Missionaries are targeting children for their proselytizing practices in the name of summer camps and tuitions, as schools are closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. A few months ago, a 13-year-old tribal girl from a hill village in Thiruvannamalai was abducted by a priest who was conducting ‘tuition’.A similar incident took place near Modakkurichi in Erode district where a 7-year-old girl was threatened by Christian missionaries to convert her religion.
Govindarajan is a farmer from Madathupalayam village in Modakkurichi Union Inchampally panchayat. He has lodged a complaint with the police alleging that his daughter, who is a class two student, was being forcibly converted by two women – Usha Rani and Virginia- who are also from the same area. Usha Rani and Virginia have been constantly harassing the kid to convert. They reportedly took the child to a Church in the area and tried to convert her. They threatened the kid saying that her parents would have a terrible problem and die if she did not convert to Christianity and that their spirit would enter the girl’s body. The frightened kid told her parents about the incident.
Following this, the kid’s father Govindarajan, with the help of leaders from the Hindu Munnani, has lodged a complaint at the Malayambalayam police station.
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