Major Christian Charity Is Closing India Operations Amid a Crackdown<br />A Foreign Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, following diplomatic protocol, said<br />that Compassion International’s partners were violating Indian law by engaging in religious activities, and that the organization declined a government offer to re-register as a religious organization, which would have allowed it to continue its work in India.<br />Mr. Mellado said that I told them, instead of having all your partners Christian, have some Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Sikh organizations.<br />Through Mr. Prabhudoss, Mr. Tiwari put forward a proposal: The government might view Compassion International more favorably if the charity routed a portion of its $45 million in annual charitable donations away from churches<br />and through non-Christian aid groups, including Hindu ones.<br />Mellado said that What we hear from our friends in India is<br />that it would be tragic if they were successful in shutting down Compassion, because that would leave other ministries very vulnerable,<br />The shutdown of the charity, Compassion International, on suspicion of engaging in religious conversion, comes as India, a rising economic power with a swelling spirit of nationalism, curtails the flow of foreign money<br />to activities it deems "detrimental to the national interest." More than 11,000 nongovernmental organizations have lost their licenses to accept foreign funds since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in 2014.<br />As it came to an end, he said, a Home Ministry official suggested<br />that Compassion International re-register its Indian partners as religious entities, a step that the charity’s legal team discouraged, saying it would lead to further paralysis.<br />Indian learned that We said we teach moral values; we do not force anyone into religion.<br />In early January, Mr. Oakley, the general counsel, went to New Delhi to plead his case to India’s foreign secretary,<br />Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, in a meeting also attended by the second-ranked United States diplomat in India.
