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Converted Christians criticize church leadership
Publication: The Free Press Journal

Date: March 12, 2001

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The Poor Christian Liberation Movement has criticised the reported move of the Church to keeping the converted Christians in the Dalit category.

R L Francis, President of the PCLM said that ‘It is notable that Church organizations have been demanding that people who converted from SC/ST to Christianity should be kept in separate category in the Census of India.

Alleging the Church leadership for misguiding the converted Christians Francis, said that the Church is not ready to give the reservation in their own organizations, which they have demanding from the Government. If the church is honest about the welfare and development of converted Christians, there is no reason for more than one and half crore Christian population to remain backward, Francis said.

He said that while on the one hand, the Church leadership in collusion with World Council of Churches (WCC) has been spending crore of rupees on programmes like PCR for putting an end to casteism, on the other hand it has been trying to divide the converted Christians into caste system and category by demanding Reservation for them.

He expressed the apprehension that Church is demanding inclusion of converted Christians in the Census of India as separate category with an eye to infiltrate into other SC classes of other communities. But, the converted Christians are not ready to accept the label of, casteism on them. The Church leadership is, in fact trying to do business of casteism in the name of Christianity, he alleged.

 

 

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