@ArchbishopFoley, as a communicant of @The_ACNA, I beg you in the name of Jesus to withdraw from this abominable legitimization of #Modi, a Prime Minister named by @persecutionnews as one of the top persecutors of Christians in the world today.
Unless your purpose for participating is to boldly, clearly, and unconditionally call #Modi to repentance, then how will your presence there serve as anything other than a whitewashing of a PM whose government is doing everything it can to criminalize Christianity in India?
@ArchbishopFoley, perhaps you, like much of the American Church, are unaware of the skyrocketing, nationwide attacks on Indian Christians by radical Hindu nationalists linked to #Modi’s political party, #BJP, and its mother organization, the #RSS paramilitary.
Yet, @ArchbishopFoley, speaking to you as a communicant under your oversight, it is this very ignorance of the American Church about the rising persecution of Indian Christians which, in many ways, allows it to continue and increase in darkness.
The #RSS-#BJP are ideologically committed to eradicating Christianity from India. Whether in the form of #RSS mobs attacking churches or #BJP governments passing laws criminalizing religious conversion, they are presently hell-bent on enacting that ideological goal.
I beg you, @ArchbishopFoley, in the name of our Christ Jesus and as a communicant under your authority, to reject sharing a platform with the Prime Minister of a country who is actively persecuting our brothers and sisters in the faith. In humility. +
Thank you, @ArchbishopFoley, for confirming that you are not attending and had not even planned to. @gafconference, is there any legitimacy to this flyer? Do you know that it exists and is being passed around? Is GAFCON doing this? If not, please note misuse of your name.
@frandrewgross, I would humbly request your input on this.
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Jesus Christ commanded Christians, as the fundamental practice of faith in Him, to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, befriend strangers, clothe the naked, care for the sick, & visit those in prison.
His final command before ascending to Heaven was to go throughout the whole earth to teach people about this message of loving Him by loving one another. He said that people would know that we follow Him because of this display of love.
This is the foundational teaching of the Christian Church. When #RSS-#BJP sponsored legislation bans conversion based off “inducement” or “allurement,” it essentially criminalizes the practice of the Christian Faith.
There is 0 evidence that any forced conversion has ever taken place in the independent Republic of India – except, occasionally, of religious minorities to Hinduism – & masses of evidence that both Christian & Muslim leaders in modern India seek only sincere, genuine conversion.
“Conversion,” within the orthodox & prevailing understandings of both Christians & Muslims, means a change of heart & mind within the person converting. It is not an act done to them but an act which they do. It may be taught, but only in the hope that the teaching is accepted.
“Conversion” is done by the individual, of their own free & genuine will.
A “conversion ceremony” is performed by the religious authorities of whatever religion.
But no one, within orthodox Christianity or Islam today, is “converted” – rather, THEY choose to convert.
@mrubin1971, acting with academic disingenuity, attempts to prove that Pakistan's ISI is running a global campaign to promote vaccine hesitancy by using a SINGLE example: that I protested a donation to Sewa International, an affiliate of India's #RSS paramilitary.
@mrubin1971, whatever his questionable motives may be, certainly must possess the basic knowledge that proving a broad claim requires referencing more than a single data point.
Thus, for instance, I can authoritatively claim that Christians in India face extreme and growing persecution because there are countless examples of speeches by Hindu nationalists, laws passed, and an actual pattern of attacks to point to as evidence proving the thesis.
#RSS4Punjab means disaster, violence, & eradication of the unique call to liberty & equality of the Sikh faith whose holiest shrine, Harmandir Sahib, stands in Amritsar, Punjab. The highest earthly body of the Sikhs, the Akal Takht, stands openly & boldly against the #RSS.
In October 2019, reacting to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement that India is a Hindu nation, Akal Takht Jathedar (leader) Harpreet Singh called for a ban on the organization, explaining, “What the RSS is doing will create divisions in the country.”
Within the Sikh community, the Sangh has been sowing division since its inception. Its chief tactic is to deny the existence of Sikhi as a separate religion. Despite outcry from the Panth, the Sangh insists Sikhs are nothing more than another variety of Hindu.
When @IrvingPD welcomed & honored @hssusa, did they know that HSS is the international wing of the fascist #RSS paramilitary – or that “the police are with us” has been the bone-chilling chant raised in every major anti-minority pogrom staged by RSS in India in the past 20 years?
That was the bone-chilling chant raised by the stormtroopers of the #RSS as they streamed out into the streets of Gujarat, India in 2002 to systematically slaughter thousands of Indian Muslims — raping, dismembering, and burning them alive while….
I believe in the principles of the US Declaration of Independence. The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The right of the people to be governed only by a government to which they consent.
I believe in freedom. Freedom means no one controls you or orders you to do things without your consent. Freedom means you can choose to live your life as you please as long as you don’t hurt others or break your contracts with them.
I believe in liberating the oppressed. Central to that is protecting the minority of the population from being tyrannized by dictates imposed by the majority. Liberation cannot be purely political, though. It must be cultural and social. It must be grassroots.