How foreign evangelical organizations set the agenda of FCRA-receiving Indian NGOs
One of the fundamental things we need to understand is the “ownership” of Indian NGOs who are registered under FCRA and receiving foreign funds. For a backgrounder, one may see IndiaFacts exposes on Christian evangelical organizations receiving foreign funding through the FCRA route. This piece will explore a key question: who “owns” More...
IndiaFacts Impact: Mission India adds Indian director
On 18 October, IndiaFacts published the first part of a series investigating the funding sources, its modus operandi and other activities of the Michigan based evangelical organization, Mission India. The expose ran in More...
Tapan Ghosh arrested by TMC Govt: How you can help
UPDATE: According to this tweet from Tapan Ghosh he is being taken to some undisclosed location. Tapan Ghosh, President of Hindu Samhati (HS), a Hindu organisation working for the cause of Hindus in West Bengal More...
Muslims gang-rape a minor Hindu girl in Tirthahalli: Massive cover up to protect the rapists
(Note: This is a translation of the Kannada news report of a minor Hindu girl’s brutal gang rape at Tirthahalli in Karnataka, and how the entire establishment and media is working to save the rapists.) Tirthahalli More...
Conversions 101: Zakir Naik as a case study
Dr Zakir Naik, Indian public speaker on comparative religion and full time Da’ee, in his lecture ‘Da’wah or Destruction’, to motivate the Muslims to do da’wah says: If people tell you to mind your More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 27 October 2014 — 2 November 2014
1. Caste discrimination in Government-controlled temples in Kerala Report: The Hindu Aikya Vedia has petitioned the state government of Kerala to take stringent action against the Kochi Devaswom Board for denying More...
Hook, Line and Sinker – Fishing Men for Jesus
Abstract: This article explores the Biblical euphemism for conversion—fishing for men—and tries to place it in the context of evangelical organizations that operate in India. Introduction 18 – And Jesus, More...
Combating Love Jihad: Social and legal perspectives
Ever since the gang-rape case of a 20 year-old girl from Sarawa village of Distt Meerut who was allegedly abducted, raped and forcibly converted to Islam came into light, the political environment of India is heating More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 20 October 2014 — 26 October 2014
1. Hindu families under fresh threat Report: Members of two Hindu families are fearing fresh attack as the main accused in a murder case at bordering Nawdabash village in Kaliganj upazila is allegedly threatening More...
FCRA funding expose Part 2: Evangelists buying land in India
In Part 1 of this series, we saw how Organizations (primarily NGOs, but a few GOs as well) receiving foreign funds via FCRA, use that money to earn more money, and the quantum of such money in circulation within More...