Missionaries

US Missionaries Force Sterilisation of the Akha woman

Submitted by Akha on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:40
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Fri, 11/30/2007 - 09:24 — Carried out by North American missionaries, this ethnocide, is an outrage that just has to be stopped, before the extermination of the home less & land less Akha is completed. What kind of a world is this, if we just stand by and allow these so called christians! to get away with this.

Strip converts of quota benefits, demand tribals

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:28
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Ranchi - Jharkhand tribal leaders and priests want immediate stripping of reservation facilities of past members of their community who are now converted Christians.

The tribal group, known as Sarna, has demanded that the reservation facilities provided to tribal Christians be stopped immediately.
The Kendriya Sarna Samiitee (KSS), one of the prominent organisations, has taken the lead in making the demand.

AKHA VOICES - Akha Human Rights - UPDATED WITH FILM

Submitted by Akha on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:14
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The Akha struggle for their human rights in SE Asia. One of the most severe human rights situation for the Akha People is in Thailand.
The Thai government continues to seize Akha land as confirmed in the US Human Rights Report on Thailand for 2005. The Thai government continues to harass Akha Human Rights workers. The Thai government continues to carry out extra-judicial killings of the Akha people.

Modi blasts missionaries at RSS tribal meet - India

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:00
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AHWA: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Saturday criticised Christian missionaries' conversion activities and told a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) meeting here in the Dangs district that the central government had failed to stop them.

"The constitution is against forcible conversion. The state, however, is doing little to stop such conversions," he told a gathering of more than 150,000 RSS activists.
"Mahatma Gandhi too had opposed forcible conversions. If he were alive today and were to say so, they would have lambasted him as well," Modi said.

Chavez Frias order New Tribes missionaries to leave Venezuela

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 18:43
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President Hugo Chávez warned on Wednesday he would deport a U.S. Christian missionary group working among Venezuela’s indigenous peoples, saying the New Tribes Mission had “violated our national sovereignty. Then the President on Wednesday ordered the missionary group, working with indigenous peoples to leave the country after accusing its members of "imperialist infiltration" and spying.

UN WGIP: Statement from the Akha Heritage Foundation

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 16:21
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Main theme “Indigenous peoples and the international and domestic protection of traditional knowledge”

Agenda Item 4:Review of developments
C: Indigenous peoples and conflict prevention and resolution
Main theme “Indigenous peoples and the international and domestic protection of traditional knowledge”

Agenda Item 4:Review of developments
C: Indigenous peoples and conflict prevention and resolution

Statement of the Akha Heritage Foundation, statement read by f P c N Germany, Günter Hermeyer

Dear Chairperson and brothers and sisters:

Biak Misssionaries - destroying the Island

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 12:28
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Once again, we learn that the activities of Missionaries are not what they are supposed to be.

Biak Missionaries Destroy the Natural Environment
On Biak Island in West Papua - -the most christianised (because of ease of access) of West Papua, the missionaries are not content with watering down to almost nothing the traditional culture and beliefs of the Papuans that live in Biak, they want to destroy the natural habitat too in doing so, making sure the peoples will have no choice but to become economic slaves, growing cash crops for cheap exports.

Stop Mission Schools for Tribals in South Palawan!

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 12:09
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Will Christian arrogancy and aggression never end? Why evict tribal people from their forest homelands and force them into mission schools? Life in the forest was perfectly adapted to the natural environment over thousands of generations, and this harmony between man and nature is now being destroyed for progress and development. But progress and development for what? Tribal people, once culturally uprooted by civilization, become the underdogs within the civilized society after a short while. This is the result of a UN recent study.

Missions Insider Report from Christian Aid Mission

Submitted by FdN on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 15:28
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MISSIONS DESTROYS TRIBAL CULTURES AND LEADS TO GENOCIDE

Note: Missions Insider avoids mentioning names that could make the subjects targets of anti-Christian activity. Names of ministries are sometimes mentioned when they are conducting work in areas of religious freedom.

1. Sri Lanka: Falsely Accused
2. China: His Truth Is Marching On
3. Tibet: Faith to Move Mountains
4. Sierra Leone: Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
5. Photo of the Week: Tea Garden Fellowship 1. Sri Lanka: Falsely Accused
Buddhists in Sri Lanka attempt to halt the spread of Christianity.

Missionaries: Conversion IS Violence!

Submitted by rains on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 15:14
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Conversion as practiced by Christian Missionaries IS violence, there is no other accurate definition for it. Missionaries discuss the violent nature of their work in terms like "extraction theology", meaning to tear people out of their culture, communities, alienate them. Some say that this is wrong, but always it is discussed in the more general terms of "missionaries will be missionaries" rather than as the violent act it is.