{"id":8555,"date":"2009-12-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/12\/indian-christians-pledge-to-avoid-aggressive-proselytizing\/"},"modified":"2009-12-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T12:00:00","slug":"indian-christians-pledge-to-avoid-aggressive-proselytizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/12\/indian-christians-pledge-to-avoid-aggressive-proselytizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Christians Pledge to Avoid Aggressive Proselytizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucanews.com\/2009\/12\/08\/christians-reject-aggressive-proselytizing\/\">www.ucanews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANGALORE, INDIA, December 8, 2009: Christian groups have agreed to avoid aggressive evangelization methods in Karnataka, a southern Indian state where religious violence continues to occur. About 250 leaders from 11 Churches and denominations endorsed the agreement at a Dec. 1 meeting organized by the Karnataka United Christian Forum for Human Rights in Bangalore, the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>Participants resolved not to condemn or denigrate Deities of other religions, or the traditions that other religious believers hold as sacred. &#8220;The beauty of our faith is tarnished and not enhanced when we denigrate others,&#8221; says their memorandum of understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Jesuit Father Ronnie Prabhu, convener of the forum, told UCA News the document participants drew up would help them &#8220;follow a common minimum ethic and collaborate in a common plan of action.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.ucanews.com BANGALORE, INDIA, December 8, 2009: Christian groups have agreed to avoid aggressive evangelization methods in Karnataka, a southern,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}