A shocking incident from Chennai has recently come to light, bringing to the fore yet again, the long standing debate on christian conversion activities in our country.
According to a report by Organiser, a strategic conference of Church leaders to discuss their “Vision 2030 Nehemiah Push” was held in Chennai on January 10 and 11 attended by over 300 missionaries and christian priests. The event was reportedly held at Radisson Blue Hotel in Chennai. The event saw the participation of controversial Christian pastor Mohan C. Lazarus who is known for his hate speech against Hindus.
Reportedly, the Church leaders congregated at Chennai for this ‘strategic meet’ to make a big push for establishing 400,000 Churches in the ‘unchurched villages in India’ under the leadership of Rev. Kalyan Kumar of Harvest Church India.
It is said that during the meeting it was resolved that they would undertake random mass conversion targetting 2292 ‘unreached’ communities totalling to 59,92,74,000 people, almost half of the Indian population.
In the first phase, the missionaries plan to target 25 communities and convert them to Christianity.
The Vision 2030 Nehemiah Push declares, “Ask God to rise up prayer teams who will begin breaking up the soil through worship and intercession. Ask the Lord to call full time Christian workers to works amongst the Brahmin, Yatav, Chamar, Rajput, Pathan, Ansari, Mahishya, Mali” and prays for a ‘vibrant Church planting’ in a bid to change the demography and make India a ‘Christian nation’.
The meeting gains significance in light of the ruling DMK openly declaring that the MK Stalin-led government in the state was formed by Christians and for Christians.
Where Will The Money Come From To Plant 4 Lakh Churches?
Let’s do some number crunching. If the target is to build approximately 4 lakh new Churches across India, it would amount to a minimum of ₹80,0000 crores, given a minimum of ₹20 lakhs for each church, for a small, modest church/prayer hall, including purchase of the required land, construction and labour costs, basic indoor requirements like electricity, plumbing, seating etc.
To build four lakh Churches would require a minimum of ₹80,000 crores and to meet their 2030 target, the christian organizations will need to spend upwards of ₹12,000 crores annually, a minimum of Rs 1,000 crores per month! Domestic Christian contributions cannot make up for the lakhs of crores that churches, their missionary activities, christian charities and institutions like hospitals, schools, christian groups like the YMCA etc. require every year.
The world wide church is a huge world wide business enterprise that demands and receives funds from christian believers, big business corporations looking for religious and political support as well as governments of christian nations that fund churches for “welfare” activities. Large banking and financial corporations fund them too at low interest rates, apart from free CSR (corporate donations) type of money inflow, in the name of social welfare. Overall, the huge, unimaginable amount of funds of the churches and missionary organizations, are in turn invested into profitable christian businesses such as educational institutions, hospitals, research centres Etc. Church businesses also take advantage of tax loopholes, citing ‘charity’. In certain countries like India, where government regulation and financial accountability are not taken seriously, they operate as profitable yet tax-exempt “NGOs” (non governmental organizations claiming to be non-profit).
In countries like India, church and missionary organizations go a step further in financing and promoting small, medium and large business enterprises by converted christians – they help with the set up, financing and promoting of businesses like schools, hospitals, transportation and even shopping complexes run by converted christians. Many christian or muslim owned businesses start with the financial help of christian/muslim religious organizations (purported NGOs, charities). When they establish themselves and start making profits, they give back generously to their religious institutions and thus, this profitable religious-funding cycle continues!
About two years ago, in one of his video posts, writer Maridhas presented worrying information along with the relevant statistics, of a whopping 15,000 churches built in Tamil Nadu alone, in just the last ten years.
In countries like India, domestic contributions alone are not sufficient, hence the need for foreign funding. The religiously-motivated foreign organizations plan, fund and supervise conversion activities in countries like India with two broad categories of objectives – the domestic agenda of increasing the numbers of Christians in India and an international objective of influencing India’s policies by covertly supporting “secular” politicians and parties.
Thus far, India is the only major nation protecting all Eastern-Indic faiths, that has managed to survive the onslaught by the two religions, barring the smaller nations holding on to their Buddhist faith.
(With inputs from Organiser and hinduexistence.org)
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