Monday, January 29, 2007

missionaries trespassing at Hindu festivals...

jan 28th, 2007

these people ought to be drawn and quartered. disgusting bigots.

also note that KPYohannan is yet another religious scamster of kerala christist origin. if you look around, a large number of the major christist scams have a solid kerala christist component. if someone digs around, they'll probably find that KPYohannan was also an imported nurse-husband who latched onto the ignorance of yanks to make big bucks for himself.

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From: Moksha

rajeev,

too bad these missionaries can't intrude at the Haj festival in Saudi Arabia ..we all know where that would lead them to ...straight to the gallows :)


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GFA missionaries arrested at Ardh Kumbh

Posted January 24, 2007


January 23, 2007
Crusadewatch.org
http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=614&Itemid=67

Allahabad : Police arrested six Gospel for Asia missionaries for tresspassing at Ardh Kumbh festival. Scores of Gospel for Asia leaders and missionaries camped at the Ardh Kumbh location to "offer the pilgrims an alternative to the traditional rituals by introducing them to Jesus".

Some piligrims got into an argument with some missionaries who were denigrating Hindu gods. Police sensed trouble and asked missionaries to leave the place as it is against law to deinigrate other religions. The women's team retreated while the men's team was belligerent. Police arrested the leaders and released them a day after. The missionaries claimed that they had talked about Christianity to over 200,000 pilgrims.

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Christian persecution? an oxymoron..

Gospel For Asia Missionaries Beaten, Arrested at Indian Festival

Added: Jan 23rd, 2007 10:35 PM

ALLAHABAD, INDIA (ANS) -- Gospel for Asia (GFA) native missionaries--including a state leader--have been driven away, beaten and even arrested by police at the site of the Ardh Kumbh, a massive festival during which millions of Hindu pilgrims bathe in the confluence of two sacred rivers at the north Indian town of Allahabad.

Yesterday (Monday, January 22), an estimated 20 million people bathed in the Ganges where it meets the Yamuna River, and up to 60 million are expected to have taken the religious plunge before the 45-day event is over on February 16. To help accommodate the huge crowds and promote safety, officials have set up a "city" of 50,000 tents over a 30 square-mile area, brought in 25,000 toilets and deployed a police force of around 20,000.

Traffic has been rerouted from all roads leading to the river. As a result, GFA native missionaries ministering at the event had to walk or ride bicycles about 10 kilometers (6 miles) to reach the festival site. GFA native missionaries and Bible college students were attending the event to offer the pilgrims an alternative to the traditional rituals by introducing them to Jesus.

The team for the festival outreach included staff members from the GFA state office, women from local churches, students and staff members from Bible colleges as well as pastors from Allahabad. As of January 21, more than 200,000 pilgrims had happily accepted the Gospel tracts.

On that day, however, radical anti-Christian thugs beat up three native missionaries, stole their materials and told them to leave the festival. One of the missionaries was taken to the hospital with severe injuries, although he is responding well to treatment.

Anti-Christian sentiment was also evident yesterday morning, when police told a GFA women's team to leave. The women retreated, but a men's team, headed by a state leader and two pastors, continued to share the Good News with those attending the festival. The police then arrested six of the Christians, questioning them for a day before releasing them. One of the arrested pastors called it "an honor" to be persecuted for the sake of the Gospel.

GFA President K.P. Yohannan asks Christians to pray that the persecution will not escalate. "Please pray for our workers who were serving at this event, and that many pilgrims will receive the Good News of forgiveness through our Lord," he said.

http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/gospel-for-asia-missionaries-beaten-arrested-at-indian-festival/

http://www.christianpersecution.info/

 

1 comment:

Kerry Hancock Jr said...

If you permit to view this comment. Thank you for allowing me to share my point of view.

I wrote this Christian poem for Gospel For Asia and the poem is entitled "Gospel For Asia"

http://www.messengerinchrist.com/2007_02_03_archive.html