{"id":9117,"date":"2010-05-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/31\/india-christian-schools-protest-proposed-law\/"},"modified":"2010-05-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T12:00:00","slug":"india-christian-schools-protest-proposed-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/31\/india-christian-schools-protest-proposed-law\/","title":{"rendered":"India Christian Schools Protest Proposed Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/pr\/fr\/-\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/8697635.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, May 2010: Christian schools in the Indian city of Mumbai have opposed a proposal by civic authorities to promote Hindu culture in classrooms. They argue that plans to introduce what they call &#8220;Hindutva culture&#8221; into missionary schools is unconstitutional and unfair. A proposal to include Hindu culture in the curriculum of those schools is now being considered by the Maharashtra state government. <\/p>\n<p>The body which runs the 150-odd Christian schools in Mumbai is now preparing to take legal action. Archdiocesan Board of Education (Abe) General Secretary Gregory Lobo told the BBC that his schools &#8220;promoted respect for all faiths and there is no need to focus on a particular faith.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Abe schools receive financial help from the Mumbai Municipal Corporation, which put forward the new proposal during a review of financial help given to these schools. A right-wing Hindu coalition comprising the Shiv Sena party and the Bharatiya Janata Party runs the corporation. <\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: Considering the goals and methods of most missionary activities in India, the statement that &#8220;there is no need to focus on a particular faith&#8221; is blatantly misleading. Those schools focus heavily on one faith, the Christian faith of the missionaries. Introducing studies about Hindu culture would not promote Hinduism, but rather balance &#8212; to some extent &#8212; the continuous inculcation of Christian beliefs.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news.bbc.co.uk MUMBAI, INDIA, May 2010: Christian schools in the Indian city of Mumbai have opposed a proposal by civic,&#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-9117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117","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=9117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}