Dharma Bhoomi

“Someday, someone is going to tell the last person on earth about Jesus. And we get to go home.” – Bruce Fjarli in Maranatha’s “The Volunteer” 1st Quarter, 2005.

The Adventists claim that 50% of their total membership (of converts) of 1,000,000 come from Andhra Pradesh (current claim of converts in AP is 500,000). The most famous member-supporter of the crusades of the Adventists is Samuel Reddy, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

Shame on Hindus that the TTD (Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam) should accept the “Visesha Vastram” for Bhagawan Venkateshwara during the Brahmotsavam from the hands of this Christian, Samuel Reddy. The entire Hindu Samaj has to atone for this sin, for seven generations, for allowing him into the Parama Pavitra Mandir and for electing him to a position of power so the ‘Visesha Vastram’ is even touched by him. These days he does not hide behind his carefully cultivated crypto-christist image. He is emboldened under the stewardship of his Mother Maino. Gone is his light coat of Hindu camouflage. He will soon be celebrating his 56th birthday (8th July), with his converted family at Bethelham; naturally, after obtaining the blessings from his mother-incarnate, Antonia Mary, oops, Maino.

(Many wrote to me that they never knew he was a Christian, until I urged people openly to refer to his name as Y. SAMUEL RAJASEKHAR and NOT as YSR, because to append the Hindu caste name of a valiant Reddy to a Christian is a shame to all the Reddys). Why should a man who gave up his Gothra, stick to his caste identity?

The names of Ron and Dorothy Watts have become synonymous with conversions in India. If this is the first family of Adventist-adventurism in India, who supports the church construction with finance? While Maranatha Volunteers International sends in droves of locust-volunteers for proselytization and church building activities, who really is behind the fundraising and the construction?

Southern Oregon Builders - A construction company based in Medford, Oregon, USA.

Writing in the Mail Tribune, Paul Macomber says: The skeleton of the final structure in the 76-acre development north of Rossanley Drive and west of Sage Road is now taking shape. EvenFjarli doesn't know how many buildings or how many square feet of industrial space _ certainly well over a million _ he's erected on the site over the past 25 years. The development has 50 tenants and a property tax bill that will top $200,000 this year. Merlin Fjarli kept putting up steel buildings and tenant after tenant kept moving in.

He took this experience to build churches in India so his wife and son could personally convert gulliable Hindus to move into these with ease.

Merlin Fjarli is supported by his two sons, Clint and Bruce. Bruce seems to take fancy in travelling on Tourist Visa to India to construct churches for the neo-converts. And what does the old, bored housewife, Joanne Fijarli do? She travels to India 8 times in three years and assists Ron and Dorothy Watts to convert close to 50,000 people to christianity. Merlin makes money in the USA, Joanne converts people in India and Bruce builds them churches.

Remarkable delegation of responsibility in this family, ain’t it? Maybe, there is more than meets the eye. A symbiotic and a highly profitable relationship between the construction business in USA and the business of constructing churches in India. Great.

During a conversation at the ASI Spring Fellowship, Merlin Fjarli from Medford, Ore., said that when they first went to India in October 2001, they could finance a church, built with the help of Maranatha volunteers, for between $3,500 and $10,000, depending on its size. Today, because of the strength of the rupee and increases in building material costs, a church seating 150 people would cost $5,000, a church seating 250 people would cost $7,500 and a church seating 400 people would cost $11,000.While this is still a bargain by American standards, it is costing more to provide churches for our newly baptized brothers and sisters in India.

A rough estimate at $ 5,000/church X 1000 churches leaves you with a turnover of $ 5 mio. At 1000 churches in 1000 days, $ 5 mio turnover is not bad at all for 1000 days of work. One need not take the cost of land into account because most of these churches are built illegally on Poromboke lands or on Mandir lands. Later, they get the local big-wig to fabricate the documents of ownership. It would be interesting to see how many Mandir lands in AP have been occupied by the Adventists for their church planting business.

Over 62,000 people attended the final meetings of a 100 village outreach project in Kanigiri, India. The outreach meetings were the capstone to a coordinated effort to reach 100 specific villages located in the vicinity of Kanigiri, which is in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

For the past several months, lay Bible workers have been working in each village, coordinating prayer meetings and Bible studies. These Bible workers will stay in each village for at least three years. Meetings were then held in each village by district pastors of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

In February, teams, led by Merlin and Jo Ann Fjarli, joined the local people in visiting people in the villages, praying with them and inviting them to evening meetings. They also dedicated churches constructed by Maranatha. As part of the 100 village program, a new church, or prayer hall, will be constructed by Maranatha in each village.

On the last night of the two-week project, attendance peaked at the six meeting locations as 62,000 people streamed in from the villages. As a result of the local efforts, over 30,000 people chose to become church members. (48% converted)

"We have coordinated many ten village projects and several 50 village projects, but this is the first 100 village project," says Don Noble, Maranatha President. "It has shown us a glimpse of the opportunity that awaits us. Thousands of villages, just like these 100, await the arrival of the Gospel message."

A team of Maranatha volunteers, led by the Fjarli family, closed their seventh 50-village effort in India on October 28. On the last night of their Bible meetings, over 14,000 people attended the meetings which were simultaneously held in five different locations. Over 8,000 people were baptized. (Rate of conversion=57%)

On the heels of this success, a second team, spearheaded by the Fjarli family, began an eighth 50-village effort. One location already had 5,000 people attend in the first night. A local pastor expects to baptize at least 11,000 new Christians as a result of the second set of meetings.

The Fjarli family, from Medford, Oregon, went on their first Maranatha project in 2001. Earlier that year, Merlin Fjarli and his son, Bruce, happened to catch the same program about mission work in India on Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN). Inspired, they immediately called each other at their respective homes and decided to step into the mission field.

Following several meetings with Maranatha Volunteers International, the Fjarlis, who own a construction company, began fundraising to sponsor church construction in 50-villages where missionary pioneers were already working. They also raised money to support a major evangelism effort in the area where the Maranatha churches would be built.

In an interview with Maranatha in 2003, Bruce was preparing for his third 50-village effort to India. The enormity of his family's commitment had just begun to sink in.

"It's really overwhelming to think that we're doing this. We haven't been involved in things like this before," said Bruce. "But we accepted the call, and the doors opened up. I don't know how long it's going to last, but for now it's a privilege to share Jesus."

For now there seems to be no plans to stop. Merlin and his wife, Joanne, and Bruce, have become a powerhouse recruitment and fundraising team for Maranatha and India's mission field. They have traveled to India at least twice a year for mission trips, taking a crew of volunteer recruits along with them each time. Already they have another effort scheduled for February 2005. Prior to leaving for their most recent efforts in India, the Fjarli family spoke at the 2004 Maranatha Convention in Gladstone, Oregon. Bruce shared the spiritual impact missions has had on his life, and pleaded for others to take up the opportunity to get involved.

"I encourage all of you not to stay at home if you're afraid. I encourage all of you to go if you are afraid. [Going to India] was the most wonderful experience of my life-to cry out to the Lord and for Him to touch me. Then I got the blessing of going and meeting these people," said Bruce. "Someday, someone is going to tell the last person on earth about Jesus. And we get to go home."

Through the work of volunteers like the Fjarlis, Maranatha has constructed over 750 churches in India. Since Maranatha began work in India in 1998, Adventist membership in India has grown from 225,000 to over 850,000. As part of its 1,000 Churches in 1,000 Days initiative, Maranatha has committed to building 750 more places of worship in India.

Maranatha is working with the Fjarli family again for the ninth 50-village evangelism effort in India. In February 2005, Maranatha needs 30-36 people to be a part of this exciting event that has the potential to impact thousands of people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

Volunteers will be divided into five teams of five to six volunteers. Each team will be responsible for outreach and evangelism for a cluster of ten villages. Teams need a preacher, health-care speaker, people to greet at the evangelism meetings, and people who will pray with those attending the meetings. Children's ministry leaders are also welcome.

Maranatha has agreed to match funds raised by the Fjarli family to build churches in India. Maranatha needs to raise money to meet this matching challenge. Help us succeed in the India Matching Program and double your dollar by giving to Maranatha today!

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This is an open affront to Hindus. Their sensibilities. And their practice of fair-play. This is provocation of the worst order on the world’s most peaceful religion and its practitioners.


It is the duty of every good Hindu to stop them before they continue with their reckless slope down the slippery dustbin of history, following their paedophile predecessor, who went up in flames in the neighboring State or end up mutilated in sacs under the Hussain Sagar.


Some of the adverts for the Videos and DVDs:

The year was 1095 CE, William the Conqueror had united England under one crown 30 years earlier. The French had been dividing properties amongst their sons for generations, causing bloodshed between brothers over small pieces of real estate. In reaction, Pope Urban II expanded "The Truce of God", which outlawed fighting from Sunday to Wednesday, and banned fighting involving priests, monks, women, laborers and merchants on any day of the week. Italy was a collection of city-states, constantly being overrun by invading hordes, the latest of which were the Normans, who had just started to become "civilized".

There was also the Byzantine empire, ruling from Constantinople, whose emperor at this time was Alexius Comnenus. To his East, the Turks were rapidly encroaching on his empire, and had begun attacking pilgrims on their way to - and in - Jerusalem, causing him great distress. He wrote to his friend Robert, the Count of Flanders, in 1093, telling him about supposed atrocities committed by the Turks on the Christian pilgrims, and Robert passed this letter on to Pope Urban II. Pope Urban II, an opportunist, saw this as a perfect way to solve some of his local problems. He personally promoted a Holy Crusade to reclaim the Holy Lands from the barbarian Turks. Thus, the First Crusade was launched in 1096 CE.

If you are thinking that the Crusades belonged only to the bygone era, banish the thought. For, the current day activities of various Church denominations is a continuum of 1096 CE. And Ron Watts and his “innocent, Evangelical folks on Business and Tourist Visas” are one example of such typical Crusaders. The Table presented shows “Date of Crusade” NOT “Date of Evangelism”.


So, the energetic, organized campaign (crime) with a political, social, or religious aim continues unabated in a predominantly Hindu Dharmabhoomi and we do nothing about it.

Very often I read even our intellectuals using the expression: “Crusade against crime”.


To me, “Crusade IS crime”.


An Organized Crime against unsuspecting humanity. And we in India are doing nothing to stop these intellectual gorillas.


Ron Watts is in India on a Business Visa. His business, as we have seen is an energetic, organized campaign with a political, social or religious aim to convert Hindus to Christianity. In simple terms a Crusade. A war waged against the Hindus. His church, the Seventh Day Adventists, has waged a war, a crusade against Hindus. These Christian fundamentalists believe that the faster the rate of conversion, the nearer the Second Coming of Christ. Their accomplice in this crime against Hindus are the Sacramento, California, USA-based Maranatha Volunteers International which supports the Crusade of Ron Watts’ team with money for more churches in India and white skinned volunteer “warriors” for church building activity and proselytization in India.

I am reproducing what I read on Pages 47 and 48 of the Department Report City Evangelism of the Seventh Day Adventists; my comments are in brackets. Please carefully understand the words “harvest”, “reapers”, “field;” words usurped by this new breed of farmers. They don’t belong to Agriculture any more, but to fundamentalist Christians who are Aggro-on-our-Culture. These are the words of proselytizers, not evangelicals:

Southern Asia Division is entering a new era, a new epoch in its history. It is entering a “golden age in evangelism”. The field is ready for harvest.


(Oh, yeah, there are lot more dumb Hindus to convert)


What Jesus said: “The harvest is plentiful, the workers are few (Luke 10:2) is true today in India. Jesus continued “Ask the Lord for harvest, therefore, to send out workers to the harvest field” (Luke 10:2) –


I believe it is the answer to prayer that the Lord of harvest sends 38 teams of reapers this year (on Tourist Visas).

We need to continue to pray. We need the help of the world field for the harvest

(Yes we need all the fundamentalist Christians to send us money for this and Hindus to remain passive, meek and submissive, as ever).

This should be most important sign for the nearness of the Second Coming of the Christ, which is taking place right in our time.


(An open warning, dear Hindu folks, the danger of Jesus coming back soon is a reality).


We praise the Lord for the wonders that he performs before our eyes

(Oh man! he made that dumb guy sing like Michael Jackson and that blind man see clearly through his Raybans and that fat lame duck of a lady sprint like Marion Jones- We have seen all this happen in Benny Hinn and Dinakaran's TV circus shows- So, what's new?).

We need to ask our Lord to lead us in the right direction in the coming year in our endeavour for evangelism.

(Lord show us more American donor suckers for Maranatha and more dumb Hindus in India)

I would like to thank the Lord and the Division for giving this privilege to play a little part in this great and mighty work of bringing light to the dark corner of our great land of India.

(When the ancestors of these Western apes were clawing in caves, Bharatam had a great civilization going)

In Part –2, we have seen the 10 Village, 25 Village corporate plans of the Adventists. Let us see what kind of results one gets from a 50 Village plan. This was put to perfection by these proselytizers in Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, not too long ago. If this was in 2001 during the CEO Naidu’s TDP regime, then what is happening in AP today under christist Y Samuel Rajasekhara Reddy regime should not surprise us.

Look at what Ron Watts has to say on Y Samuel Rajasekhara Reddy:

D. R. Watts says that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister has given him indirect blessings:

"We feel a different atmosphere of happiness. [This chief minister] has 350 Adventists who work for him on his estates. In fact, Maranatha is in the process of constructing a new church building on the chief minister's estate for the Adventists, and that should be dedicated on Christmas Eve. "

To read the complete interview:

http://news.adventist.org/data/2004/11/1103655456/index.html.en

Maranatha Volunteers International, a non-profit organization based in Sacramento, California, has two main, complementary, goals, says Kyle Fiess, Maranatha’s Marketing Director: "We work to provide urgently needed buildings for the Seventh-day Adventist Church around the world, and at the same time, we provide opportunities for volunteerism."

(Meaning money and white skins on Tourist Visas to convert the gullible to christianity.)

Reporting from India (on a Tourist Visa, I presume), Don Noble, president of Maranatha Volunteers International, co-sponsor of the mega evangelistic outreach, said that on the final day of the public outreach, January 20, (2001) the total number of baptisms reached 15,018 in Ongole, Andhra Pradesh.

Commenting on the report from India, Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Adventist Church worldwide, said, "The reports that have been coming out of Ongole, India, are a powerful testimony to what God can do through servants wholeheartedly committed to Him. The field is ripe for harvest. There is no doubt about that. Good plans have been laid. Many have prayed for the reaping. And yet the outcome almost takes one's breath away!"

Paulsen could hardly hide his excitement on hearing the news. He said, "The Lord's blessings can take matters so far beyond our expectations. Did we dare to think that 15,000 to 20,000 new decisions for Christ would be made and expressed in baptism? I praise the Lord for His everlasting presence with His people, and I thank you, His servants, for your commitment and for the energy and resources you have given to this outreach initiative."

"What we witnessed in Ongole and the area churches is beyond any expectations. When we had our last event of the evangelistic campaign on Sabbath [Saturday] evening, those who attended were in excess of 40,000 people," Nobel reported.

According to Pastor Michael Ryan, director of Global Mission, the Seventh-day Adventist Church's international outreach department which coordinated the India evangelistic initiative, some 100 Global Mission pioneers completed training and shared the gospel of Jesus Christ in 50 villages surrounding Ongole beginning in September 2000. Addressing a group of local Global Mission pioneers, he said, "Never in my experience have I seen an evangelistic campaign of this size."

Noble reported that the great spiritual hunger of the people in India was graphically demonstrated in the deep interest portrayed by the huge crowd.

Trucks, buses, taxis, motor scooters and bicycles, along with those who walked, brought this crowd together for the final night to hear the good news of Jesus Christ. Great crowds pressed around the campaign leaders after the meeting to request prayer and to enjoy the last moments of what had been a great spiritual feast. The outreach program included witnessing activities and evening Bible study programs conducted mostly by lay preachers.

The last Sabbath of the campaign included many church dedications and baptisms. "Though the final count of baptisms was more than 15,000," Noble said, "the church leaders in the area expect another 5,000 baptisms in the next few weeks as a result of the meetings."

Among those who participated in the last few days of the outreach was Pastor Don Schneider, president of the North American Division regional territory of the Adventist Church. (he was in India on a Tourist Visa) He said that it is "impossible to describe what is happening here. It seems that the Holy Spirit is being poured out in latter day strength in this part of India."

The following passage will confirm what Business Ron Watts has in India on his “Business Visa”:

Pastor Ron Watts, president of the church's Southern Asia Division regional territory, said, "The deep spiritual hunger of the people of India brought this on. God worked through a wonderful combination of lay members, Global Mission pioneers and ministers to bring about this result. And we have just begun. Global Mission pioneers and leaders, along with pastors, will nurture these new members, most of whom will be able to worship in new churches built by Maranatha Volunteers International, a lay Adventist organization based in Sacramento, California, U.S.A., specializing primarily in building churches. But the rest of India awaits with eager anticipation for us to bring the Gospel to them."

Maranatha – the partner in crime against the Hindus

The India outreach includes a major effort to build houses of worship for the new believers. Maranatha has constructed new churches in some of the villages surrounding Ongole, though the project is part of an ongoing initiative undertaken in cooperation with Adventist church leaders in India and Global Mission that calls for at least 500 new churches to be built in the country.

Do they have the permission from the Government to construct them on our soil?

According to Kyle Fiess, Maranatha marketing director, the organization has 270 projects in India that are completed or in various phases of completion. Maranatha began its work in India in 1998, and at one point were completing churches at the rate of one per day, Fiess said. "Many volunteers, mostly from the United States, have taken part in the India construction (did they get the work permit in India?- or just involved themselves in the construction activity on a tourist visa), but the majority of projects have been completed with local crews."

Look at Watt’s his goal:

"We were astonished when Ron Watts presented us with a proposal for 10,000 churches in India. That seemed like a fanciful number until we began working there and witnessed the immense potential. As we have completed each project, many in areas with no prior Christian influence, (here is a simple admission that their target is the gullible Hindus) we have seen the Holy Spirit move in incredible ways throughout India,"

It appears that Maranatha does not need anybody’s permissions for being in the construction industry in India.

Ron Watts says:

"The church has grown from 225,000 people to over 700,000 in five years. In a culture that places a high importance on a house of worship, we urgently need churches to accommodate these new members," he said."

http://news.adventist.org//data/2003/04/1052835404/index.html.en


Fiess explains.

"After many experiences like the one in Ongole, we no longer consider 10,000 churches to be an unrealistic goal, but an unparalleled opportunity. Maranatha's experience in India has reinforced our commitment to constructing simple houses of worship as an effective way to spread the Gospel throughout the world."

Look at what unstopped aggression does to these people:

Noble said that "for years people have thought of India as unreachable in terms of Christianity, but we are finding that exactly the opposite is true today. These people are extremely eager to hear the Christian message."

The Adventist church has been present in India since the early 1900s, but until a few years ago, had only around 250,000 members within the entire sub-continent. Fiess says that the growth rate has been accelerating and cites the "vision for growth" of church leaders in India, as well as the work of 200-plus Global Mission pioneers-Adventist national lay workers.

Subtle De-Hinduisation at work

Fiess also points out the similarity between the Adventist lifestyle-with its emphasis on vegetarianism and health issues-and some aspects of Hindu, the predominant religion in India. On the other hand, Fiess notes, the Christian teaching of eternal life offers a hope that is in contrast with the Hindu belief in a repeated cycle of reincarnation.

In conclusion of his report from India, Noble referred to a Bible text: "The beautiful text, Isaiah 45:22, seems to be a wonderful theme for India at this time. 'Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.' India is ready to receive Jesus, and He is giving all of us a wide-open opportunity to share the Gospel with them.

Look at this warning that we don’t seem to pay heed to:

The Ongole evangelistic campaign is only a sample of what can happen all over India.

The Global Mission pioneers are expected to stay in the villages for five years to further establish the church ministry work that is going on in India.

http://news.adventist.org//data/2001/00/0980306029/index.html.en

Finally, take a look at what Ron Watts has to say further on Maranatha as reported in the
Maranatha Matters - August-2000:


"Before Maranatha came to India we had been baptizing an average of 1,000 people every month", says Dr. Ron Watts, President of the Southern Asia Division. "When Maranatha came to India the numbers started growing. Last year, 5,000 a month. In the first six months of 2000 we have been baptizing 10,000 people per month".

http://www.global-mission.org/htdocs/countries/india2.html

Ongole also reveals us a new lesson. That these lesser church denominations are not just preachers but also great poachers, too:

Dorothy Eaton Watts confirms the poaching game:

"One of these was a Baptist minister from a city of coastal India, who brought his congregation of 70 members by public transport to the meetings. “We believe the Adventist message,” the pastor said to a member of the team. “My congregation and I are all going to join the Seventh-day Adventist Church. We want to follow the truth in God’s Word.” This is one of more than 33 pastors of other churches who attended the meetings and are stepping out with their congregations. Twenty-one of these pastors and their wives have already been baptized.

Read the Ongole story by Dorothy Watts:

http://www.adventistreview.org/2001-1515/story1.html

I remember to have read somewhere that the late Pope John Paul II termed such predators as "wolves".

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"just as in the first millennium the Cross was planted on the soil of Europe, and in the second on that of the Americas and Africa, we can pray that in the Third Christian Millennium a great harvest of faith will be reaped in this vast and vital continent" (Asia).

Although Pope is the head of the corporate that I would like to call as the “Catholic Religious Business Inc.,” fondly known as the Vatican Empire, conversions has long since ceased to be the monopoly of the Catholic church. Smaller “Business” players have entered the fray with brute money and well cultivated disdain for the Native’s laws, culture and belief. With such new peddlers of faith in the global arena targeting the shrinking space of the “heathens”, the well established catholic business interests in the new market segments takes a beating as poaching surfaces within Christian denominations. And there is a hectic competition for the poor Native souls.

These lesser denominations zealously usurp the new mantra of the catholic era “harvest of faith”. The fight for increasing head count of sheep for their shepherd, begins within various church denominations, upping their aggression for new souls to harvest.

We are now aware that Ron Watts has admitted that he does not know what business he has in India, having entered into this Dharma Bhoomi on a Business Visa.

Ron Watts has selective Amnesia. Let us remind Ron and Dorothy Watts, what business we know they are doing in India. Ron Watts has lied to the Executive Magistrate in his deposition at Tiruvilla on 17-02-2005. I am baring his proclaimed innocence as nothing but audocious lies. In the following article, Dorothy Watts highlights their agenda and part of their blue print for effecting religious conversions in India. This exposes their plans. And how meticulously they stirve to achieve their goals of “harvest of faith”. This broad corporate plan would do any Sr Corporate Executive, proud. Look at how they identify their target audience. How they define their goals (in this case baptisms, which is an euphemism for conversions) How effectively they put a marketing plan in place, how they put a marketing team together, how effectively they delegate the work, How in the first place they identify the village “leaders” to “take care” of them so they don’t get into any trouble with the “rowdies” (read Hindus trying to thwart conversions)

Inducements. Plain and simple. Fraud on gullible very poor Hindus, with the complicity of the village leaders, who they take “care” to bring the required numbers of heifer to the chopping block.

http://www.cauc.ca/OldCUC/Pages/Life@cuc/Realstuff/News/25Village.html

On the Canadian University College site – under Current News, Dorothy Watts wrote as follows:

The 25-Village Program

--by Dorothy Watts

In the 1970’s while president of the South India Union, D.R. Watts began praying for some way to reach the nearly 600 000 villages of India with the gospel at a faster rate than was presently possible. Calls were coming to enter villages; but at the current rate of entering new places it would take hundreds of years to reach all of the villages of India. Then, too, he was concerned about the difficulty new Christians had when accepting Christ as it often meant leaving their village and family and starting anew somewhere else without the traditional support of the extended family. "Lord, there must be some way to overcome all of these obstacles", he prayed.

As he prayed about the matter and considered the Indian family and village system structure, he began to see a way to work within the culture (meaning: no instant cultural shocks, get as closer to their culture so it is easy to dupe and substitute with the christian thoughts with brief passage of time) That idea developed into The 25-Village Program and The 10-Village Program.

The plan was this:


Five sets of laymen, going out two by two under the direction of a regular pastor, and explore the villages in an area of a district. The idea was to find 25 villages in close proximity to each other, where the people were of the same family groups and castes that would enable them to have social relations and find marriage partners. After the 25 villages were chosen, the teams visited in each village, approaching first the leaders of the village, and inviting them to send two of their leaders to a 10-day seminar to be held at a nearby resort area. The leaders would come at our expense and be housed and fed and we would share with them the concepts of better living that we were willing to share in their villages if they invited us. But they were told, "We don’t want to come unless it is something that you approve of. So please come and listen to what we have to say, and see what you think. Then if you want us, we will visit your village. And if you don’t want us, we won’t come to you village." (This is the standard game plan. These folks know the innocence and the traditional hospitality of such village people and play their cards very well).

The 50 leaders then came together, and for ten days they had seminars from early morning until evening, going over all of the doctrines of the Christian faith. By the end of the meetings most of the leaders would be asking if the end of the meetings could baptize them. "No", the reply would be. "You go back and share these truths with the people in your village (now that you are sufficiently brainwashed). Then invite us to come and hold some meetings for your people. You must find the place, and guarantee there will be no disturbances in the meetings". Twenty-five evangelistic campaigns are then held simultaneously.

As a result, there would be 25 new congregations raised up with 50 to 100 members in each village. Now the converts had relatives and extended family in 24 other villages where they could go to find marriage partners and for the support they would need in their new way of life. We found that seldom with this plan was there much interference from rowdies because the leaders had given their pledge to take care of things and help us with the meetings. (Simple, They have been purchased) The results were amazing. Instead of a section entering three or four new places in a year, they were now raising up 25 new congregations twice a year. Using this method, the Kamataka Section doubled its membership in one year’s time in the late 1970’s. ( great harvest, indeed)

When D.R. Watts returned to India in 1997, this plan was again revived and also modified to accommodate The 10-Village Program which in many cases is easier to fund and to manage.

In 1998 there were 17 Ten Village Programmes conducted in India and 170 new congregations were established, and 9 337 were baptized from those 17 programs.

In 1999 forty such programs were conducted, and between 30 and 40 thousand people came into the church as a result of this innovative approach to village evangelism in India.

Let us look at one of his answers to the Executive Magistrate, Tiruvilla:


Q) What Business are you doing here?

A) I don't know what business I am doing.


Ron, come out of your selective Amnesia. We know the business you are in.

Conversions.

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Conversions contravene the law and public morality, violate public decency and the citizen's sense of security in his culture and civilizational traditions. For many Hindus, secularism in independent India is not about religious freedom, but rather translates into the state intervening to give undue weightage to proselytizing communities.

This lived experience of many decades has witnessed a sudden deterioration since the UPA government came to power and Congress party president Sonia Gandhi emerged as its supremo. In fact, the rise of Ms. Gandhi has over the past few years been accompanied by a disproportionate rise of Christian leaders in the Congress, and a steep spurt in evangelical activities in Congress-ruled states. It is not that the foreign-funded evangelists were inactive earlier - they were not, because they had to cope only with somnolent or corrupt bureaucracies and votebank hungry politicians. But their fortunes have marked a definite upward curve since the UPA came to power.

In the south today, the highly aggressive Seventh Day Adventists have been particularly active in recent years. They had a great success in getting one of their members, Samuel Rajshekhar Reddy, installed as CM of Andhra Pradesh. In neighbouring Karnataka, the Congress Chief Minister Dharam Singh ingratiated himself with Sonia Gandhi by allowing the showbiz evangelist Benny Hinn a free run of the town; and in Tamil Nadu there is a sudden and mysterious desire to be on the right side of the conversion industry.

Foreign missionaries have been excessively successful in the south, owing to a willingness among the political class to reach accommodation with them, albeit secretly. But the results are there for all to see. For some years now, one Canadian national, D.R. Watts, President, South Asian Division, Seventh Day Adventists, has been residing in India on a Business Visa. The gentleman, by his own admission, receives his monthly salary in US dollars, but has not taken Reserve Bank of India permission to exchange his dollars. His work in India is evangelism and he operates out of the Hosur office of the Seventh Day Adventists.

When Watts arrived in India in 1997, the Seventh Day Adventist Church had a membership of 2.25 lakh persons after a lifespan of 103 years. Within 5 years of his arrival, owing to his illegal and unethical methods, SDA membership shot up to 7 lakhs. In 2003, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a deportation order on Ron and Dorothy Watts and sent the same to the Tamil Nadu State Government, where Watts operated mainly in Hosur district (formerly part of Dharmapuri district).

The State Government ordered the Dharmapuri District Collector to deport Ron Watts and his American wife, Dorothy Watts. The collector in turn directed the Superintendent of Police, Dharmapuri, to deport the two, and the SP asked the Inspector of Mathigiri Police Station to carry out the order. While this appears to be the normal sequence of action, two extraordinary events take place. First, Hosur is taken out of Dharmapuri district and attached to Krishnagiri District, and second, the Inspector of Police, Mathigiri and other concerned officials simply forget the matter.

Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had enacted the anti-conversion law after 250 villagers in Madurai District were converted to Christianity by Ron Watts and his agents. After losing all 40 Lok Sabha seats, she repealed the act because she was advised that the neo-Christians had voted against her. Rather than fight back, she preferred to succumb. Hence Ron and Dorothy Watts continue to live royally in India; latest figures suggest SDA membership is over 1 million, a declaration expected to be made official during the forthcoming General Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists in USA.

According to reliable sources, Ron Watts will be attending the General Conference with a large contingent of 200 people. He is said to have managed their visas by producing letters from the Seventh Day Risk Management Company, showing them as ‘kind of delegates’ to attend a seminar, when in truth they are being taken to support Watts in his re-election on 26 June 2005. Actually, there is no scheduled meeting of the Seventh Day Risk Management Company, and this is a fraud to obtain visas, possibly with the connivance of the Bush administration. The re-election will give Watts access to larger resources for his conversion activities in India.

DETAILS OF INVESTIGATION:

On 17 February, 2005, the Canadian National, D.R.Watts who is the President of the South Asia division of the Seventh Day Adventists was questioned by Shri T.S. Basheer, Executive Magistrate, Tehsildar, Tiruvilla, Kerala. He was in Kerala purportedly under the invitation of Rajan Samuel, Principal of the Seventh Day Adventist Higher Secondary School, Kuttapuzha P.O, Tiruvilla. I have a copy certified by the Additional District Magistrate, Pathanamthitta of a 9 page deposition made by D.R.Watts before the Executive Magistrate, Tehsildar, Tiruvilla. The Text is reproduced as under:

ENQUIRY AGAINST D. R. WATTS dated 17-02-05

D.R.Watts personally present before me at 6-10 P.M. today.

DEPOSITION

I am the Vice President of General Conference of SDA assigned to me of administration of schools, colleges, hospitals and churches.

I am unaware of the kinds of the Visas.

There was a case against me before the High Court of Tamil Nadu at Chennai. In that case I had sworn in an affidavit that I came to India on a Business Visa which expired last year - 2004

I applied for a new Visa, to carry on the administrator work that I am assigned in Sourhern Asia, with headquarters at Hosur, Krishnagiri District of Tamil Nadu.

My Visa does not specify any purpose. I had applied for Visa for Administration purpose.

Note: The Visa of Mr.Watts is verified by me and found that it, the Visa is exclusively B Type Visa, as against his deposition.

What Business are you doing here?

Ans. I don’t know what business I am doing.

Why did you come to Seventh Day Adventist Higher Secondary School, Kuttapuzha, Tiruvilla to inaugurate the school building in the name of President of the South Asian Division of SDA, with a Business Visa?

Ans. I was invited by them as a guest.

What connection, a foreign businessman with a business visa, with a school in Kerala

Ans. No connection

You had to attend one religious function of SDA in Kottarakkara at 5 P.M. today after SDAHSS Programme. Is it true?

Ans. Yes, I had to attend.

Under what provision of law you are involving or attending religious functions in India, especially Kerala, like the above admitted Kottarakkara functions?

Ans. Under instructions/guidelines of the Foreigner’s Act, I understand that I can’t involve in such activities as above.

Are you a salaried person?

Ans. No. I receive my funds from my employer General Conference of SDA in Silverspring, USA.

Here also you are admitting that you are doing religious service in India. Is it?
Ans. I am doing the administrator work of a religious organization.

You have admitted that you are receiving funds from the General Conference. If that be so in what currency you are receiving the fund?

Ans. I am receiving the fund in U S Dollars.

Where are you getting these dollars?

Ans. In Silverspring USA.

Have you got permission of the Reserve Bank of India for exchange of these dollars in India?

Ans. NO

What did you disclose in the Form 6, Column 8, for the purpose of Visiting India?

Ans. Administrator of the Seventh Day church.

You are well aware of the North Kerala, South Kerala and South West Indian area of the Kerala fields?

Ans. Yes

Am I not correct to say that you are attending their functions?

Ans. Occassionally.

Do you know that you can’t do any religious work in India, with a B Type Visa?

Ans. I do accept.

Do you feel that you have violated all laws genarally Foreigners Act by virtue of the above facts.

Ans. Yes

You are taking with you many foreigners with Tourist Visa. Is it?

Ans. NO

It is found in the above facts that you have admitted in your own words you are guilty of having violated all the laws governing Foreigners. Is it?

Ans. I agree.

Therefore are you ready to leave the country all by yourself within 24 hours?

Ans. YES.

Or do you know that you will be sent to jail, for any more violation of the law and you agree to promise above?

Ans. Yes I know.

Following is the undertaking given by D.R.Watts in his own handwriting:

I do apologize to the court for any violation of the law of the country which I am charged with. I do not wish in any way to violate any laws of India. If the court is pleased to accept my apology and grant lenience on humanitarian ground, I will deport from India within twenty four hours. Further I will not come to India any longer in religious purpose, nor will I involve in religious activities in the name of Visa specified for other purpose.

Signed

D.R.Watts
C/O Souther Asian Division,
Mathigiri, HCF, Hosur, TN-635 110

Local address furnished:

C/O Rajan Samuel, Principal,
SDA School, Kuttapuzha, Tiruvilla, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala.

Permanent Address in USA

David Ronald Watts
1901 Ednor Road,
Silver Spring, MD
USA

The above D.R.Watts attended the programme held in my school, Seventh Day Adventist Higher Secondary School, Kuttapuzha, Tiruvilla, Pathanamthitta, Keral on my invitation and he inauguraed the new block of (building) of my school and he addressed the gathering extending his falicitation on the Pesident of Southern Asia Division of SDA today at 4-30 P.M. (17-2-2005, Thursday). And I did not know that he was involving religious activities in Kerala with a “B” Type Visa.

Signed

Rajan Samuel

Present Address

Rajan Samuel
Principal,
SDA Higher Secondary School, Kuttapuzha P.O
Tiruvilla-3, Kerala

Permanent Address

Rajan Samuel
TC 21/1246
Joy Cottage
Nedumcaud
Karamana P.O., Trivandrum -2

Residence

Rajan Samuel, Kochiyil,
Bethel Junction,
Kuttapuzha P.O.
Tiruvilla -3, Kerala.
Note:

The Visa of the above D.R.Watts verified by the Additional District Magistrate, Sri B.Mohanan in my presence. I have personally verified the above Visa. The entire excercise of having been taken evidence in the case, depositions of D.R.Watts recorded and examination done in my presence from the beginning to the end. And D.R.Watts put his signature above with the details of his address and C/O Mr.Rajan Samuel, Principal, SDA School, above in my presence. Mr.Rajan Samuel also recorded his above statement in my presence.

Signed
T.S.Basheer
Executive Magistrate, Tehsildar, Tiruvilla.

Note II (in Malayalam) - confirming the above -

Signed
Anthony John,
Additional Sub Inspector of Police
Tiruvilla.

Now, having given this written undertaking to the Executive Magistrate, Tiruvilla, D.R.Watts continues to stay in India.

And in the 106 days since then, has been instrumental in converting more than 31,800 (estimate 2003 rate of conversion as per SDA’s own admission) people to Christianity.

Does this surprise anybody?

Here is the text of the written undertaking given by Rajan Samuel, the Principal of the SDAHSS, Kuttapuzha, Tiruvilla on 17/02/2003

UNDERTAKING

I, Rajan Samuel, Principal, S.D.A.H.S.S., Kuttapuzha, Tiruvilla, residing at Kochiyal, Bethel Junction, Kuttapuzha, Tiruvilla, hereby undertake the following:

As has been directed, I will personally ensure that D.R.Watts, President, Southern Asia Division of S.D.A. will leave India within 24 hours on his illegal involvement in religious activities in India.
I will inform the A.D.M.Pathanamthitta, Tehsildar and Executive Magistrate, Tiruvilla and Additional Sub Inspector of Police, Tiruvilla Sri Antony John in person and also in writing the date and time of leaving of D.R.Watts and other details as the place of departure, flight of departure and Airport of his departure within 24 hours of D.R.Watts leaving the country.

This undertaking will be part of my statement recorded by myself in the connected papers of enquiry today.

On any violation, I agree that the undertaking both civil and criminal proceedings can be initiated against me. I will be personally held responsible for any act of ommission or commission in this regard.

Signed
Rajan Samuel
Principal
S.D.A.H.S.S.
Kuttapuzha P.O.
Tiruvilla-3,
Pathanamthitta
Kerala

Signed in my presence
Signature of
T.A.Basheer
Executive Magistrate, Tehsildar, Tiruvilla

Signed in my presence
Antony John,
Additional S.I. Of Police, Tiruvilla P.S.

Attested by
Sri Mohanan
Additional District Magistrate, Collectorate, Pathanamthitta.

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Ron Watts makes a deposition. Makes a handwritten apology in which he undertakes to leave the country in 24 hours, in presence of honourable witnesses. More importantly the deposition is made in the presence of the Additional District Magistrate, Pathanamthitta to the Executive Magistrate, Tahsildar, Thiruvilla and in the presence of the Sub Inspector of Police, Thiruvilla. The Principal of the SDA HSS takes the criminal and civil responsibility of ensuring the departure of Ron Watts.

And what does Ron Watts do once he is out of Kerala?

He goes back to Hosur and shoots a fax, the very next day of his deposition, to the Additional District Magistrate, Pathanamthitta, The Secretary, Home Department, Kerala, The Director General of Police, Kerala and Additional District Magistrate, Pathanamthitta that he was coerced and forced to make the deposition.

Let us get back to the chain of events:

Following the deposition by Ron Watts on 17th Feb, 2005, the District Collector of Pathanamthitta, Kerala wrote to the Personal Secretary, Chief Minister of Kerala as follows:

No 14036/2005 dated 26/02/2005 - Collectorate, Pathanamthitta.

From

The District Collector,
Pathanamthitta.

To

The Private Secretary to the Hon’ble Chief Minister,
Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.

Sir,

Sub: Complaints against Pastor D.R.Watts-a Canadian citizen in India with Business Visa engaged in religious activities-presented in Pathanamthitta District-Verification of his travel documents including VISA-final report - submitted - regarding

Ref:

1. Petition dated 10-02-2005 of Dr. K.J.Moses, Secretary-Southern Asia Division of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Post Box 2- HCF, Hosur-635110, Tamil Nadu.
2. Petition dated 16-02-2005 of Vellayani Sundara Raju, Advocate, High Court of Kerala, II Floor, Edasseri Building, Cochin-31
3. Deposition of Pastor D.R.Watts dated 17-02-2005 before the Additional District Magistrate, Pathanamthitta
4. Passport and Visa Particulars of Pastor D.R.Watts verified on 17-02-2005 by Additional District Magistrate, Pathanamthitta and attested by Tahsildar and Executive Magistrate, Thiruvilla
5. Undertaking given by Sri S.Rajan Samuel, Principal SDA HSS, Kuttapuzha dated 18-02-2005
6. Fax Message of Pastor D.R.Watts, President, Southern Asia Division of Seventh Day Adventist, HCF, Hosur addressed to Additional Magistrate also dated 18-02-2005
7. Reply of Additional District Magistrate, Pathanamthitta by Fax to Pastor D.R.Watts dated 18-02-2005
8. Interim Report dated 22-02-2005 of the Additional District Magistrate, Pathanamthitta to the Government
   

As per written complaints referred to 1st and 2nd due notice was issued to D.R.Watts, a Canadian citizen on 17-02-2005 at the Seventh Day Adventist Higher Secondary School, Kuttupuzha, Thiruvilla of this district where he came for inaugurating the new school building. He appeared before me at my camp place at Taluk Office, Thiruvilla at 6-10 P.M. that day. I conducted detailed enquiry including verification of his Passport and other travel documents in the presence of the Tahsildar and Executive Magistrate, Thiruvilla and the Additional Sub Inspector of Police, Thiruvilla Police Station.

In his deposition D.R.Watts conceded that he has been violating the laws relating to VISA by functioning as President of a religious denomination named the Southern Asia Division of Seventh Day Adventist which has been engaging in spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ and thereby converting people to its fold after giving them baptisms. Evidence was taken from D.R.Watts in short notice as there was every chance for his leaving the district. And he has admitted while taking evidence that as per his schedule he had to attend a religious meeting of the SDA at Kottarakkara that day after his programme at SDA HSS, Kuttapuzha, Thiruvilla.

D.R.Watts stated that he has been the President of the Southern Asia Division of the SDA with its Headquarters at Hosur, Tamil Nadu and the duty assigned to him has been the administration of SDA Schools, Collages, Hospitals and Churches under his jurisdiction and he was unaware of what type of VISA he holds. Then, his visa was verified and found that his visa is “B” type. He is a Canadian citizen and his Passpost number is B.C.175802. There are endorsements and limitations mentioned in his passport as follows:

“This passport is valid for all countries unless otherwise endorsed (subject to any visa or other entry regulations of countries to be visited)”.

The above endorsements and limitations are to be strictly complied with, by the holder of the passport as and when he visits any country other than his.

He has admitted that he involved in religious activities in India as he was unaware of the guidelines and instructions of the Foreigners Act 1946 of which admission the first half is true and the other half is untrue and totally wonder striking and beyond all logic. Further he stated that he has been receiving funds from Silverspring USA in US Dollars and he did not get any permissioin of the Reserve Bank of India for exchange of the Dollars.

To my following questions he answered the affirmative:

(Q) Do you know that you cannot do any religious work in India with a “B” type Visa?
(A) I do accept

(Q) Do you know that you have violated Foreigners Act and Rules by virtue of the above facts?

(A) Yes

He further admitted that violations of the laws governing foreigners and break of his above promise of leaving the country would lead him behind the bars. Therefore, he apologized in writing before me and other witnesses like the Tahsildar and Executive Magistrate, Thiruvilla and the Additional Sub Inspector of Police, Thiruvilla that he has been involving in religious activities in India with a “B” Type Business Visa and requsted to give him lenience on humanitarian grounds by stating that he would himself deport from India within 24 hours and he would not come back to India any longer for religious purposes. Nor he would involve in any religious activities in the name of Visas specified for other purposes.

The above written assurance and promise of D.R.Watts was endorsed by responsible officials as the Tahsildar and Executive Magistrate, Thiruvilla and the Principal of the SDA HSS, Kuttapuzha, Thiruvilla as per reference 5th cited that he would see that D.R.Watts would deport from India as has been undertaken by both. The above undertaking was not fulfilled by the Principal of SDA HSS, Kuttapuzha on the advice of D.R.Watts and his associates in Kerala, as has reliably been understood. Therefore I served a notice to the Principal for him to appear before me on 23-02-2005 to explain in person for not complying with his undertaking. As he requested to give him a day’s time to appear before me, I granted time for him to be present for the hearing on 24-02-2005 and he was present and he was heard. He stated tht D.R.Watts left Kerala and he was promised by D.R.Watts that he would be leaving the country within 24 hours and the Principal would collect D.R.Watts’ whereabout in India, if not he has not alreay been left and the matter would be reported within three days.

As the issue involved in is a very serious issue pertaining to the Security of the Nation I faxed a preliminary report on 22-02-2005 to the Government together with some documents to the Private Secretary to Hon’ble Chief Minister.

On 18-02-2005 I received a faxed complaint from D.R.Watts levelling several false allegations against me to make believe others that he gave evidence admitting his guilt and wrote and gave assurance to me on 17-02-2005, were all on the basis of force and coersion applied on him. This allegation is totally false and incorrect which establishes that D.R.Watts as a cunning villian goes to any extent to say and do false things in wrongful ways. The said fax message referred to 6th was addressed to the Secretary Home Department, Director General of Police and Additional District Magistrate, Pathanamthitta. After perusing the above message I faxed my reply to that in the very same day itself to D.R.Watts as per reference 7th cited.

Subsequently I issued due notices to the petitioners to appear before me for taking evidence including documents if any to prove their case. In response to the notice the 2nd petitioner appeared before me on 23-02-2005. He was heard-His statements were recorded. He produced six documents.

According to the 2nd petitioner, D.R.Watts is in fact a danger to the Nation and a cancerous cell embedded in the spiritual body of the SDA denomination in India. The 2nd petitioner has established through recordical and oral evidence that D.R.Watts has been indulging in the business of conversion of comman man to christianity by offering petty cash concessions and also through allurements to give employment to educated persons in the denominational schools and hospitals functioning in India, sending youth for education at the Spicer Memorial College, Pune and also for arranging marriages between young men and women belonging to SDA. He further stated that when D.R.Watts came to India and assumed charge of the office of the President of the Southern Asia Division of the SDA in 1997, it had a membership of 2,25,000 persons only for its 103 years of existence. But within a span of 5 years due to the illegal and unethical methods adopted by D.R.Watts and his agents the SDA membership has shot up to 7 lakhs. Within a span of 5 years, 5 lakhs baptisms he made and thereby 5 lakh conversions. Document no.5 produced by the 2nd petitioner establishes the above facts.

The 2nd petitioner invited my attention to document numbers 7 to 9 and stated that even in 1997 the activities of D.R.Watts were strongly condemned by VHP leaders like Sri Giriraj Kishore and Sri Ashok Singhal. Naming D.R.Watts, Sri Giriraj Kishore went to that extent of stating that D.R.Watts was named as a CIA agent, bringing huge amount of foreign funds through ISI Pasistan and the amount so brought, a portion that had been given for terrorist activities in the North-East. Sri Singhal alleged on 15th December, 1997 (India Today) that D.R.Watts brought 700 Crores of Rupees for effecting conversions in India.

The 2nd petitioner further stated that in June 2002, 250 villagers of Madurai district of Tamilnadu were got baptised and got converted to christianity by D.R.Watts and his agents which prompted the Tamilnadu Government to enact the Anti-conversion Law in Tamilnadu.

It is further pointed out by the 2nd petitioner on the basis of document no:10 that batch and batch of foreigners were brought to India by D.R.Watts and his wife on tourist visa and engaged them in evangelism in various cities in different states and converted huge numbr of persons to Christianity and thereby caused severe communal tensions among various sections of Hindu society. According to 2nd petitioner the SDA in India is the only Christian denomination making budgetory provision and fixing targets for baptisms and thereby conversion.

Document No:1 established that as many as 40 foreigners came and conducted evangelism in various centres of Indian States including Kerala (Pathanamthitta District) and 8 other places in Kerala and effected large number of conversion. According to the 2nd Petitioner, under the leadership and guidance of D.R.Watts as many as 8 lakhs of persons were converted to Christianity mainly from Tenaly, Ongole, Nalgonda etc., of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. In document no: 3, a paper presented by the Secretary of the Southern Asia Division in the Pastors Conference of SDA held a Kottarakkara from 25th to 28th January, 2005, is mentioned that more than 500,000 baptisms were effected by D.R.Watts from 1997 to 30th September, 2004.

It has been stated by the 2nd Petitioner that on the basis of various and serious violations committed by D.R.Watts, several complaints were preferred as documents numbers 5 and 7 by outsiders (general public) requesting to deport D.R.Watts and his wife from India and not to reniew the Visa of D.R.Watts on its expiry on 01-11-2003. It is stated that the 2nd petitioner along with 6 others preferred a joint representation to the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tamilnadu requesting to deport D.R.Watts and not to renew his visa for the period thereafter. But due to the money power of D.R.Watts nothing has materialized, he stated. He also stated that Dr.K.J.Moses, the Secretary of the Southern Asia Division of the SDA said that D.R.Watts has spent Rs.1 Crore and 30 Lakhs as bribe to many people including bureaucrats for his safe retention in India.

It is therefore the 2nd petitioner filed WP (C) No: 33054/2003 before the Hon’ble High Court of Madras. The Court but asked the 2nd petitioner to withdraw the case by order dated 5-04-2004 copy of which is marked as document no:4. The court gave liberty to the 2nd petitioner to move before the appropriate forum by appropriate petition. It was stated by the 2nd petitioner that though he filed representations to the concerned authorites of the Central Government, with necessary documents, D.R.Watts men influenced all such authorities offering money and all the attempts of the 2nd petitioner went in futile. It was under that circumstance on knowing the arrrival of D.R.Watts in Pathanamthitta District on 17-02-2005, the 2nd petitioner preferred a detailed representation against D.R.Watts with documents.

It is reported that the first petitioner in this case is none other than the Secretary of the Southern Asia Division of the SDA who categorically asserted that D.R.Watts committed fraud on the Constitution. It is the authentic account of D.R.Watts’ activities in India which is duly established by the voluntary admission made by D.R.Watts.

According to the 2nd petitioner who is a lawyer, practising in the Hon’ble Highest Judicial Forum in the State that forcible conversions made by D.R.Watts are against the provisions of Article 25(1) and (2) of the Constitution of India and D.R.Watts has functioned against his Visa norms which acts are highly illegal and punishable. He has also requested to take action against 5 pastors named Shri J.Titto, Shri Pothen Kurien, Shri Babu Judson, Shri S.Stanley and Shri K.J.Varghese under Sections 13 and 14 of the Foreigners Act. As pastors and functionaries of Kerala they all supported the illegal activities of D.R.Watts.

In the light of the various facts and circumstances of the case as above it is reported that D.R.Watts is a Security concern for the Nation that the Government may take necessary actions according to law against D.R.Watts and to deport him from India as he has intentionally and deliberately violaged all the Visa norms as also already admitted by him that he has involved in religious activities including religious conversions in India.

It is also requested to take up the matter with the Government of India in view of the National Security that no foreigner endangers the country by such acts of traitory.

Yours faithfully,
Signed
B.Mohanan
Additional District Magistrate,
Pathanamthitta


How is it that he is allowed a free stay in India, despite the above deposition and:

A deportation order against him dated 05/09/2003 Letter No: 3608/A1/2003-1 given by Tmt R.Vasantha, B.A., Under Secratary to Government, Public (Foreigners) Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009 addressed to the Collector of Dharmapuri and received by the collector on 12 Sept, 2003.

The Deportation Order is as follows:

Sub: Foreigners - Leave India Notice- David Rolad Watts and his wife Mrs. Dorathy Mary Watts

Ref: From the Government of India, MHA, New Delhi, Letter No: 17016/3/98/ F.VII dated 2/7/2003.

I am directed to invite attention to the references cited and to state that the Government of India have considered the case of the above foreigner and found not possible to grant further extension of stay in India. They have also instructed that they may be asked to leave India within 15 days (fifteen days) on receipt of this letter.

I am also to state the above foreigners are still living in Dharmapuri and getting extension of resident every year.

I am therefore directed to request you to take action accordingly and to intimate the date of departure of the above foreigners immediately to the Government for onward transmission to the Government of India.

This may be treated as “Most Urgent”

Copy to: The Under Secretary to Government of India, MHA, Foreiners FVII Section, Lok Nayak Bhavan, Khan Market, New Delhi

The Superintendent of Police, Dharmapuri

Individuals

Signed

Under Secretary to Government


Based on the above orders, the District Collector of Dharmapuri, Sri M.A.Siddique wrote to the Superintendent of Police, Dharmapuri District - Letter No: 59073/03 (C5) dated 24/09/03. This order is issued in Tamil and the gist of it is that the District Collector brings to reference the Government order and directs the SP, Dharmapuri to deport the two foreign nationals within the time stipulated by the order and send an action taken report to him.

The Superintendent of Police, Dharmapuri District wrote on 20/10/2003 - B1/1066/BCAP/2003 to the Inspector of Police, Mathigiri (Hosur) instructing him to act as per the copy of the Collector’s order attached. The Inspector of police was directed to ensure deportation of the two foreign nationals, D.R.Watts and Dorothy Watts within 7 days from the date of receipt of the order.

It is a matter of irony that all these orders carry the note: MOST URGENT.

Watts continues to stay. Converting at the rate of 300 people per day to christianity (conversion figures of 2003, currently it is approximately 500 people per day)

If anybody has serious doubts if the business of Watts is other than conversions, take a look of the text of the letter written by the General Secretary of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Southern Asia Division. This letter is addressed to the District Collector and The District Magistrate, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala State and is dated February, 10, 2005. His letter will reveal why D.R.Watts was grilled in Tiruvilla. The text is reproduced below:

Dear Sir,

I would like to inform you the arrival of Pastor D.R.Watts, the President of the Southern Asia Division of Seventh Day Adventist, to the SDA Higher Secondary School at Kuttapuzha, Tiruvalla, Pathanamthitta District on 17 February, 2005 for inaugurating our new School Building there. Pastor D.R.Watts is a Canadian citizen and is a Business Visa holder. Pastor Watts has been engaged in Evangelism mainly converting people to Christianity from Andhra Pradesh. For evangelical work Pastor Watts used to bring batch and batch of Foreign Missionaries to India on Tourist Visas. Our Division has no business and Pastor Watts also not doing any business here. He is the President of our division looking after the missionary works against his Visa norms. Pastor Watts’ target of making the membership of the division to 1 million in 2005 is almost attained. Though quantity of the membership in the division has enormously increased but the quality of it we lost due to the reason of adopting unethical methods for achieving the goal. Many complaints were made by individuals and organisations against Pastor Watts hushed of all those complaints. Our division needs an Indian leadership to function the SDA Mission in India like that of all the other Christian Denominations. Pastor Watts’ presence in India is a great hindrance for the Division to meet its privilege.

It is therefore requested to enquire into the travel documents of Pastor Watts when he arrives at Kuttapuzha on 17th Feb, 2005 and deal with him for the best interest of our country.

Sincerely,
Dr. K.J.Moses,
Secretary

Yet, D.R.Watts flouts all laws with impunity, getting patronage from Antonia Maino and Jayaa. Y.Samuel Rajasekhara Reddy has gone one up, asking him to construct a church on his farm for 350 neo-converts. A.P. has witnessed maximum conversions. Ongole, Tanuku and Nellore are just becoming Christian Towns; the villages are already lost.

The links for verifying the documents are as follows:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/naamoku/album?.dir=/3012