Thread by @ranganaathan

2001 Census 2.41 Cr Xtians -2.3% of the total pop. of 2001. 54.34% pop. In 4 states (T N, Kerala, Kar & A P) 29.09% in NE #XtianAttack

Evangelical Estimates -India Missions Association - 4.5 Crore Christians, 1 crore crypto-Christians. #XtianAttack

World Christian Encyclopedia -4.08 Crore Christians and 2.15 crore crypto-Christians #XtianAttack

As per “Annuario Pontifico” 2012 (Annual directory of the Vatican) there are 1.65 Crores (16.5 mil) Roman Catholics #XtianAttack

Church of South India 40 lacs (4 mil) membership; Church of North India (CNI) members 15 lacs (1.5 million) #XtianAttack

Baptist World Alliance 25 lacs (2.5 mil), 7th day activist 15 lacs (1.5 mil) where as UAL Churches 45 lacs (4.5 mil) #XtianAttack

Census pop (projected) in 2011 is 2.81 Cr, Denominational total 3.06 Cr excluding Christians, at least 40 lakh Crypto Xtians #XtianAttack

Catholic Church is organized in 30 Archdioceses (Latin 23, Syro Malabar 5, Syro Malankara 2), #XtianAttack

165 Dioceses (Latin 128, Syro Malabar 29, Syro Malankara 8) #XtianAttack

Church of South India (CSI) has 22 dioceses and 15,000 congregations #XtianAttack

Church of North India (CNI) has 26 dioceses, 4,500 congregations #XtianAttack

Baptist churches in India to be 14,969. #XtianAttack

7th Day Adventists is having 3,987 churches #XtianAttack

United Evangelical Lutheran Churches has 3,331 pastorates or parishes #XtianAttack

Indian Missions Association had 230 missions as members, 20,000 nondenominational churches #XtianAttack

#XtianAttack The Catholic Church: 7,650 primary schools, 4,569 high schools, 1,494 higher secondary schools

321 colleges and 865 various professional educational institutes, including engineering and medical colleges #XtianAttack

CSI: 2,000 schools, 130 colleges and 104 hospitals. There are 50 rural development projects run by the CSI all over India, #XtianAttack

in addition to 50 training centers for young people, and 500 residential hostels for a total of 35,000 children #XtianAttack

Church of North India (CNI) : 9 nursing schools, 250 educational institutions and three technical training centers. #XtianAttack

CNI also runs 65 hospitals spread over 8 regional divisions, which are managed by Synodical Board of Health Services. #XtianAttack

The Seventh Day Adventist : 226 schools and 5 colleges The Total of these entities is: 18,290 #XtianAttack

HR estimates -Catholic: 12,799 Diocesan priests, 9,977 priests, 3,031 brothers, #XtianAttack

77,444 sisters, 3,761 lay missionaries and 43,417 Catechists #XtianAttack

HR estimates - CSI: 22 Bishops, 1,214 priests and 2,000 pastors #XtianAttack

HR estimates -CNI: 2000 pastors #XtianAttack

HR estimates -United Evangelical Lutheran Churches: 1,824 pastors #XtianAttack

HR estimates -Gospel for Asia: 10,000 missionaries #XtianAttack

HR estimates -Indian Missions Association: has employed more than 50,000 persons #XtianAttack

HR estimates -20,000 nondenominational churches: at least 20,000 priests #XtianAttack

HR estimates - Total in all Xtian Denominations : 2,46,000 #XtianAttack

HR estimates -Assuming 10 persons are employed by Church affiliated Institutions: Total: 1,82, 900 #XtianAttack

Managing the “Church Institution” -Study reveals approximately 250,000+ people directly employed by the churches #XtianAttack

huge task force to handle the church controlled activities like edu, institutes, professional institutes and social activities #XtianAttack

#XtianAttack - It requires a super-complex legal structure to handle the activities, managing funds and assets including lands and buildings

Entities with dual registration registered under trust act as well as a coy u/s 25, Archbishop as president and chief trustee. #XtianAttack

#XtianAttack- It becomes very easy for the coy to generate funds, employ people, avail tax and gov benefits and sell/purchase land assets

Nagpur Roman Catholic Diocesan Private Limited” is a company registered under Indian company act, 1913 #XtianAttack

and is also an endowment registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act 1950 with the Archbishop as its Direct Gen&Chief Trustee. #XtianAttack

Church of South India Trust Association is a legal holding body of the properties of the Church of South India. #XtianAttack

The CSI-TA is registered Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act 1956 #XtianAttack

BCTA was incorporated to hold the properties of Baptist Churches, Baptist Unions, and Baptist Missionary Society. #XtianAttack

Bombay Diocesan Trust Association Pvt. Ltd. is a Company incorporated under the Companies Act 1956 #XtianAttack

Bombay Diocesan Trust is also a Trust registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act. #XtianAttack

“Bishop” is the Supreme Authority As Bishop he has powers to: Appoints priests, pastors, brothers, sisters, etc. #XtianAttack

Bishop Decides and manages the salaries of all these. #XtianAttack

Bishop Decides and presides Church functions, defines fees for religious functions, manages Church estates #XtianAttack

As Head of edu institutions a Bishop can: Appoints, transfers, promotes and remove correspondents, HM, teaching staff. #XtianAttack

Bishop Appoints and transfers diocesan / religious priests, brothers and sisters in the diocesan schools. #XtianAttack

Bishop authorizes opening/ closing upgrading / of educational institution monitors the financial administration. #XtianAttack

St. Andrew's Inter College, Gorakhpur is run by Com of Management consists of 16 mem, 9 mem are ex officio mem & 4 nominated. #XtianAttack

Salaries : Vicar: 14,000 to 16000 Per month, Priest: Rs. 7,000 to 10,000 PM, Religious brother or sister Rs. 2,000 – 3,000 PM #XtianAttack

Catechist Rs. 500 – 1,500 PM, Evangelist of CNI: Rs. 2,000-3,000 PM,GFA missionary: Rs. 4,000 – 6,000 PM #XtianAttack

Perks- TA for two wheelers, four wheelers according to grades, Accommodation, % of income from religious functions of Church. #XtianAttack

Dual Employment: Kumar Raja Jospeh is a priest of Tuticorin. At the same time he is Principal, B.Ed. College of Tuticorin. #XtianAttack

#XtianAttack - Fr. Jerald Ravi is the director of 'Pavalam' TV, Tuticorin.

#XtianAttack - In Jhabua, 44 Nuns from 22 various sisters Congregations all over India work in the convents of the diocese

Indigenous funds Sources: Funds collection from Annual religious functions like Second Sundays, Christmas, Good Friday, #XtianAttack

Indigenous funds Sources Easter Sunday, Holy Childhood, Mission Sunday, Peter's Pence, Hunger and Disease, Vocation Sunday. #XtianAttack

#XtianAttack -Indigenous funds Sources -Income from gardens, farms, and teak plantations

#XtianAttack -Indigenous funds Sources- Revenues from the Church properties, land, houses, shops and marriage halls and Parish schools

#XtianAttack -Contribution: Priests who are sent abroad for missions are obliged to pay regular monthly contribution fixed by the Diocese

#XtianAttack -Contribution:10 percent of their monthly income from the employees to the church.

#XtianAttack -Contribution: Contributions from educational institutes

Contribution:-Mizoram is now 90% Christian and now not only exports missionaries but funds also. #XtianAttack

Today the Mizoram Presbyterian Synod Mission Board supports more than 1,700 fulltime workers. #XtianAttack

Contribution: In 2007, Mizoram Presbyterians gave Rs.598,714,400/- ($12.721million U.S.) to the church. 1/2 #XtianAttack

Of this, Rs. 229,069,400/- ($4.9 million U.S.) was devoted to world evangelization. 2/2 #XtianAttack

Foreign funds : 3,014 orgs received more than 1 Cr. for at least one year from 2006-11,1,134 were identified as Christian orgs #XtianAttack

Foreign funds :Together they received Rs. 16,214,96,01,508 (16 thousand 214 Crore) in the period 2006-11. #XtianAttack

#XtianAttack -The “Real Estate” Estimates - Historically land was an integral part of the Church. Church of North India 50,000 Cr.

#XtianAttack -The “Real Estate” Estimates - Church of South India 1 Lakh Cr.

#XtianAttack -The “Real Estate” Estimates Catholic Church real estate greater than CNI and CSI combined together.

The “Real Estate” Examples- In Bangalore, the CSI has the 13 acres land of Bishop Cotton Boys School. #XtianAttack

Add to it schools like Bishop Cotton Girls, Cathedral, St. John’s, churches like St. Marks, St. Andrews, East Parade, Trinity, #XtianAttack

hospitals like CSI, commercial complexes like the CSI Building on Lavelle Road, Unity Buildings on Mission Road #XtianAttack

and the acres surrounding it in CSI Compound and the value of these holdings will cross Rs 15,000 Crores. #XtianAttack

The Malankara Catholic Church in the Mullankolly Panchayat of Waynad district in Kerala has some 45 parishes #XtianAttack

each of which own between three and five acres land. #XtianAttack

It also has what the Coffee Board terms, `a model coffee plantation' at Nambiarkunnu, #XtianAttack

and a 90-acre Coffee and pepper plantation at Kattikulam. #XtianAttack

#XtianAttack -The “Real Estate” Examples-The GFA owns approx. 4500 Acres land including rubber plantations and tourist spots

#XtianAttack -Frauds and Litigations- March 2012 Bishop Baiju Gavit arrested for illegal sell of Church land for Rs. 5.5 Cr.

May 2011, the Crime Branch-CID of the Tamil Nadu Police charge-sheeted the Bishop of CNI in Coimbatore, #XtianAttack

Manickam Dorai, his two brothers, and four other accomplices with defrauding his diocese of over Rs.4,25,00,000 [Rs.4.25 cr.] #XtianAttack

Oct 13 2009, CBI arrested the former General Secretary of the CSI Dr Pauline Sathiamurthy and three members of her family. #XtianAttack

Accused of stealing almost Rs.Rs.8.5 Cr. Of the Tsunami relief fund sent by the Episcopal Church. #XtianAttack

CSI is under investigation for multiple scams & Court has appointed retired Judge to monitor finance #XtianAttack

-Considering India from missionary viewpoint Out of 953 ethnic peoples groups, the gospel has reached to almost 750 groups. #XtianAttack

out of 27,000 pin code areas, 9,000 areas have at least one pastor or Christian worker residing in that area. #XtianAttack

- Portions of Bible are available in more than 203 languages. The complete Bible is available in forty-nine of these languages. #XtianAttack

The unfinished agenda - Just as in the first millennium the cross was planted on the soil of Europe #XtianAttack

and in second on that of the Americas and Africa, we can pray that in the third Christian millennium, #XtianAttack

great harvest of the faith will be reaped in the vast and vital continent… Pope John Paul II, in India (1999) #XtianAttack

The Bishop of the Catholic Church is appointed by the Pope in Vatican City. #XtianAttack

While critics have objected to a functioning structure in India where appointments are made by a person who is not Indian, #XtianAttack

the Catholic Church has always maintained that these appointments are only for ecclesiastical purposes #XtianAttack

However, the information shows that regular funds are collected in India to forward them to Rome. #XtianAttack

In educational institutes run by Christian missions and organizations too, the Bishop acts as a decisive or only authority. #XtianAttack

Does all this fall in to the category of ‘ecclesiastical activities?’ #XtianAttack

Or is there effectively an external state, however nominal it may be, controlling the secular institutes of India? #XtianAttack