Tamil Nadu police have booked 7 persons who were involved in distributing Bibles under the guise of providing COVID-19 relief materials.
These persons are functionaries of Seventh Day Adventist Trust, a Christian missionary organization which runs a higher secondary school and an international academy in Hosur, Tamil Nadu.
On September 6, some people were found distributing masks, food packs, etc. It was found that the evangelists who had organised it, distributed Bibles and other Christian literature along with the relief materials.
Distribution of Bible in the name of Masks and Food at Hosur, TN.
with police permission. Abrahamics will never leave a single chance to use their cheap tricks to lure common people.
These activities can only be stopped by society.@VishalRao0710#Church #saynotoconversion pic.twitter.com/SWKvDobPhJ— Churchanity (@churchanity_) September 8, 2021
VHP and other Hindu organisations lodged a complaint with the police for unlawfully drawing a crowd and distributing religious texts in the guise of relief materials. Based on the complaint, Seventh Day Adventist Trust’s director Pandit Vishwa, school manager Jeba Rajan, Antony Das and seven others were booked by the police.
Seventh Day Adventists run many educational and medical institutions across Tamil Nadu. In 2015 the Ministry of Home Affairs had cancelled the license of 17 Seventh Day Adventist organisations for violation of FCRA rules. Out of the 17 organisations 15 were schools spread across Tamil Nadu. The Seventh Day Adventist Church based in the US was probed by the MHA after concerns were raised about their association with Indian Christian FCRA organisations in 2020.
(With inputs from Hindu Post and Dinamalar)
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