Thread by @exC_Esther

The surprise of Christendom at the mention of a possible conversion angle in #LavanyaSuicide case is interesting. Its collective effort to debunk the kid's dying declaration is beyond pathetic.

The church is acting as if missionary schools are not Hindu-soul-harvesting grounds!

Whether or not force to convert is the reason behind a young woman taking her own life, it cannot be ruled out that missionary schools are the breeding grounds for proselytization in gen. & Catholic schools are the places where Catholic institutions get their new nuns from.

Lavanya studied in Sacred Heart Girls' Higher Secondary School, Thanjavur. This school was a missionary effort of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, founded by Mary of Passion in 1877, in Ootacamund, in British India. The Order established many other proselytizing institutions.

The Missionaries of Mary, like every other Catholic org was founded with the sole mission of proselytizing the so-called "Third-world." We know from history that the various fronts they setup to carry on proselytization are schools, hospitals, orphanages and old age care homes.

This women-only proselytizing co. put up a front of "providing medical care to women" who it alleged were kept away from male doctors, due to the alleged practice of purdah. Taking advantage of being women, they penetrated into areas restricted to females.

Purdah in TN in 1800s?

Isn't it interesting that when nuns are made to mandatorily cover (Purdah) their head/legs/arms by the men-led Catholic authority, it is modesty for the glory of their husband, Jesus. But when Indian women covered their heads, it is oppression by their men. #hypocrisy

If serving women in purdah was the only motive of the Missionaries then it was not Indian women that needed their service. Bharat had its own revolutionaries. Muslim countries didn't. Yet, we don't see the missionaries' presence in the ME. At least not in the 1800s. Why?

So, to say that the goal of the Sacred Heart school was converting vulnerable girls and luring them into nunhood by offering them better prospects, would not be an exagerration.

Just curious why all the headmistresses since inception are only Reverends & nuns & no non-priests.

IMO, if the authorities truly intend to probe the conversion angle & not just pretend to, they must question the students that joined in the last 10 yrs; chk how many came in as Hindus & then converted; at what point & why; their fam situation before & after conversion, so on..