the annual summer catechetical camps or retreats for Catholic children to supplement Sunday catechism classes.
The intruders, belonging to various Hindu organizations, claimed that list showed names of Hindu children. They demanded to know whether the organizers had written permission from the government to conduct the religious program and from the parents for their children to attend it.
Father John Ponnore, the diocesan catechetical director, explained to them that their Catholic parents’ permission was implicit since they had to pay 400 rupees each as fees for meals and accommodation for three days. They also said no permission from the government was needed to organize programs for church members. But the activists ignored the priest.
Vaijayanti Mala Tigga, a parishioner involved in the camp, was a government employee, and the fundamentalists said at least she should have followed the government norms.
On checking the organizers’ laptop, Thashildar Durga Sahu and the BJP local ward member Hema Sharma found no materials for religious conversion. But the fundamentalists alleged that the organizers had deleted the contents.
Father Ponnore explained to them that these children were taught the right use of mobiles, besides providing them sex education.
The police and the authorities made the fundamentalists to return by 4 pm. On hearing the news, some 300 people also gathered outside the gate.
Elections to the state legislative assembly are due this year and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party is making conversion an issue. It has accused the ruling Congress party of encouraging the Church to convert Hindus
I guess they are bothered by the history of forced conversions.
There is no history of forced conversions in independent India (India has been independent since 1947)
This is a made up story by the BJP
It's true that Christianity practiced it in medieval times, and the Jews in ancient times, mostly with captured gentile women. So there is some Biblical basis for forced conversions. Not saying we should do that today.
Deuteronomy 21:10-13
When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.
Numbers 31:15-17
“Have you allowed all the women to live?” he [Moses] asked them. “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
No, it’s mainly the lower castes converting to various Nazarene denominations and these lower castes, in turn, reject the social, professional, and economic limitations of their birth.
The elites at the top are basically trying to keep them down and prevent upward mobility.
It’s the same thing elite Democrats do, albeit by different means: mass immigration to keep wages low, welfare programs to discourage entrepreneurship and instill dependency; victim mentality; and even making special classes so kids don’t learn English and always end up on the bottom tier.
Better that kids learn all about the blue elephant and the blue chick with a bunch of arms. Hinduism is as sophisticated as a children’s book.
well. to be fair, the religious beliefs of all religions look silly from outside in.
What we Christians believe can be difficult for non-believers to believe - look at the trouble that the Apostles had to preach to both the Jews and the Gentiles
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