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Mission(ary) Targets: Thirumala, Sabarimala and then entire India ??
It was alleged that the vice-chancellors of Padmavathy and Venkatesware Universities are putting pressure on students to convert, else the students wouldn't get their doctorates ? Are they vice-chancellors or missionaries ? Is the Andhra Govt headed by Dr Y. Samual Rajasekar Reddy (not many know his full name) pushing the agenda of the missionaries through the universities by appointing such people as Vice-Chancellors ?
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Seers to discuss missionary activities 7/4/2006 2:32:10 AM
- By Bhaskar Hegde
Bangalore, July 3: Sri Vishwesha Tirtha Swamiji of the Pejawar Mutt on Monday announced that the pontiffs of Hindu mutts would meet in Tirupati on July 15 to discuss the activities of Christian missionaries, including attempts to convert Hindus in Tirumala and Tirupati.
The swami, while speaking to reporters, said it was disturbing that Christian missionaries had selected these places to carry out conversions. "We will meet in Hyderabad on July 11, and then in Tirupati on July 15, to chalk out our course of action," he said. He was speaking after receiving a report from a fact-finding committee on this issue and sent by him to Tirupati. The committee visited Tirumala and Tirupati last month and held meetings with people there before preparing the report, he disclosed.
"As a Hindu saint, I am worried about the conversion activity taking place there, which was why I constituted the committee to look into the matter," he said.
Mr D. Bheemasena Rao, the convenor of the Tirumala Tirupati Samrakshana Samithi, said the July 15 meeting is likely to chalk out a mass awareness programme against conversion. Retired Andhra Pradesh director-general of police T.S. Rao, who was a member of the fact-finding committee, claimed that 15 to 20 families in Tirumala have been converted in the past two years. He alleged that the vice-chancellors of the Padmavathy and Venkateshwara Universities were using coercive methods to convert students to Christianity. "During public interactions, we were told that students who had enrolled for PhDs were being pressured to convert. They have even been told that they would not get their doctorate unless they converted," he claimed.
Dravida University former vice-chancellor R. Srihari maintained that Christian missionaries had chosen some important places of worship in Andhra Pradesh as part of their strategy, which was why they had moved to Tirumala and Tirupati for this exercise.
It was alleged that the vice-chancellors of Padmavathy and Venkatesware Universities are putting pressure on students to convert, else the students wouldn't get their doctorates ? Are they vice-chancellors or missionaries ? Is the Andhra Govt headed by Dr Y. Samual Rajasekar Reddy (not many know his full name) pushing the agenda of the missionaries through the universities by appointing such people as Vice-Chancellors ?
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Seers to discuss missionary activities 7/4/2006 2:32:10 AM
- By Bhaskar Hegde
Bangalore, July 3: Sri Vishwesha Tirtha Swamiji of the Pejawar Mutt on Monday announced that the pontiffs of Hindu mutts would meet in Tirupati on July 15 to discuss the activities of Christian missionaries, including attempts to convert Hindus in Tirumala and Tirupati.
The swami, while speaking to reporters, said it was disturbing that Christian missionaries had selected these places to carry out conversions. "We will meet in Hyderabad on July 11, and then in Tirupati on July 15, to chalk out our course of action," he said. He was speaking after receiving a report from a fact-finding committee on this issue and sent by him to Tirupati. The committee visited Tirumala and Tirupati last month and held meetings with people there before preparing the report, he disclosed.
"As a Hindu saint, I am worried about the conversion activity taking place there, which was why I constituted the committee to look into the matter," he said.
Mr D. Bheemasena Rao, the convenor of the Tirumala Tirupati Samrakshana Samithi, said the July 15 meeting is likely to chalk out a mass awareness programme against conversion. Retired Andhra Pradesh director-general of police T.S. Rao, who was a member of the fact-finding committee, claimed that 15 to 20 families in Tirumala have been converted in the past two years. He alleged that the vice-chancellors of the Padmavathy and Venkateshwara Universities were using coercive methods to convert students to Christianity. "During public interactions, we were told that students who had enrolled for PhDs were being pressured to convert. They have even been told that they would not get their doctorate unless they converted," he claimed.
Dravida University former vice-chancellor R. Srihari maintained that Christian missionaries had chosen some important places of worship in Andhra Pradesh as part of their strategy, which was why they had moved to Tirumala and Tirupati for this exercise.
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