On January 15, “Nijam Today” reported that it had learnt through reliable sources, of the arrest and subsequent release on conditional-bail, of a fanatic christian missionary priest named “Pastor” Kuntam Edward Williams.
The Hyderabad police arrested christian “Pastor” Kuntam Edward Williams, at Paderu in Andhra Pradesh for his fear-mongering New Year speech, predicting a “Christian genocide” in India in the year 2023 at the behest of the Indian government and Prime Minister Modi. A video recording of his hate filled New Year speech went viral – Netizens were outraged at the sheer madness, prejudice and lies of the christian fundamentalist priest, comparing Mr. Modi to a biblical king, Nebuchadnezzar and Adolf Hitler and falsely claiming large scale atrocities “planned” against christians under the BJP.
Pastor Kuntam Edward Williams claims to have read a “American Top Secret Report” and made extreme comments saying that the BJP government at the centre would create ‘genocide’ in 2023 and lakhs of Christians would be killed by stab wounds and gunshots in that horrific massacre. The extremist priest went as far as to point fingers at the people in the church and said that almost half of them would not be seen in 2024 because they would be murdered in India by stabbing, shooting and severe beating, without seeing the new year 2024!
The man claimed “While the whole world is looking at India, the ruling BJP is planning to separate Hyderabad from Telangana and make Hyderabad a union territory to steal the revenue generated from that city. He said this is a beautiful opportunity for the Christians of India to either become a ‘hero or zero’, ” in a clear attempt to incite christians and bring politics into what is meant to be a religious dialogue in a church.
Mr A Gopal Rao of Hyderabad had filed a complaint with the Cyber Crime police, alleging that Pastor Edward William’s New Year Hate speech at a Hyderabad church, could trigger communal violence.
In his formal complaint, Mr Gopal Rao cited a widely circulated Youtube Video of the man’s irrational, hate filled speech – the Church was quick to make the youtube video link of Pastor’s speech “private”.
Based on the complaint, Cyber Crime Police, Hyderabad, registered an FIR against Pastor Edward Williams under sections 153(A), 295(A), and 505(1)b of the IPC.
However, the arrested man has now been released on bail with a notice to appear before the concerned Hyderabad police department, within one week of his release.
Back on September 25, 2019, the same man, Christian Pastor Kuntam Edward William, while speaking at an annual church function said that PM Modi had created the critical CDS post (Chief of Defence Staff) so that “he could bring in a presidential form of government and declare himself ‘President for life’.”
About Pastor Kuntam Edward Williams
The christian priest, Kuntam Edward Williams and his wife appear to run a profitable christian preaching and conversion venture in Andhra, Telangana and parts of Karnataka including Bengaluru, aside from their christian television and you-tube/ blogging revenues from a primarily Telugu christian base. His online biography proudly states that Kuntam Edward Williams has done extensive christian preaching among youth in churches and camps, as well as on various college campuses in India.
A careful scrutiny of the man called, Pastor Kuntam Edward Williams reveals that he is attached to many churches and “ministries” or evangelical/ missionary organizations and targets all sections of Hindu society for his religious conversion attempts including the emotionally vulnerable LGBT community. It appears that kuntam Williams is associated with the infamous Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM), founded by the late Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias, an Indian-born Canadian-American Christian evangelical minister and apologist. There were severe sexual abuse allegations levelled against Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias by multiple women that he had engaged in habitual sexual misconduct and/or abuse. Ruth Malhotra, a former member of RZIM, claims that suspicions regarding Zacharias’ behaviour had existed during his lifetime but that RZIM employees were not allowed to investigate.
Pastor Kuntam Edward Williams has been the host of Nireekshana television since 2000, which was sponsored by CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network) Multimedia Pvt Ltd and is aired on TV9 every Sunday evening at 5.30. He is a blogger and interactive web manager for an IPTV called “tipritv’ which reaches the Indian diaspora converted-Christian population. His programs are also a part of Sakshi TV’s network. Sakshi newspaper and television network is a media house owned by the current Andhra Pradesh chief minister, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, whose family are converted christians. In fact, it was during the leadership of Andhra’s first christian chief minister of the Congress party, YS Rajeshekar Reddy back in 2004, that the state saw the launch of a significant number of christian organizations of all types and sizes along with various organizations and fanatic christian priests, who openly preach the “superiority” of Christianity and indulge in aggressive religious conversion activities by lies about Hinduism and Hindu gods and by offering financial incentives to poor, gullible people from through large foreign donations received by the missionary preachers for the purpose of promoting Christianity in any manner possible.
(With inputs from Nijam Today and Hindu Post)