The Gujarat Police has detained Missionaries, an organization set up by Mother Teresa under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2003, for allegedly “hurting Hindu religious sentiments” and “luring young girls towards Christianity” at a shelter home in Vadodara city. Booked off charity. ,
Responding to the allegation, the organization has denied all the allegations. The FIR was lodged at Makarpura police station on Sunday by District Social Defense Officer Mayank Trivedi, who, along with the district’s child welfare committee chairman, had visited a home for girls run by the Missionaries of Charity in Makarpura area in December. 9.
In the FIR, he said that during his visit, he found that the girls at home were being “forced” to read Christian religious texts and participate in their prayers, with the intention of “converting them to Christianity”.
According to Indian Express (IE) report, the FIR reads, “Between February 10, 2021 and December 9, 2021, the institution has been intentionally and bitterly involved in activities intended to hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus… Inside the girls are being lured into converting to Christianity by wearing crosses around their necks and forcing them to read the Bible by placing the Bible on the storeroom table used by the girls … it is forced to convert An attempt to commit a crime on girls.” The local police has started investigation into the matter.
A spokesperson for the Missionaries of Charity told IE that while they are not involved in any religious conversion activity, there are 24 girls in the house, who live with them and follow their practices as they see them do. “We have not converted anyone or forced anyone to marry into Christianity,” the spokesman said.
Officials probing the matter said that as per the complaint, the organization forced a Hindu girl to marry into a Christian family as per Christian tradition and further alleged that she was served non-vegetarian food despite being a Hindu. Assistant Commissioner of Police SB Kumawat said the district collector had issued directions to register a case against the organization after a committee probed the allegations made by Trivedi.
The committee was constituted by the District Collector after the complaint of the Child Welfare Committee. A team comprising members from several departments investigated the allegation, following which a complaint was registered. The police will investigate the allegations and collect evidence to see if the arguments are true,” Kumawat told The Indian Express.
Vadodara Police Commissioner Shamsher Singh told IE that the police have started a probe into the alleged conversion of a woman from Punjab, which has been taken up by the committee. However, investigation is going on in this matter.
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