Crusade Watch Syndication http://www.crusadewatch.org Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:55:17 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1078&Itemid=30 source:  Huffington Post, March 24, 2010 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clay-naff/bible-vs-quran-the-evolut_b_511080.html) Clay Farris Naff Science Writer, Editor, Broadcaster, and Blogger Barbara Bradley Hagerty, National Public Radio's religion correspondent, ruffled some feathers last week when she posed this question: is the Bible more violent than the Quran? Evangelism War Plan - What is Christian Jihad? Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:41:49 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1069&Itemid=91 source:  Los Angeles Times, March 27, 2010 (http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/27/opinion/la-oe-rutten27-2010mar27) Tim Rutten  By lashing out at the coverage of the sexual abuse scandal, the Roman Catholic Church shows it has learned little from the squalid affair.   This has been a tough Lent for the Roman Catholic Church. Its seemingly endless sexual abuse scandal finally has seeped into the papal apartments, and the Vatican's response to this week's revelations suggests that far too little has been learned from this squalid affair. Crime Tracker - Sex Abuse Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:31:49 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1068&Itemid=57 source:  WashingtonPost, March 4, 2010 (http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/ramdas_lamb/2010/03/missionaries_the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly.html) Ex-Hindu monk, professor Ramdas Lamb Hindu monk in India from 1969-1978. Professor, University of Hawai’i, world religions and contemporary American religion Q: Is there a problem with proselytism overseas by U.S. religious groups? Isn't sharing one's faith part of religious freedom? When does it cross the line into manipulation and coercion? Missionary proselytization has been an integral part of the two main prophetic religions, Christianity and Islam, since early on in the formation of each. It is precisely the reason they are the two largest religions in the world. It is also one of the darkest and most sinister aspects of religion and one of the main reasons so many people have a negative view of anything to do with religion. The basis and justification for proselytization is an extremely narrow minded and arrogant assumption: My religion is the only right one, I have the only truth, all other religions are wrong, and it is my duty to get others to think and believe like me. This belief has been used by Christians and Muslims for more than a millennium to justify the seduction, coercion, torture, and even murder of countless individuals in trying to get them to convert.   Why people oppose Evangelism? - Evangelism is religious intolerance Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:50:08 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1053&Itemid=128 Why Nothing has Changed for Victims of Church Torture, or for the Victimizers By Rev. Kevin D. Annett It’s worse now, because I’m supposed to be healed. They get away with everything and I’m still here on the corner. -- Bingo, a homeless native survivor of Catholic Indian Residential schools, Vancouver, August 10, 2009 CrusadeWatch Columnists - Tim Mitchell Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:45:49 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1052&Itemid=128 source: Huffington Post, April 21, 2009 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-tarico/does-evangelical-giving-d_b_187552.html) Valerie Tarico This week, Barack Obama is expected to sign into law the GIVE Act (http://edlabor.house.gov/blog/2009/03/the-generations-invigorating-v.shtml), which aims to increase volunteering. It gives young people a way to pay for education with public service. Some right wingers have been squawking because the plan excludes religious activities like church attendance and outreach from the social service hours that can be applied for credit. Personally, I'm relieved. I want my taxes to pay for programs with clear benefits, and I want the wall separating church and state repaired. But before we secular types get all high and mighty we should take a look at why some people think that faith-based programs are necessary for the good of society. CrusadeWatch Columnists - Valerie Tarico Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:11:50 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1022&Itemid=57 source: TimesOfIndia, 2 Feb 2009 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/ABVP_activists_ransack_missionary_school_over_national_anthem/articleshow/4065792.cms) BHOPAL: Protesting against the alleged insult to the National Anthem  in a missionary school in the Govindpura area of the city, Ahkhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) workers today created ruckus in the school by indulging in violence, police said. Why people oppose Evangelism? - Evangelism promotes anti-Nationalism Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:45:15 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=999&Itemid=128 - Dr T H Chowdary Jesus Christ, according to Gospel of Luke [in the New Testament Chapter 12] said: 51 “Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. 52 “For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three. 53: “Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother. CrusadeWatch Columnists - Dr T Hanuman Chowdary Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:45:41 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=998&Itemid=128 Dr T H Chowdary The weeks-long Hindu Christian riots in Kandhamal District of Orissa and similar incidents in Karnataka are not unlikely to be repeated in Andhra Pradesh very soon. In Orissa and Karnataka the riots are precipitated by the intensive, aggressive, extensive activities of hundreds of missionary organisations with thousands of fulltime, well-paid propagandists and agents. In Kandhamal District, alone there are 350 missionary organisations funded from all quarters of the world. They are engaging lots and lots of unemployed people, to inveigle poor and uneducated Hindus into Christianity by monetary rewards, given in installments related to the number of people that these full-time marketers of Christianity are able to convert. Aiding them are the fifth columns of a number of NGOs with enticing names, all funded by Christian missions from abroad? The fact that in Kandhamal District alone the Christian population has increased from 6 percent in 1970 to 27 percent in 2001, despite an Act enacted by Orissa Legislature in 1967 to prevent conversion shows the intensity of the multinational conversion, [MNC] enterprises marketing and financial clout. CrusadeWatch Columnists - Dr T Hanuman Chowdary Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:39:19 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=966&Itemid=142 (Editor's note: Read the last paragraph, which mentions about involvement of Christian militants ) source: Daily Pioneer, August 25, 2008 (http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=front%5Fpage file_name=story5%2Etxt counter_img=5) Orissa bandh today; schools, colleges to remain closed Naveen announces judicial probe, ex-gratia Widespread anger was expressed throughout the State over the brutal killing of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his associates. Christian Terrorism - India Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:29:57 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=947&Itemid=41 (CrusadeWatch note:  It is unfortunate that in a state where  people cannot even afford square meals a day, the Government headed by a Christian fundamentalist chief minister is misusing people's money to  pay each Christian pilgrim to visit Jerusalem.  The amount paid to each Christian visitor is enough to  feed a poor child for 2 years) source:  Deccan Chronicle, June 15, 2008 (http://www.deccan.com/City/Citynews.asp#Rules%20set%20for%20Christian%20yatra) Hyderabad,  June 14: State government is finalising the guidelines to Holy Land Yatra to Israel for Christians on the lines of Haj Pilgrimage. Only white card holders are to be made eligible under the scheme for which government earlier gave the nod for financial. The Minorities Welfare Department will be soon coming out with the guidelines after consultation with AP Federation of Churches sources said. Christians holding white cards will be given preference on first cum first serve basis and those who are above 50 years will be given financial assistance. Law,Governments vs Evangelism - Countries for Evangelism Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:47:41 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=944&Itemid=128 “They are proselytizing not on behalf of the Constitution of the United States . . . but rather on behalf of some sort of fanatical view of end times. And they are using our army to affect that.”
 -Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson-   Last August the watchdog group, Military Religious Freedom Foundation, foiled a Pentagon plan that would have allowed the shipment of “freedom packages” to soldiers and Marines in Iraq. The parcels were put together by the fundamentalist Christian ministry, Straight Up, and contained Bibles, proselytizing tracts in English and Arabic, and the apocalyptic “Left Behind” computer game, in which Christian Tribulation forces convert or kill infidels—nonbelievers, Muslims and Jews. CrusadeWatch Columnists - Robert Weitzel Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:41:15 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=936&Itemid=128  By Robert Weitzel For twenty-four years the archconservative, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith—formerly the Holy Office of the Inquisition. As the Vatican’s doctrinal watchdog, he earned the monikers, “God’s Rottweiler” and “panzer cardinal.” It was his job to enforce doctrinal purity, both within the clerical rank and the rank and file . . . a task he performed with an apostolic zeal bordering on mania. CrusadeWatch Columnists - Robert Weitzel Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:29:49 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=930&Itemid=128 Haran BR Eraiyur is a small village in Villupuram District of Tamil Nadu. This village is dominated by the Vanniyar (Backward Class) community (around 20,000 people) and some 2000 Harijans (Scheduled Castes) are also living there. The Catholic Church has converted both the communities long time back and it has also established the Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, supposedly in the 17th Century. CrusadeWatch Columnists - Haran BR Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:51:37 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=929&Itemid=128 Robert Weitzel  “By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice.” Hebrews 11:17   This Easter Sunday, 11-year-old Kara Neumann of Weston, Wisconsin, died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a curable condition. While Kara was bedridden suffering waves of nausea and vomiting and excessive thirst and could not talk, her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, knelt in prayer and refused to seek medical treatment.  CrusadeWatch Columnists - Robert Weitzel Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:38:54 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=928&Itemid=128 Harendra De Silva    Christian evangelists are on a roll in Sri Lanka. During the past few decades many reactionary Christian organisations originating in the west have swept into Sri Lanka with the single aim of converting all non-Christians to Christianity. Having arrived in a third world country, their reasoning is that all niceties and norms of decency can be dispensed with; evangelism is carried out through whatever means necessary without any thought for the consequence, even if this means creating a religious conflict. Sri Lanka must be on high guard if she is to preserve her religious harmony, for looking around the world it can be seen that religious conflict has not been far behind wherever Christian evangelists have set up shop. CrusadeWatch Columnists - Harendra De Silva Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:36:04 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=925&Itemid=128 Robert Weitzel Safa Abu Saif, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl, was visiting a friend’s apartment when the bullet fired from an Israeli rifle slammed into her chest, punching a gaping exit wound in her back. No ambulance could reach her because of the fighting. Safa died in her father’s arms three hours after being shot. CrusadeWatch Columnists - Robert Weitzel Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:08:51 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=914&Itemid=128 By Harendra De Silva The world (or more correctly, the west) appears infatuated with Muslim fanaticism. We are told over and over again that Islam preaches fanaticism, and that Muslims are allegedly violent and have a blind hatred of non-Muslims. But really, how true are these vacuous claims? They are stories made to justify violent attacks on the Muslim community around the world, and take attention away from those who really harbour ill-will against followers of other religions. The media has not given enough attention to the insidious campaign that is taking place this very minute to reduce and wipeout Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and the various other religious traditions that are followed by large sections of humanity. CrusadeWatch Columnists - Harendra De Silva Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:12:34 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=904&Itemid=128 On December 25th when the whole world was celebrating the birth of the Jesus Christ, churches were burning in Gujarat. As per confirmed estimates 11 churches had been burnt. On December 27th Religious leaders in the national capital expressed their anguish over the continuing attacks on the churches in Orissa, saying violence in any form in unacceptable. But something that which really bothered me was one of the statements, by Swami Shantatmanand – Secretary of Ramakrishna Mission in New Delhi – published in Indian Express that which read ‘Hinduism teaches us to respect and acknowledge the validity of all other religion.’ I am yet to understand as to why was he saying so? Or what made him to make that statement? Is he trying to portray that some Hindus had done those deeds? But how can you say without investigation is complete and report is out? CrusadeWatch Columnists - Mahesh Prabhu Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:15:55 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=900&Itemid=142 source: Organiser, Jan 13, 2008 (http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content pa=showpage pid=219 page=6)  By Debasis Tripathy in Bhubaneswar The attack over the revered Swamiji opens the Pandora’s box of missionary activities in Kandhamal district. On the eve of Christmas day, the Christians made a decorative tent for the worship of Jesus Christ. It was forcefully built over a Hindu puja mandap, over which Hindus used to worship Goddess Durga. This misdeed of the missionaries was strongly protested by the local Hindus. Christian Terrorism - India Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:57:02 +0100 http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=899&Itemid=128 The arrival of East India Company and the subsequent British regime have been the launch pad for foreign Christian missionaries to land in India and establish themselves. They penetrated in to the far wide of the country in the guise of focusing on Education Health Care sectors to help the poor downtrodden of the country. The Indian leaders, who were fighting for the freedom lost focus on the penetration of these missionaries. After the so-called independence, the Indian leaders made two biggest blunders, one, not getting rid of the British system of education and scheme of things and two, prepared a Constitution based on the British version. The Nehruvian Secularism took over from the British Imperialism for the detriment of the country in general and majority community in particular, and for the benefit of the minorities, who have been enjoying undue privileges through blatant misuse of the Constitution and the consequent amendments brought by the pseudo-secular governments. CrusadeWatch Columnists - Haran BR Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:51 +0100