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Missionaries

News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Evangelist IAS officer caught trying to practise Christian ‘faith-healing’ inside govt hospital, police called

OpIndia Staff - 11 March, 2020

TN IAS Umashankar was rescued from government hospital attendants and relatives of some patients had complained against his evangelical activities.

News Reports

Christian pastor admits on camera how he kicked gods of non-Christian communities and created hundreds of ‘Christ villages’, complaint filed by legal NGO

OpIndia Staff - 23 December, 2019

Pastor Praveen Chakravarthy asserted that a 'Christ Village' means a village where everyone had accepted Christianity

Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Police detains one Ramswaroop Mishra for organizing Christian Missionary event in Bakewar

OpIndia Staff - 6 December, 2019

Etawah Police has detained one Ramswarup Mishra for organizing a Christian missionary event in Uttar Pradesh

Crime

UP: Christian Missionaries with Hindu names organised ‘Dharmasabha’ to convert sick people to Christianity, arrested

OpIndia Staff - 27 November, 2019

The three arrested preachers advocated religious conversion to Christianity as a panacea for all serious diseases

Specials

The Rice Bag Project: ‘Mission India’ and how it uses rice bags and caste role-play games to convert Hindus to Christianity

OpIndia Staff - 19 November, 2019

Mission India is an evangelical organization that seeks to 'transform India with the love of Christ through the local Church' and it uses Rice Bag to do so

News Reports

‘Missionaries go back’, Christian prayer meet stopped in Himachal Pradesh after VHP’s protest alleging illegal conversion

OpIndia Staff - 15 September, 2019

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) protested against a 'prayer meeting' organized at a private guest house in Sunder Nagar district in Himachal Pradesh.

Opinions

Demographic impact of Christian Missionaries: India needs the equivalent of Russia’s Yarovaya law

Shashank Goyal - 15 June, 2019

Christian Missionaries are still aggressively targeting the economically deprived section of India’s population and rapidly converting them into Christianity with a mission to increase the number of “believers”.

Political History of India

Church Bombings in the year 2000: How Christian priests blamed Hindu groups for attacks committed by Islamic terrorists

K Bhattacharjee - 8 June, 2019

Along expected lines, Christian priests blamed Hindu right-wing groups for the 2000 Church Bombings but reality could not have been more different.

News Reports

Character assassination: ‘Liberals’ try to malign union minister Pratap Chandra Sarangi by raking up the murder of Christian Missionary Graham Staines

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2019

The Wadhwa Commission that investigated the murder made it clear that there was no evidence to suggest that Bajrang Dal was involved in the crime.

Crime

After Chau, another Christian missionary risks the existence of an isolated tribe in Brazil, could be tried for genocide

OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2019

After John Allen Chau risked the lives of the isolated Sentinelese tribe in the Andamans, another American missionary has now risked the lives of people from an isolated tribe in Brazil

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