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DECEMBER 22, 1956.
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HINDU LEADERS CALL FOR
END OF MISSIONER ATTACKS
(Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News
Service)
NEW DELHI, India,—A state
ment calling for an end to “irre
sponsible and unfair criticisms”
against missionaries in India has
been issued by a group of Hindu
leaders here.
The Hindus say that .they have
been “pained” to notice a ten
dency to indulge in “indiscrimi-
nate and extravagant attacks” on
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neighbor if one lets him die of
hunger. Besides, no spiritual or
cultural life is possible without
a minimum of material comfort
and security, the prelate declared.
At the same time, the Bishop
made clear that missionaries were
not buying converts by taking
interest in their temporal welfare.
He said: “But, if people see men
missionaries and their activities.
Sometimes, these attacks have al
so taken in their sweep our coun
trymen who are Christians, the
leaders declared.
The leaders, paid tribute to the | devoting themselves selflessly
“high standards of integrity and and whole-heartedly to their well-
public service” generally main- being and believe in these men
tained by Christian missionaries; and des ire to adhere to their
in this country.
religion in which they see true.
Heading the signatories to the charity practiced as well as
statement were three members of preached, are they not at liberty
the Indian Parliament, including to do so?”
Dr. A. Krishnaswamy, who re- j Bishop Sevrin hit back at the
cently drew up a special United argument that illiterate persons
Nations report on foreign mis- were no t capable of choosing a
sionaries, and Dr. P. Sybbarayan, re ii g i 0 n. He pointed out that re
chief Minister of Madras before ii g i on was meant for all persons
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It is useless to say, the Bishop
pointed out, that one loves one’s
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he entered Parliament.
Others were Mayor
Chandras Ghosh
Jadunath Sarkar,
chancellor of Calcutta University,
B. V. Narayan Reddy, general
manager of the Bank of Mysore,
P. Parija, vice chancellor of Ut-
kal University, Teja Singh, retir
ed chief justice of the Punjab
high court and Sheriff Surendra
Nath Sen of Calcutta.
The immediate reason for the
statement was a spate of anti
missionary outbursts, paticularlv
in North India, following the pub
lication of the Madhya Pradesh
report on missionaries. The docu
ment, prepared by an all-Hindu
committee, charged that
evangelization jn India was part
of a world policy for reviving
“Christiandom” in order to re
establish Western supremacy.
The Catholic position was spel
led out in a memorandum pre
sented the Madhya Pradesh
committee by Bishop Oscar Sev
rin, S. J., of. Raigarh-Ambikapur.
The document was not mentioned
by the committee in its report.
Bishop Sevrin repu d i a t e d
charges of fraudulent conversions.
For Catholics, the Bishop de
clared, conversions without faith
have no meaning at all and forc
ed conversions are a crime again
st men and against religion. The
Bishop explained that the life of
missionaries was inspired by the
love of God and t h e love of
Christ which prompted them to
spend their lives for the propa
gation of the ideals and thoughts
dear to them.
Explaining why missionaries
interested themselves in the ma
terial well-being of the people,
Bishop Sevrin said that economic
and cultural needs .were insepa-
and not for the cultured ones
only. In fact, it is the poor and
of Calcutta, j the down-trodden who are most
former Vice in need of the consolations of
religion, he said.
The prelate declared: “The on
ly method consistently used by
Catholic missionaries among the
tribals has been to identify them
selves with them, to live among,
them whenever allowed to do so,
treat them as men endowed with
common sense and to try to
bring about their all-round social
cultural and spiritual uplift, and
after their conversion, when cir
cumstances permitted it, to see
to the educational and economic
progress of the Catholic com
munity which had been created
by the spontaneous and delibe
rate movement of sincere and
free conversions.”
Bishop Sevrin also listed what
he called cases of harassment of
missionaries. He mentioned:
—The “bewildering campaign”
of slanders and calumny of Cath
olic missionaries carried on by
the Ram Rajya Parishad, a fan
atic Hindu group.
—The broadcasting of fake
charges against missionaries over
the government-owned All-India
Radio.
—The “wanton invasion” of the
premises of the Catholic mission
at Ambikapur by a small group
of communalists.
The prelate charged that in all
these cases local officials were
guilty of dereliction of duty in
not protecting the Christian min*
ority against the assault of the
majority.
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