It was news to me when I received an email with a link from the North East Reader that the Evangelists are engaged in Child trafficking, moving children way from North east India to the Southern States of India, to get Grants from the Churches!
The Churches in turn get Grants from the Vatican and other Christian Groups Funds marked for religious conversion.
Please read my posts on this under Christianity.
The phenomenon may be new to India.
But it is rampant in Africa and I am providing a Link towards the end of this post.
“New Delhi, Aug 6 : Promising proper education, pastors are trafficking children from the north-eastern states to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka with an oblique motive to get grants from churches and abroad, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights said in a damning report to the Supreme Court.
Inquring into recent rescue of hundreds of children trafficked from the NE states and housed in Homes illegally run by pastors in the southern states, NCPCR found that girls were even asked to give massage to the directors of these Homes and molested.
Analysing the situation in a detailed report, NCPCR said insurgency coupled with the virtual absence of government officials at the sub-district and block level to address the education, health and developmental problems have made the entire north-east an easy hunting ground for middlemen to lure out children from parents in the name of providing them proper education.
“All-out effort are being made by pastors and other category of persons who are reaching out to source areas through middlemen for getting children in order to obtain financial support from churches within the country or donations from outside,” the NCPCR said in response to a direction from the apex court to inquire into the incidents.
The source areas for the pastors are Tamnglong, Senapati, Chandel, Bishnupur, Churachandpur and Imphal in Manipur, North Cachar Hills in Assam and Meghalaya. The destination states are TN, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.
“The main reason for children being sent out by the poor parents to far off places in southern states is due to their high expectation of quality education for their children which is not available at their own places,” the Commission said.
The other main reasons for the parents agreeing to send their children far away were no easy access to schools; lack of basic infrastructure such as road connectivity, power and hospitals; insurgency and lack of a sense of security among parents to send children walking to schools; poor financial status of parents preventing them from putting children in boarding schools; and absence of governance in sub-district and block level to address education, health and developmental problems of vulnerable families.
This provides a perfect opportunity for middlemen to exploit the situation and is being taken advantage of by pastors. But, the children get caught between the devil at home and the deep sea in the Homes in southern states, NCPCR said.
..”The book opens with a literally earth shaking event: the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti and the rush to adopt it engendered. Joyce focuses immediately on the infamous case of Laura Silsby’s band of bible-thumping pseudo missionaries from Idaho who were arrested trying to leave Haiti with 33 children and charged with kidnapping. Silsby and her Reverse Robinhoods felt justified and self-righteous, about taking from the poor to give to the rich, even building a resort in the Dominican Republic for adopters. A fit beginning to describe the zealousness that drives evangelicals to “save” children physically and spiritually.
In the end, many if not most churches dissociated themselves from Silsby after she was charged with kidnaping. The adoption industry and adoption advocates put the incident, like all adoption horror stories, in a neat little box labeled anomalies and continue right along, business as usual simply moving from country as they close adoptions in order to end the corruption. Not unlike claims that women cannot get pregnant from “legitimate” rape, Chuck Johnson at the Saddlebrook Church, argued that claims of fraud had been blown out of proportion, saying: “We have no indication of real, true corruption.”
As a woman was rescued from the collapsed building in the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh, I thought it might be worth looking at some of the Collapsed buildings. To the story first.
‘A woman has been pulled alive from the ruins of a building that collapsed in a suburb of Bangladesh‘s capital, Dhaka, 17 days ago.
The head of the fire service earlier said the woman, named Reshma, had been found in the remains of the second floor of the eight-storey Rana Plaza. She had no serious injuries and had been talking with rescuers, he added. The dramatic news came after the army said more than 1,000 people were now known to have died in the disaster. The death toll is expected to keep climbing, as work crews using heavy machinery have begun removing rubble from the worst-damaged areas.’
Rubble survivor records
Naqsha Bibi – buried for 63 days in what had been her kitchen after 2005 Pakistan quake; survived on rotten food and water
Evans Monsignac – trapped for 27 days in the rubble after 2010 Haiti tremor; stayed alive by drinking sewage water
Park Seung Hyun – pulled from the wreckage of a supermarket in South Korea in 1995, 16 days after it collapsed; drank rainwater
Pedrito Dy – spent 14 days in the ruins of a hotel after the 1990 Philippines tremor; drank water and urine.
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Photographer Shannon Taggart‘s lifelong fascination with the mysterious Haitian religion of voodoo has taken her to a basement apartment in Brooklyn, where she came face to face with people being possessed by mysterious spirits.
What resulted from Taggart’s experience inside the Flatbush temple run by female priest known as Mambo Rose Marie Pierre is a series of captivating photos called Basement Voodoo, which show the members of her small congregation being taken over by the Loa – powerful spirits that mediate between humans and the voodoo deity, Bondye.
Communicating with the Loa requires elaborate preparations specific to each spirit. While some of the Loa are harmless, others are considered wicked or belligerent.
In order to call on any given spirit, a voodoo practitioner has to draw a symbol associated with that particular Loa in cornmeal on the floor, Time LightBox reported.
He is strengthening bonds with democracies like India.
His spontaneous rushing of help including forces to quell disturbances in their hour of need , to Haiti-excellent.
On economy, stimulus package seems to start ed paying dividends.He is also ensuring that benefits of Economy must be distributed by forcing large financial institutions to lend to small companies.
He had chastised fat cats of bail out products for their greed in taking bonuses.
He has been reticent enough to admit that Home land Security has loused up and is attempting to integrate Intelligence agencies.
Well. on a scale of TEN, he scores SEVEN.
We’re back on television on Wednesday to discuss Barack Obama’s first year in office. We’re live on BBC World News at 1530GMT. If you’d like to send us a video (of 60 seconds or under) with your first year report for the President, please email it to this address. We’ll do our best to use any many as we can. Here’s the BBC’s assessment. http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/your-first-year-report-for-pres-obama/#comment-195907
Response of US to crisis in Haiti is very humane and spontaneous.Be it media coverage, which has spurred the world into aid mode;or aid by way of donations;or by extending aid ; sending forces to maintain law and order; rushing in medical aid and supplies.Yes,US has proved it has a large heart.
There are always whiners like spinster sister-in-law who keeps on grouching,neither they will do the job nor can tolerate others doing instead.
These are the numbers: $100 million in aid, 2,000 marines about to join 1,000 of its troops, 14,000 meals and 15,000 litres of water dropped near Port-au-Prince last night.
The American aid effort after the Haiti earthquake follows President Obama’s promise, flanked by his predecessors, of one of the “largest relief efforts in our history”.
But that relief isn’t being welcomed by all …
The latest swipe is from a French government minister, who says the task in hand ”is about helping Haiti, not occupying Haiti”.
There have already been rows between donor countries about access to the capital’s beleaguered airport, including during visits from big-hitting US politicians.
The US military has taken control of the airport, but arguably because someone needed to.
In another WHYS blog conversation on Haiti, one poster, Tom, put it like this:
“Funny how everyone tells the US to mind their own business until disasters like Haiti happen then they do very little or nothing and expect the US to do it all.”
This blog has more examples of America’s work in Haiti.
Without America’s lead, would the aid effort work? Why isn’t the world saying thank you?
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