Author: UNI
Publication: The Tribune
Date: June 26, 2006
URL: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060627/nation.htm#6
[Note from the Hindu Vivek Kendra: The impertinence
of the Christian missionaries is truly astounding. It seems to me that they
want to deliberately provoke the Hindus into a reaction. And when the reaction
happens, the secularists will heap calumny against those who react, while
upholding the alleged rights of the missionaries.]
Four nuns were arrested from the premises
of Sri Venkateswara Ruia Government Hospital on charges of alleged proselytism.
According to hospital sources, the nuns, who
visited the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) funded government hospital,
asked the patients of their names and details to perform 'healing prayers'
in a local church last night.
The hospital staff and attendants asked the
nuns not to indulge in such an act and leave the premises.
This was the third incident. On two earlier
occasions, nuns had indulged in evangelical activities in Tirumala hills and
at the Sri Venkateswara University.
Based on separate complaints made by the hospital
superintendent Abdul Salam and duty doctors, the Alipiri police arrested the
nuns, the sources added.
The Specified Authority, the highest decision
making body of the TTD, had urged the state government, two days ago to enact
a law prohibiting propagation of any religion or faith on the sacred hills
of Tirumala except Hindu Dharmic activities and Venkateswara Vaibhavam.
The authority also sought a penal provision
for violation of the proposed law with imprisonment upto two years and Rs
2,000 as fine.
Meanwhile, activists of BJYM, BJP and Dharma
Parirakshana Samithi (DPS), staged a dharna in front of the Hospital Superintendent
chamber, protesting against the alleged 'conversion' activities.
