GHHF Ghar Waapasi in Tirupati Area – Stopped the Illegal Construction of a Church in front of a Grama Devata Temple.
Leo Tolstoy
"If a man can be saved by the redemption, by sacraments, and by prayer, then he does not need good works."
Global Hindu Heritage Foundation has organized the Ghar Waapasi program in many Mandalas near Tirupati. Our Associates K. Reddappa, K. Subbanna, and Rosaiah have been actively involved in visiting a number of villages in various villages and Mandalas in Chittoor District. They talked to the Hindus in the village about our efforts to welcome back to the Hindu field those who converted to Christianity and sought input from Hindu activists.
Stopped Illegal Construction of Church in front of a Hindu Temple
Oteru village in Rural Tirupati Mandal experienced the Christian aggression to construct Church only yards away from the Temple.
In the place opposite to Grama Devata Temple, Christians were trying to build a church in the premises in spite of the objections from the devotees of the Temple. Christians are harassing them and disturbing their worship services and come into the Temple with shoes and asking them to close the Temple.
Whenever the Temple was doing Annadanam, the Christians come in large numbers and walk around with shoes and insulting the Gods. The Christians started building Church in front of the Temple by installing Iron Poles to have coved them with Cement to put the roof on top of it. The Hindus objected to their construction. These Christians were abusive and started beating them up to leave the Temple premise.
Our Pracharaks Sri Reddappa, Sri Subbanna and Sri Rosaiah went to the SC Colony when they come to know we came to know and spoke to the villagers, and we cooperated, and we assured them that they would help them to stop the illegal construction of the church. The villagers told our Pracharaks that if the construction of the church is completed but it would be very dangerous in the future. The Christians came into conflict and confronted the villagers. Other organizations and GHHF cooperated to draft a letter and submitted a letter to Collector, MRO and SP. The officials came and inquired and ordered that the construction of the church in front of the temple be stopped and the site would be given to the temple, and the amount of the site would be given to them.
The villagers are very happy that the construction of the church has been stopped because of our cooperation.
As we mentioned that our mission is twofold: one is how to stop the conversion and the second is how to bring those Christians back to Hinduism They distributed a 4-page document containing the rights of Hindus to encounter Christians and how to stop the construction of illegal churches.
Our Pracharaks talked about the status of women in Christianity. In Hinduism, women are respected and honored. In fact, a mother is considered the first guru for her children. We say Matru Devo bhava. In Hindu scriptures, we find women as Goddesses and worship all of them. We have Lakshmi Devi, Saraswati Devi, and Parvati Devi – the wives of the trinity. We worship them and seek their blessings. Whereas in Christianity there is no concept of Divinity in women. There are no women goddesses. In fact, women are given any recognition in the Bible. They cannot even ask any questions. They have to be silent in the church. They are only subservient to their husbands. If they have any doubts, they only have to ask their husbands and get their queries answered.
The Dharma concept plays a vital role in conducting our way of life. It is everybody’s dharma to perform their activities. Every position in society is valued. Our responsibility is to fight in order to remove adharma. Wherever there is adharma, dharma has to be enforced even if it means waging a war. Inaction is not an option for anyone who upholds the concept of dharma. Arjuna decided not to wage war against his fellow cousin brothers, his Gurus, Bhishma Charya, and otherkin and kith. He was stuck with an amoral conundrum and totally confused about his dharma. He seeks Bhagawan Krishna’s advice. Krishna says that in order to protect humanity from adharma, he has to do what dharma dictates. Bhagawan Krishna says, “Nothing is higher than a war against evil. A warrior such as you should be pleased with such a war, as it leads to heaven Krishna‘s discourses are described in the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad Gita. At the end of his discourses, Krishna successfully convinces Arjuna to fight the battle of Kurukshetra only to eliminate adharma – evil, unrighteousness, deception, and cruelty. As Thomas Paine stated the Bible teaches us to rape and be cruel.
They distributed a 52-page small book and explained the most immoral and indecent statements from the Bible. In Bible, Jesus says that one should not love the world.
While talking to the Hindus, our Pracharaks highlighted the most preposterous statements with regard to incest and sexual promiscuity in the Bible. They read out some verses from Bible and read aloud to sow a few seeds of doubt about what they call the holy Bible.
As many of you are aware that the Christians are moving into the sacred city of Tirupati and its periphery in the Chittoor District. They are planning to start converting within a radius of 50 kilometers. Christians are moving into this area to convert as many people as possible to make Tirupati a sacrilegious place instead of keeping it as a sacred place.
Although many Hindu activists are doing many things, their efforts have not infiltrated into the villages where the conversion is taking place on a large scale. As Hindus concentrate on their intellectual endeavors, Christians are concentrating on conversion. It is time for all the intellectuals and activists to pause for a few minutes and look at the ground realities. Our intellectual endeavors and activists’ protests are not reaching the villages where conversion is rampant. We cannot ignore or turn away from what is happening on the ground.
WE NEED YOUR HELP
We appreciate it if you can help in hiring more people who can go to these villages to do Ghar Waapasi. We have employed 26 Pracharaks working at the ground level. More people we hire more villages can cover to welcome them back and also create Chaitanya (Awareness) among the students and villagers.
1) Donate any amount to help the Dharma Pracharaks to work at the ground level.
2) Sponsor one Pracharak: In order to expand our base and hire one Pracharak, it would cost approximately $3000.00 per year. We have five anonymous donors who sponsored Assistants.
DONATIONS
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By Check: Or you can send a check payable to GHHF, . It is tax-deductible.
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For more information, call Prakasarao Velagapudi at ; Email: ghhfusaorg@gmail.com