Fwd: Petition against proposal for Church in Tirumalai

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on in building a church in Tirumala (up in Tirumala and not Tirupati). In fact

the article said already there are 7 churches in Tirupati. The CM of AP Mr. Y.

Samuel Rajashekar Reddy (who is a convert to Christianity) is providing all the

support for the same from the government, which manages the whole temple

through T.T.D (the trust which manages all the temples at Tirumala and

Tirupati). As a step towards this, they have already converted the

Executive Officer of T.T.D into a christian (again, this officer is appointed

by the government itself). The plans came to light when 100 acres of land, up

in Tirumala, was put to auctionby this executive officer and these Christian

missionaries started bidding for it. The question was, why are they trying to

sell the land

while the temple is not at all in need of any money? Even if the temple

needed money, there are FDs from T.T.D worth more than 15,000 crores in

various banks, which can be withdrawn at any time. Over the years, it was a

guideline followed by T. T.D not to sell any land to anyone. They used to

lease the land for different Mathas (like our Kashi Matha) and Chathras. The

lease period was not more than 30 years which needed renewal after it expired.

This being the case, why would they sell the land now? The whole article was

based on what was published in a daily newspaper in AP called "Andhra

Jyothi". Even when the British were in power (pre-Independence), they did not

dare to come to Tirupati/Tirumala with their conversion plans. But now, with

the help of our own people, they are crossing all the limits of toleration.

We need to

spread this awareness among allour people so that this can be stopped if

possible. So, I humbly request all of you to post this message in all the

religious forums you have access to and spread this shocking news. Report in

The Hindustan Times dated 26th July 2005 states: MINEAPOLIS: Opposing the

construction of a church at the sacred Tirumala Hills, 23 Indo- American

organizations in Houston have urged Prine Minister Manmohan Singh to ask the

Andhra PradeshGovernment to maintain the sanctity of the religious place which

is a holy shrine for the Hindus world over. Agitated by media reports from India

that the AP government was actively considering the application of a religious

society to build a church atop the Tirumala Hills, the abode of Lord

Venkateshvara, these Indo-American organizations held an emergency meeting at

Houston on 16th July to discuss the issue. The meeting decided to send a

representation to the Prime Minister. So please get everyone to

New Roman">sign the pettition via the link given

herebelow:http://www.petitiononline.com/save7hil/petition.html Also, please

forward this message to the people we know.

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