Missionaries now targeting innocent Hindu women through emotional and social manipulation

Christian missionaries in Chhattisgarh adopt new tactics for converting Hindus

Raipur (Chhattisgarh) – In several towns and villages of Chhattisgarh, Christian missionaries have reportedly changed their methods of conversion. It has come to light that Christian women preachers are now concealing their true identity while converting Hindus. These women befriend innocent, poor, and distressed Hindu women, gain their trust, and later persuade them to attend prayer meetings where they are coaxed into embracing Christianity.

1. In Korba and Janjgir districts, large-scale conversions of Hindu women and girls are taking place under the guise of prayer meetings. Investigations reveal that those who convert no longer become nuns but continue to use their Hindu names and identities while secretly promoting Christianity in society.

2. To achieve this, Christian women preachers approach poor Hindu women and claim that their problems can be resolved through ‘prayer’. They lure them with emotional and material assurances. Once convinced, these women are taken to churches and made to fill out forms. They are promised that by the ‘blessings of the Lord (Jesus)’, their ailments and difficulties will vanish.

3. Hoping for relief from illness and hardship, these women start visiting churches regularly. Though they receive medical treatment through modern means, the credit is deliberately attributed to ‘the grace of the Lord’. According to investigation reports, around 90 per cent of such Hindu women eventually convert, while 10 per cent refuse when they see no real benefit.

4. Girls aged between 3 and 14 are also being kept in church-run hostels under the pretext of education, where they receive both schooling and systematic Christian indoctrination.

5. State Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Vijay Sharma has announced stringent action against such conversions. He stated that gatherings misleading people under the name of ‘prayer meetings’ must be curbed. The new law will include a separate provision to monitor such activities.

(It is not enough merely to include such provisions in the anti-conversion law; what is needed is a strong, effective mechanism to ensure strict implementation! – Editor)

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Editorial Perspectives

• Such incidents are shocking in a BJP-ruled state like Chhattisgarh. Those involved in religious conversions must be arrested and imprisoned without delay.

• It is due to the lack of Dharma education that Hindus continue to fall prey to the deceitful tactics of Christian missionaries. Hence, acquiring Dharma education has become essential for every Hindu.