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RSS raps Church leaders for anti-Parivar remarks

RSS raps Church leaders for anti-Parivar remarks

Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: May 15, 2000

The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh today hit back at Church leaders and Christian MPs accusing them of indulging in "anti-Sangh Parivar propaganda" and said they should "verify the facts" before going public.

Apparently unnerved by the allegations levelled on parivar outfits over the recent attacks on Christians across the country, `Prajna Pravah', the intellectual wing of RSS, has shot off an open letter to all Members of Parliament exposing the "intentions" of the Church and accusing it of "making an issue out of non-existing events".

The letter, coming in the wake of the formation of Christian MPs' forum, quotes extensively from "Church publications" to prove the RSS charge that missionaries were engaged in mass-scale conversions.

The Christian MPs forum had expressed serious concern over the recent spate of attacks on minorities and "free distribution of hate literature" by Hindu organisations.

"The church leaders should realise that this cannot go on. They must verify facts before going public, if, of course, their intentions are clear. They should also look into the Church propaganda and literature, which is often derogatory to non-Christians to the point of being offensive," says the letter written by Rajendra Chadha, joint co-ordinator of the RSS intellectual wing.

"The Church and its leaders have been using all means, fair and foul, to sell their gospel and falsehood about India and Hindus.... They are in the habit of making an issue out of a non-existent event," the letter says.

Citing the case in which two nuns were hit by a scooter in Rewari district of Haryana, the RSS letter says, "the United Chirstian Forum for Human Rights alleged and raised a hue and cry that militant Hindu miscreants attacked the nuns in a planned and systematic manner.

"Later, even the nuns and local Christian leaders expressed surprise as to how such an incident could be converted into an attack on Christians."

Referring to the recent attack on Christian missionaries in Nagala Ajita near Agra, it said, "the fact is that the local population mainly consisting of Scheduled Caste `Kanjar Community' opposed the move of some Christians who landed in that village that morning and entered their temple with their shoes. However, the event was portrayed as an attack on Christianity."

"Even a small theft in a Christian house these days is being claimed to be part of the anti-Christian drive," it said, adding "why they (Christians) are not raising their voice against rape and attack on religious institutions of other communities. Why do not they cry on religious atrocities in Kashmir Valley".

The RSS letter refers to several "Church publications" and the report of the Justice Wadhwa Commission, which probed the killing of Australian missionary Graham Staines, to substantiate its charge of "mass conversions" being carried out by Christian missionaries.

The publications include Delhi Catholic Directory and World Christian Encyclopaedia published by Oxford University Press.
 


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