Author: Kumar Chellappan
Publication: Organiser
Date: May 8, 2005
URL: http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=77&page=11
Introduction: Evangelisers are on
the prowl all over the state. They identify houses where women are alone
during daytime and approach them with Christian literature and other campaign
materials.
Aggressive evangelisation and that
too at an alarming rate is jolting Kerala state. Gospel and evangelisation
teams are storming the length and breadth of the state on a war footing.
A Christian Chief Minister whose hatred for the Hindus is quite 'well known'
and a pliable administration make the operations easy for the proselytisers.
The police force in the state is full of Christian officers who do not
have any qualms in acting as preachers. One of the prominent lawyers in
the state complained about Siby Mathew, a senior IPS officer, for whom
all criminals are equal, but Christian criminals are more equal. This speaks
volumes about the state of affairs in the state.
With Sonia Gandhi at the helm in
New Delhi, various Church authorities are in an aggressive mood. They build
up false cases against RSS activists. The incident at Olavanna where the
Missionaries of Charity alleged that they were attacked by the Sangh Parivar
came quite handy for the police to implicate innocent RSS activists. Central
Travancore area in the state is experiencing proselytisation drive of an
unprecedented nature. A Pentecostal leader by the name of K.P. Yohannan
has unleashed a reign of terror on the poor Hindus in the area. The tsunami
attack along the coastal districts of the state has come as a God-given
opportunity for the likes of Yohannan.
Evangelisers are on the prowl all
over the state. They identify houses where women are alone during daytime
and approach them with Christian literature and other campaign materials.
The shocking phenomenon is that they are targeting the general wards of
the medical college hospitals and other government hospitals in the state.
Pastors visit the poor patients and pray near their bed and brainwash them
with promises. "If you convert to Christianity, all your problems would
come to an end. It is the Satan whom you worship as God and who creates
all problems," they tell these illiterate villagers.
The new-found bonhomie between the
Church and the CPI(M) has come in handy for the evangelisers. The Kerala
CPI(M) has two prominent Christian leaders in Thomas Issac and M.A. Baby.
Though both of them are marxists, the Church considers them as their representatives
in the party. Pinarayi Vijayan, the Kerala CPI(M) secretary, is at the
mercy of these two devout Christians. That is the reason why Pinarayi sings
paeans to the evangelisers. Pinarayi went to the extent of describing the
nuns of the missionaries of charity as angels!
The CPI(M) which spares no chance
to attack Mata Amritanadamayi and Shri Ravi Shankar kept a studied silence
when Lonappan Nambadan, one of the party MPs, attended a conclave held
by the Roman Catholic church. The CPI(M) leadership is in the process of
building a flyover between AKG Centre ( the party headquarters at Thiruvananthapuram)
and the Bishop Palaces across the state. Moves are afoot to project Baby
as the future chief ministerial candidate.
