Religions > Atheism > Christians will help Tsunami victims only if they can convert them
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14 Jan 2005 07:23:00 PM |
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Christians will help Tsunami victims only if they can convert them |
Christian Group Drops Indonesia Orphanage Plan
Reuters logo Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:04 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An evangelical Christian charity has dropped plans
to settle 50 Muslim children orphaned by the Asian tsunami in a Christian-
run home after the Indonesian government blocked the move, the group said
on Thursday.
Virginia-based World Help has raised $70,000 to place Muslim children in a
Christian orphanage near Jakarta. But the group's president, the Rev.
Vernon Brewer said it suspended fund-raising on Wednesday after Indonesia
said Muslim children could not be raised in a non-Muslim home.
"Once we realized that the government was not going to grant permission
yesterday we took that fund-raising appeal off of our Web site," Brewer
said in a telephone interview with Reuters.
The plan drew criticism from Muslim groups which said it would take
advantage of people in a position of need. Many religious charities
prohibit mixing relief efforts with proselytizing.
"This confirms some of our worst fears that certain missionary groups would
exploit the tragedy and the earthquake to enter into these areas and
convert people through use of a disproportionate power relationship," said
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"How many incidents of this type are taking place that we don't hear
about?" Hooper said.
WorldHelp raises money for charity efforts and also seeks to win converts
to Christianity by building churches and distributing Bibles, according to
the group's Web site.
Members of the group "will travel to the country of India, where God is
overcoming hundreds of years of false religions and idol worship," a
message on the Web site said.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Christians will help Tsunami victims only if they can convert them |
15 Jan 2005 01:50:36 AM |
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:23:00 GMT, RobH <Rob@aol.com> said in
alt.atheism:
Members of the group "will travel to the country of India, where God is
overcoming hundreds of years of false religions and idol worship," a
message on the Web site said.
And will convert the members of the group to Hindu belief?
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