Hardliners vandalize Gideons Worldwide stall, at New Delhi World E book Truthful over free Bibles

A gaggle of Hindu hardliners allegedly vandalized a Christian e book stall on the prestigious New Delhi World E book Truthful in India’s capital, objecting to the distribution of copies of the Holy Bible. 

The stall, run by The Gideons Worldwide in India, a Protestant Christian non-profit group, was focused on March 1 on the thirty first version of the e book truthful, thought-about a significant calendar occasion within the publishing world.

“Impulsively, round 40 males got here, sporting saffron scarves and a tilak [an ornamental spot worn on the forehead mainly by Hindus] and started shouting: ‘Free Bible bandh karo, dharam parivartan bandh karo [stop distributing free copies of the Bible, stop religious conversion]. Jai Shree Ram [hail Lord Ram]’,” David Philip, a member of The Gideons Worldwide in India, informed UCA Information on March. 2.

“Considered one of them pushed me and I fell down on a chair. A few of them even picked up the Holy Bible and threatened my colleague and me to cease the free distribution of the copies,” he mentioned.

“For the previous 10 years, we’ve been attending the e book truthful in New Delhi and there have been no such issues. It was stunning and we nonetheless really feel a way of concern in our minds however pray that the occasion might move peacefully,” Philip added.

The New Delhi World E book Truthful, organised by the state-run Nationwide E book Belief and supported by the India Commerce Promotion Group, an company below the Ministry of Commerce tasked with selling the nation’s exterior commerce, began on Feb. 25 in New Delhi and ends on March 5. The nine-day mega occasion, wherein 30 international locations and over 1,000 publishers and exhibitors are participating, was opened by India’s Minister of State for Schooling Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh.

Philip mentioned that there have been completely different religious and spiritual e book stalls, however solely The Gideons Worldwide, an evangelical affiliation of Christian professionals, was focused. 

Like different religious books stalls on the truthful, we additionally had posters that mentioned “Free Holy Bible” which have been broken by the protesters. They accused us of changing individuals, he mentioned. 

Later, police arrived and requested us to file a grievance. Nonetheless, as directed by our head workplace, we didn’t observe it up, Philip mentioned. 

Pastor Ashok Mashih, who runs a Christian e book stall on the truthful, informed UCA Information that the protesters additionally got here to his store and warned him towards promoting or distributing the Bible.

They accused us of changing poor Hindu households, Mashih mentioned.

Pandit Ram Prasad, who runs a Hindu religious e book stall, mentioned, “No matter has occurred is unlucky. It offers the fallacious message to the world. Hope the administration takes discover of it.”

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