The Legal Rights Observatory (LRO) has uncovered a number of NGOs that have received foreign funding under the guise of social service and used it for anti-religious, anti-Hindu and anti-India activities. According to a recent report by the organization, four NGOs in Madhya Pradesh are receiving large sums of money from the United States for religious conversion.
LRO, on its Twitter page, shared a copy of the complaint given to the Union Home Ministry about four organizations from Madhya Pradesh – Grameen Nava Jagriti Yojana, Aadharshila Sansthan, Atma Vikas Sanstha and Christian Medical- Training Center receiving ₹ 222.76 crore through FCRA in the last five years which were being used for proselytizing activities.
All four organizations operate in the Damoh region of the state of Madhya Pradesh. The question may arise as to why these four organizations should be mentioned together. This is because all of the four have been funded by the same American organization – Central India Christian Mission. Another reason is that the executives of all three organizations are the same people.
The pastor Rajkamal David Lal and his wife Sheila Lal manage the Grameen Nava Jagriti Yojana or Nava Jagruti Education Society. His family is involved in missionary work. They run another missionary organization called the Mid India Christian Mission.
Jeevan Masi, along with Rajneesh Morris Newton, Kathir Yousuf and Frank Harrison, are also executives for three of the four organizations mentioned earlier. As usual, these organizations claim that they are involved in community service such as sanitation, drinking water, education, employment and human rights. But the actual reason behind the Central India Christian Mission funding is just one – converting the natives to Christianity.
The Central India Christian Mission (CICM) on its website mentions the following as their purpose and mission – “Taking the love and knowledge of Jesus Christ to unreached people in India and beyond.”
Although the organization targets India, it generally states that it operates in Southeast Asia. It has mentioned in its mission statement that it intends to carry the light of the ‘gospel’ to areas where there is no one who hears the gospel in spiritually dark areas. The organization has openly stated on its website that all of its missions are based solely on the gospel of Jesus Christ. The website also mentions that it has been leading the preparation of religious pastors for the last 40 years.
They have a motto, which is to Educate, Equip, Empower. If a student in their Bible College is given a full scholarship, he or she will be able to “preach the good news to 1000 people”, convert 200 people, and establish 4 new churches (Church Planting).
Their tactic is to separate young children from their parents and providee them with education, food, and shelter to equip them to plant the seed of Christianity.
All four organizations are involved in this mission. With LRO bringing this to the attention of the Union Home Ministry, it is expected that the government would soon be taking an action on these four NGOs.
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