265 churches no longer able to entice people due to lack of funds
If you regularly read our website, or follow us on social media, you must know that Mission Kaali has been busy filing complaints against various foreign missionary organisations. The goal of making these complaints, sometimes more than once, is to get the government to notice the widespread presence of foreigners on tourist and missionary visas violating the terms of their visas as well as stemming the flow of foreign funding for missionary activity. We are getting ground reports that indeed our complaints are starting to bear fruit:
265 Churches deserted by crypto xtians across Vellore district. No Biriyani, No money, No rice bags, so xtians stop to attend Sunday prayers. Even white gowns struggle to conduct prayers after MHA banned forgeion funds. Crypto xtians ditched urban area churches too.
— Nandagopal.K.M. (@nandaji1958) October 3, 2020
Normally, these churches are full of people on Saturday and Sunday; Sunday is the Christian day of worship for most churches. Of the packed churches in this one district in Tamil Nadu, how many of them are full of people who sincerely believe in Christianity? We can only make educated guesses at this point, but we would say less than 10%. So this news from ground observers shows how missionaries use enticements such as food to lure people in. And once the money to fund these enticements is cut off, then churches will be left without means to lure people (particularly if they have a needed) into the church. Food and air-conditioning are only part of the enticements offered to people to get them converted. Education is another one; here is an ad that blatantly states so:
Ad that states converted students will be given preference
Recently the government of India has been busy in suspending the FCRA licences of four Christian organisations with a long presence in India, with two other organisations being on the watchlist. We are confident that many of our direct complaints will result in more missionary organisations losing FCRA licencing. Even so, we need you to also do your part. You as a citizen also have a voice, and can file a complaint on your own. We have published a guide on how to file a complaint on the government portal website as well as how to write a complaint letter on your own. Also, if you have ground reports from your own observations of churches and unauthorised prayer houses in your area, please reach out to us through the website or on Twitter, Facebook (English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada) and Instagram.
