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A positive Hindu-Vatican dialogue

Stupendous two days. I’ll never forget these two days lived in love and trust and engaged in Hindu-Christian dialogue.” This is how Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran, president of the Pope’s Council for Inter-Faith Dialogue, Vatican City, described the interaction between Hindu and Christian representat ....Read more

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Missionaries are never trust worthy.By: Nagaraj | Sunday , 21 Jun '09 12:46:25 PM Reply | Forward It is to be noted that these vatican people are very cunning. They are observing that the Hundus are awakening and they want to slow down this process. So they act like they are opposing conversion and they agree with our views, but in fact their action shows that they are not.We should learn from history, how these (British) people cunningly cheated us by favoring one till their work is done and killing the same person once no use from him.We request all our Hindu leaders to continue the effort of awakening Hindus and building the great nation.We can have dialogue with them at the same time we should not disclose our course of action. We are from the land of CHANAKYA and should use at least some of his techniues to safe guard ourselves.Missionaries are never trust worthy.It was so, it is so, it will be so.Keep distance with them.

EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE MUST BE GIVEN IMPORTANCE THAN RELIGIONBy: B SGANESH, BANGALORE | Tuesday , 16 Jun '09 7:48:07 AM Reply | Forward Just as our pliticians are after power by any means most Christian missioneries are after conversion by giving various incentives. One reason for this is our politics is based on religion, caste minority majority instead of uniform treatment of all citizens. It is high time education and health care are given impotance free from corruption so that problems get reduced.B SGANESH, BANGALORE

saba dharma samobhavaBy: shurkumishra | Monday , 15 Jun '09 20:11:56 PM Reply | Forward dear kulkarneejee,it is a welcome step if the non-hindu religious leaders realise that all religions are equal. but it has to be practised in practical field in true spirit. then there is no need of sending huge money from abroad to india on the agenda of conversion. the missionaries should not pressurise the govt for reservation to converted sc and st with the aim of converting more sc/st to christianity.as for u in ur article u mentioned about innocent christians killing but conviniently forgot abut the killing of swami lakshmananda and why he was killed and who r the ppl who killed him. everybody speaks about gujrat but nobody is bothered about godhra killing. by the way have u bothered to write something about kashmiri pandits? preaching is something and practice is something. we all want to live in piece with equal oppertunity to all and favour to none. are u n and ur politicians and the religious leaders will bring ti to practice. we earnestly hope they do.

Conversion - Dialogue with VeticanBy: dhawan | Monday , 15 Jun '09 19:12:40 PM Reply | Forward Proseytization is intrinsic to Christianity. So all promises will soon be broken. There should be a Law agaist conversion and any conversion should be treated as an act of terrorism. Yes it is an attack on the soul and beleif of the person who is converted to other faith. Conversion from Hinduism to Islam for marrying second time without divorcing the first wife is common. Similarly for geting benefits from Christian Institutions has been big allurement for certain people. Both conversions are debased in the eyes of a true relegion and hence should be banned.

A sweet Word and a Gun!By: Rajendra K. Gupta | Monday , 15 Jun '09 8:54:14 AM Reply | Forward Among Christians, proselytizing, from one Christian denomination to another, is a dirty word. There are no heart warming dialogs about it; the rule is just donâ€™t do it. When evangelical ministers began to attract large audiences of Catholics to their sermons in South America, Pope John Paul II attacked them with a venom that would make the VHP leaders blush! If someone should convert a Muslim to Christianity, they would both face certain death. The Jews protest vehemently at any reference to Christ as the saviour. But the Vatican insists on converting the Hindus, as it sees them as a soft target, and bitterly opposes a ban on conversions. It is for the Hindus to convince the predatory religions that their good old days are over. A sweet word and a gun are always more effective than just a sweet word! Sniveling imbeciles like Kulkarni serve as the useful idiots for Christianity and Islam.

India should ban all public display of religious beliefsBy: Jay | Sunday , 14 Jun '09 22:17:19 PM Reply | Forward Public display of religious beliefs must be banned in a secular democracy like India. No Hindu or Muslim or Christian be allowed to block public roads, force other to tolerate noise pollution etc in the name of celebrating religious festivals like Diwali, Eid, Christmas etc. Religious holidays should be under “restricted holidays” list, not a compulsory holiday for everyone. Do our so-called secular political parties have the guts to do something real secular?

Proselytization is intrinsic to Christianity By: Kalyan | Sunday , 14 Jun '09 22:09:35 PM Reply | Forward First of all, the Catholic Church is not the most guilty of conversions in India. There are many other new age and protestant demoninations which are much worse than the Catholic church. Hindus must learn to distinguish between the different strains of Christianity at work in India. Secondly, these new age groups have been 'poaching' christians from the Catholic faith itself, so in some sense the Catholics consider themselves also an aggreived party in this regard. We must also recognize that conversion is central to Christianity, no matter what they say, and whatever nice words they use. Hindus must mobilize legal means to protect themselves. The BJP, RSS and VHP should constitute a legal expert team, to launch numerous cases in the courts of India to inflict damage upon the Converting groups. This would be considered appropriate ways of combating the menace. Attacking Churches, and burning them is a ridiculous retrograde action, that will only earn the Hindus dis-repute.

supprressing skepticismBy: Pratik | Sunday , 14 Jun '09 21:09:28 PM Reply | Forward I am suppressing my skepticism and giving myself a chance to believe when the Cristian delegates said that "forced conversion, and conversion with allurements of any kind, is invalid and rejected".

Inter faith dialogueBy: v subramanian | Sunday , 14 Jun '09 11:55:58 AM Reply | Forward I do not know as to how serious the Christian missionaries are about restraint in conversion of Hindus. The problem is that the Church requires a large critical mass of Christians, like in Kerala, so as to expand their influence in governance and conversion alone can achieve this. Even in Srilanka, the Buddist monks, threatened by conversion, have started pressuring their Government to ban conversions to other faiths mainly Christianity. So long as conversion remains the abiding faith of certain religious groups, interfaith harmony will remain a mirage.

UnstableBy: rohit | Sunday , 14 Jun '09 10:16:07 AM Reply | Forward Kulkarni has lost sanity as his grand scheme failed... Soon he would be writing about his witnessing of good people like Osama

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