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Floyd Mayweather: The Brilliant Business Behind Boxing's Undisputed King
Julian Mitchell Contributor
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The record-breaking bout between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao reached a pinnacle of publicity the sports world has never seen.
Five years in the making, boxing's most impressive and outspoken superstar stepped into the ring for a face-off with a man millions believed would be the first to blemish Money Mayweather's dominant legacy.
Grossing an astounding $400 Million in Pay-Per-View revenue, with an additional $74 million made from the live gate, the match shattered total earnings numbers for any previous high-profile fight by upward of $200 million. Cable television titans Showtime and HBO partnered for an unprecedented and exclusive deal to share the rights, with both releasing an extensive series of teasers, interviews, promotional packages, mini-docs and network specials to peak interest leading up to May 2nd.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. answers reporter questions during a press conference following his welterweight title fight against Manny Pacquiao on Saturday, May 2, 2015 in Las Vegas. Mayweather defeated Pacquiao in a unanimous decision. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Though Mayweather steered away from having too many corporate endorsements, that didn't stop brands from throwing media and marketing dollars at the event. Tecate, the title sponsor, spent a reported $5.6 million to claim the slot, with beginning bids for sponsorship placement starting at $1 million.
Winning by unanimous decision after going the 12-round distance in what appeared to be a stress-free fight for Mayweather, the monumental monetary outcome was just one hint of confirmation to the elite boxer and businessman he has become.
As a boxer, Mayweather's career is remarkable. With a 48-0 record, he's now won 6 world championships in 5 different weight divisions. His list of victories includes defeating boxing legends like Oscar De La Hoya and Sugar Shane Mosley, in addition to beating promising opponents like Victor Ortiz, Miguel Cotto and Marcos Maidana, whom he defeated twice.
Floyd Mayweather topped the list of highest-paid athletes in 2014, banking $105 million from just two fights. Prior to facing Manny Pacquiao, he had a reported net worth nearing $400 million. Since his first major headline fight against Carlos Baldomir in 2006, which earned Mayweather $8 million, every fight that followed amassed him at least $20 million.
Floyd Mayweather Jr., left, hits Manny Pacquiao, from the Philippines, during their welterweight title fight on Saturday, May 2, 2015 in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
The less talked about peg of Mayweather's empire is Mayweather Promotions. While Mayweather has proven savvy and surgical as a boxer, he's masterfully established himself as an even sharper and more shrewd businessman outside of the ring.
After parting ways with Top Rank, in which he paid an estimated $750 thousand to buy-out of his contract, Mayweather launched his own promotion company, changed his nickname to "Money", and began his quest to conquer both sides of the boxing world.
Respected as the preeminent promotions company in the sport, Top Rank held a decorated roster of distinguished champions such as Oscar De La Hoya, and most recently Manny Pacquiao. Feeling like not enough attention was placed on his talent and potential, Mayweather was determined to prove a point.
In 2002, leveraging his substantial success, De La Hoya launched Golden Boy Promotions, in partnership with fellow boxing greats Bernard Hopkins and Ricky Hatton. Golden Boy Promotions boasted a streak of major fights that produced big numbers, once setting a record with over 2 million Pay-Per-View subscriptions. Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank have commonly collaborated to promote fight cards for headlining matches.
Today, aside from claiming the crown as arguably the best fighter of his era, Mayweather also takes a seat on the throne of boxing promoters. Saturday's fight was presented by Mayweather Promotions and Top Rank, making Floyd, who was once the signee, now the owner and the main event.
With a huge fight payout and incredible multimedia marketing win on his side, Mayweather Promotions stands as the highest ranking, and highest earning company in the sport. With plans to retire after his final fight in September, Mayweather is already prepared to transition into full-time promoter and accelerate his own group of rising talent.
Understanding the appeal of his personal brand, Mayweather successfully leveraged a position atop the premiere fighters of his era to forge an incredibly lucrative business model - schedule, promote and win his own fights. More impressively, he sets the price, controls the deals and manages the process.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. exchange punches with Manny Pacquiao during their welterweight unification championship bout, May 2, 2015 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather defeated Pacquiao by unanimous decision. AFP PHOTO / JOHN GURZINKSI (Photo credit should read JOHN GURZINSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
In addition to Mayweather the fighter and promoter, he is also CEO of The Money Team. What seemingly began as a playful name for his close-knit entourage has naturally evolved into a lavish lifestyle brand - displaying Mayweather's fleet of foreign cars, immaculate homes, luxe vacations and personal treatment catered for a king. That brand now sells popular merchandise, including hats, shirts and other apparel.
Brilliantly mastering the art of entertainment marketing, Mayweather has managed to merge the influence and purchasing power of pop culture with the sport of boxing.
As seen Saturday night, nearly every notable artist, athlete and entertainer - from Jay Z and Michael Jordan, to Tom Brady and Denzel Washington - filled seats to see Mayweather perform. His presence within the Hip Hop community is well-documented, while he has further expanded the reach of present-day boxing to a more youthful global audience.
Since making the business decision to shift gears and manage his own brand, every move Mayweather makes is intentional, calculated and three steps ahead of the boxing industry. More than mastering the craft, he's mastered how to effectively market his movement.
Floyd Mayweather sells an unmatched work ethic, unparalleled dedication and an unwavering will to be the best ever. The other side of his brand flaunts an unapologetic bravado and brash delivery, excessively spending money and engaging in well-documented social media wars. His handling of the media is meticulously strategized and mapped out to mirror a specific marketing agenda. In the end, it all works in his favor, further solidifying his bullet-proof business model.
Mayweather approaches boxing as an entertainment enterprise, fueled by conflict, excitement and the desire of many to see a prideful champion fall from grace. Knowing this, he has embraced the bad boy persona artfully and made it his mission to eliminate the line between boxing and entertainment, making every experience in his career a combination of the two.
When you fully understand your brand, perfect your craft, outwork the competition and possess incredible skill - the only fate in front of you is an unbeatable one. Though there are several swirling debates spanning across social media, sports bars and barber shops nationwide as to where Mayweather ranks amongst best fighters of all time - one thing is certain: nobody has ever earned the name "Money" like Floyd Mayweather.
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If you wanted to write for yourself, you could keep a journal. You blog because you want other people to connect with what you have to say, or because you know it's a valuable way to promote your website. Either way, you need other people to find you.
You already know the SEO basics – to include keywords in your titles and headings, fill out your meta description, and promote your work on social media.
But to truly stand out in the competitive world of online content, you need to move toward more advanced SEO tips. Here are a few important advanced SEO tips to start including in your blogging strategy.
1. Make Keyword Research Part of Your Planning.
Regular bloggers know how important it is to plan a calendar out in advance. If you don't take the time to plan out topics and deadlines for yourself, you'll have a hard time staying consistent in your publishing. Each time you sit down to plan out your calendar for the coming weeks, spend some time doing keyword research to see what topics your audience is thinking about, and the language they use when looking for information on those topics.
There are a number of useful tools you can use for this. Google's Keyword Planner is free and uses the data the company collects on what people are searching for in the most popular search engine in the world. It supplies both information on roughly how often people search for specific keyword terms and similar keywords people use to the ones you provide.
You can also find phrases people commonly use by paying attention to the similar searches Google provides in the "People also ask" and "Searches related to" sections on the search engine results page.
2. Focus on Long-Tail Keyword Opportunities.
Obviously, you'd love to rank for the general keywords that broadly describe what you do on your blog. If you provide health advice, then showing up when people search "health advice" would mean so many people find you. But if you do a search for that term, you'll notice you're competing with some serious bigwigs. Your blog probably isn't going to unseat Harvard Health, WebMD, and Healthline for those top spots.
These more detailed, specific searches are called long-tail keywords and for the vast majority of websites seeking to improve their SEO, they're the most important keywords to focus on targeting in your efforts. They're less competitive, so you have a better chance of showing up on page one and actually grabbing some of the traffic for that term.
3. Do SERP Research for Every Topic You Blog About.
Not all search engine results pages look the same. With the recent rise in rich results, some searches produce a simple list of links, some include answer boxes up top, some have product ads at the top of the results page, and some have a map of local results that dominate the page.
Knowing what the search results page looks like for the term you're targeting is crucial for knowing how best to optimize your blog posts to land the best spots on the page and make sure your content stands out once you do.
4. Optimize for Rich Results When Relevant.
If your SERP research reveals keywords that do bring up rich results, the approach you take when optimizing your content should be based on the specific type of results that win that page. In some cases, that will mean using schema markup to help your content stand out in the main list of results, in other cases it will mean optimizing your blog post to aim for the featured snippet.
Either way, you have to know what you're targeting in order to know how to take the best approach to achieve it.
5. Optimize Your Images for SEO.
Blogs can't be all about text. Every blog post you publish should include at least one image, and sometimes more. For people better with words than visuals, that can be a challenge, but it's important that you not only take time to find good images for your blog, but that you also use them as an opportunity to do further search engine optimization on your page.
Every image you include in a blog post gives you extra opportunities to add your keyword to the page. You can use the alt text, the image file name, and possibly the caption text (if you can do so naturally and in a way useful to visitors) to insert uses of your keyword onto the page. That's a few more ways to signal to Google what the page is about.
6. Guest Post on Relevant Blogs.
The hardest part of SEO is getting other websites to link back to yours. One of the best ways for bloggers to build links back to theirr blog is to create valuable content for related websites. It can require a lot of work (you already know good content takes work), but it gives you a way to reach a new audience and improve your website's SEO authority.
Identify a few blogs that cover topics similar to or complementary to what you write about and find out if they accept guest posts. Then take some time to get familiar with the types of posts they publish and topics that are most popular with their readers, before coming up with a blog post idea to pitch and write for them.
Be prepared to get some rejections, particularly if you're targeting blogs that have a huge readership. But every guest post you land will introduce your blog to a new audience and provide you with linking opportunities back to your own blog. Just make sure you don't overdo it so your post doesn't look spammy – stick with one or two relevant links back.
7. Add Internal Links to Your Old Posts.
Internal links aren't as valuable as external ones, but they're still an important SEO tactic. Most bloggers know by now to look for opportunities to link back to old posts when you're writing new ones, but how often do you think to revisit your old posts to look for opportunities to link to new posts that have been published since?
Now and then, search your website for the main keywords you had in mind for your recent posts. Anywhere in old posts where you used those keywords or similar ones, add a link to the newer posts with the keyword as anchor text. It's a pretty simple step that can make a real difference.
8. Update Old Posts to Keep Them Current.
Creating new content regularly takes a lot of work. But you can make the work you've already done go further by periodically reviewing your blog to find old posts that are good, but may now be outdated.
Beef these up with updated information and valuable tips or insights you missed the first time around. This is especially useful to do for posts that rank okay, but not great. So anything you're on page 2 or 3 for is worth improving upon so you can try to make it good enough for page one.
9. Feature Influencers in Your Blog Posts.
As with guest posts, finding ways to collaborate with influencers is a useful way to expose your blog to a wider audience. That could mean doing an interview with them, featuring a quote from them, pointing out an example of something they do well in a blog post, or referring back to advice they provided on their site (with a link).
By featuring them, you can get on their radar and may be able to get them to share your blog post with their audience, potentially bringing you new views and followers.
10. Try Out Different Content Formats.
While blogging is primarily associated with writing, it's a format that is much more flexible than that. You can include images, videos, infographics, and podcasts on a blog if you want.
Branching out into new content types may be just the thing to help you reach a new audience or connect with your current audience in new ways. Experiment a bit to see how you like working with new formats and whether or not they result in more shares, more links back to your posts, or more engagement from your audience. Any content format that does is worth creating more of.
Blogging is one of the best things anyone can do to improve SEO, but simply having a blog and publishing posts isn't enough to keep you competitive. Creating regular content that's always good is the hardest part though.
By doing a little extra work to make the hard work you're already doing go further, you can help your audience find you more easily and ensure your content does its job.


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New Zealand schoolkids claim world's biggest haka
Wed, Nov 02, 2016 - 12:48 PM
Around 7,000 New Zealand schoolchildren stomped and bellowed their way through what is believed to be the largest-ever haka on Wednesday, claiming a new world record for the Maori war dance.
[WELLINGTON] Around 7,000 New Zealand schoolchildren stomped and bellowed their way through what is believed to be the largest-ever haka on Wednesday, claiming a new world record for the Maori war dance.
The children performed the haka challenge at a park in Masterton, just outside Wellington, watched closely by local stewards monitoring the event for the Guinness World Records.
The current record was set in 2014, when 4,028 people performed the haka at the grounds of French rugby club CA Brive Correze Limousin.
While Wednesday's figure of around 7,000 is yet to be officially confirmed, local justice of the peace Peter Debney was in no doubt the students had achieved their goal.
"Certainly from my observation, that's been achieved today," he told AFP.
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Masterton Intermediate School principal Russell Thompson, who spent almost a year organising the event, said it was a point of national pride to return the record to the homeland of the haka.
He said the children did not perform the "Ka Mate" haka, which the world champion All Blacks rugby team use as a pre-match challenge.
Instead they opted another version called "Ko Wairarapa", written by a local Maori elder.
"It's a sense of identity I suppose. It tells people where we're from," he said.
The haka originated as a battlefield challenge but is now performed at weddings and funerals, as well as sporting events.
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Q: Binding a function to a prototype in a JavaScript inheritance hierarchy What I want to do is retrofit a serialisation method to an existing JavaScript type, which is a member of an inheritance tree. It is very nearly working, but my function is operating on the parent type rather than the type I am trying to associate it with. So to take a very basic example:
function Animal( species, population )
{
   this.species = species;
   this.population = population;
}

Animal.prototype.getDetail = function()
{
   return "Species: "+this.species+" Population: "+this.population;
}

function Mammal( species, population, bodyTemperature )
{
    Animal.apply(this, [species, population]);
    this.bodyTemperature = bodyTemperature;
}
Mammal.prototype= new Animal();
Mammal.constructor = Mammal;

var Serialise= {
    init: function() {
        Mammal.prototype.serialise = this.serialiseMammal.bind(Mammal.prototype);
    },

    serialiseMammal: function() {
       return {
            species: this.species,
            population: this.population,
            bodyTemperature: this.bodyTemperature
       };
    }
}

Serialise.init();

var bob = new Mammal("Human", 7000000000, 36.6);

console.log( bob.serialise() );

What is happening is that the serialise function is running in the context of the Animal type which is correct because that is the prototype of Mammal, but if I try to bind it directly to the Mammal, nothing happens at all. Once again, I find myself out of my depth in JavaScript's scope.
The reason I am doing this is to keep all my serialisation/deserialisation in one place, so that it's there if I need it, but I don't always have to have it included- I guess in another language it might be behaving slightly like a mixin.
What do I need to do to ensure that the any call of serialise() on an instance of the Mammal type will correctly apply the Serialise.serialiseMammal()function in the context of the current instance? Is there a way of doing this without binding the functions to individual instances when they are created?
I'm also trying to improve my own expertise with the language and doing things in more of a JavaScript way, so if the whole approach is totally wack or against the grain of the language, that would be good to know.

A: I do not fully understand why you want to decorate it this way, as opposed to just putting the specialized serialiseMammal directly on the Mammal.prototype, as below:
Mammal.prototype.s2 = function() {
    return {
        species: this.species,
        population: this.population,
        bodyTemperature: this.bodyTemperature
    };
};

I called this s2 so as not to conflict. This is the identical code from serialiseMammal. However, if you prefer the decorator-style pattern you have used, then you just need to do:
var Serialise= {
    init: function() {
        Mammal.prototype.serialise = this.serialiseMammal;
    },

    serialiseMammal: function() {
        return {
            species: this.species,
            population: this.population,
            bodyTemperature: this.bodyTemperature
       };
    }
}

Within the context of init, then this refers to Serialise, so this.serialiseMammal is the function you have. But it is just a function, nothing more. When you next call bob.serialise(), the function is called in the context of the moment. This, this inside of bob.serialise(), which is the code from serialiseMammal, is set to bob.
Here is a fiddle with it. http://jsfiddle.net/6un6qho1/1/

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Not sure if it belongs here but when I went to register, it told me I needed some special characters in my password, including the possible use of, &.
Cool, one of my common passwords uses the ampersand so I used it and it told me I can't use it. I ended up with two warnings, the original telling me I could use an ampersand and a new one telling me I couldn't.
So I ended up using an asterisk in place of the ampersand which worked but then the page seemed to be transitioning for a long time and finally went to the white screen of death. Obviously, registration was successful though.
Thanks we'll fix the message wrongfully suggestion to use &.
Thanks we'll fix the message wrongfully suggestion to use &.
I should have specified that I was registering here.
OK found it, it's a weird PHP timeout which I cannot explain but I can reproduce it by trying to register myself.
I will drill down on this. Thanks for reporting it.
We fixed this btw. It was a plugin loading settings for all users instead of just for the current one.
When using Softaculous one-click install, they don't care what you input for a password so if you use "&" in it, it doesn't complain but you can't log in to the site after install. btdt Not sure what can be done about that, if anything. It would be up to Softaculous to add something to their form.


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Social media networks fail to root out fake accounts: report
RIGA — Social media companies from Facebook to YouTube are f..
RIGA — Social media companies from Facebook to YouTube are failing to stop people from setting up fake accounts, buying false online followers and promoting inauthentic digital content, according to a new report published Friday by a NATO-accredited group.
The findings — based on analysts purchasing social media manipulation tools and then testing how the companies responded — stand in stark contrast to public statements from Facebook, Twitter and Google that claim they have all significantly clamped down on such activities since the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
But despite those reassurances, researchers at NATOs Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, a military organization based in Riga, Latvias capital, whose mandate includes identifying potential foreign online interference, were able to purchase roughly 54,000 inauthentic social media interactions — either fake followers, likes, comments or views of online content — with little, if any, pushback from some of Silicon Valleys biggest names.
"We assess that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube are still failing to adequately counter inauthentic behaviour on their platforms," Sebastian Bay and Rolf Fredheim, the reports authors, said in the publication.
"Self-regulation is not working. The manipulation industry is growing year by year," they continued. "We see no sign that it is becoming substantially more expensive or more difficult to conduct widespread social media manipulation."
While roughly 10 percent of the paid-for inauthentic activity bought by the NATO-affiliated group had ties to online political campaigns, the lions share of online manipulation tools, including the creation and purchase of fake accounts, was tied to commercial purposes.
That raises potentially hard questions for social media platforms as their business models rely on selling online advertising to other companies, many of which trust these firms to promote their paid-for messages to real online users, and not fake accounts created merely to generate online noise.
In response, the companies defended their record, saying that they had made it more difficult to buy such false interactions across their platforms, and that they had invested, collectively, millions of dollars in new technology and content moderation tools to thwart the worst offenders.
"We have dramatically accelerated the amount of takedowns that we do of networks of external interference on our platforms," Nick Clegg, Facebooks top global lobbyist, told reporters in Brussels on Monday. "This year alone, we have taken down about 50 networks of what we called coordinated inauthentic behavior."
Probing social media
To test social media companies defenses, the Riga-based researchers spent just €300 between May and June of this year on mostly Russian social media manipulation tools that allowed them to purchase 3,500 online comments, more than 25,000 social media likes, 20,000 video views and a further 5,100 fake digital followers.
To avoid meddling in real-world political events, the analysts limited their inauthentic activities to the promotion of innocuous social media content like a Twitter post saying "hello!"
In total, they were able to identify almost 19,000 false online accounts that had been used to manipulate social media platforms in some form. The research also discovered inauthentic behavior tied to roughly 800 political and official government social media pages, including those of two countries presidents and a series of junior-level politicians across the United States and Europe. This activity was primarily to promote false engagement through likes or comments on these pages.
The analysts then reported some of the inauthentic behavior to the companies to gauge their response. In the past, the likes of Facebook and Twitter have been vocal about their ability to thwart such activities, often before users have reported potential abuse.
But after a month of purchasing the social media manipulation tools, the NATO-affiliated researchers said that 80 percent of their fake online engagements were still online. And three weeks after they had reported the abuse, roughly 95 percent of the inauthentic accounts were still active online.
"Given the low number of accounts removed, it is clear that social media companies are still struggling to remove accounts used for social media manipulation, even when the acRead More – Source


I had collected these during the book project hoping they might put them in. But no.
What a wonderful scrapbook from Blanch's life. I'm so glad we have it now. Thank you for your effort on behalf of all of us to honor this wonderful woman.


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02.04.06 Machines for the production of packaging and packaging components / Bottles, jerry cans and similar containers
Machines for the production of packaging and packaging components / Bottles, jerry cans and similar containers
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Product category: Machines for the production of packaging and packaging components / Bottles, jerry cans and similar containers
The ASB-50MB is a 1-step injection stretch blow molding machine, capable of producing containers directly from resin. Originally conceived as a low-cost entry machine for developing countries, this fully automatic machine has rapidly become one of our best sellers, even in many highly developed markets. In accordance with customer requirements, the specifications have been continually upgraded giving improved versatility and productivity. Over 2,000 units have now been delivered by our overseas factory in the machine's first nine years of production.
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All-electric type. Compact, versatile + environment friendly.
In addition to the excellent versatility and reliability of the ASB Series, the ASB-15N/10E is the first and only all-electric 1-step injection stretch blow molding machine in the world. With its clean and remarkably quiet operation, it is ideally suited to mold containers for medicines, cosmetics and foodstuffs. In addition, it has extremely low power consumption which reduces production costs and helps to protect the environment.
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The ASB series are 1-step stretch molding machines with excellent molding flexibility supplying the greatest cost efficiency for their users. The ASB-70DP model range can trace its origins back to 1986 and with continual improvements now exists as the ASB-70DPH v4 and ASB-70DPW v4. Compact, flexible and efficient, the ASB-70DP series are the best selling machines in their class with over 1,700 units having been delivered to our customers all around the world.
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The ASB-70DP Series are mid-sized one-step injection stretch blow molding machines offering a perfect balance of productivity & flexibility that are available in two main variants, the "H" and the "W" model. Both models share a common overall size and structure, that contributes to simplified factory layout, faster operator training and reduced cost of maintenance. Whereas the "H" model provides extremely wide versatility for bottles and large mouth jars in up to 12 cavities, in the "W" variant the container molding portion - including the rotary table, stretch-blow unit and eject station - are re-engineered to enable double row molding of smaller containers with thread sizes up to 57mm diameter. This dramatically increases the potential productivity for bottles up to 1 liter capacity as available cavitation is doubled with up to 24 cavities being possible for containers up to 100ml capacity resulting in a machine that can produce up to 8,000bph* in an extremely compact floor area. * Subject to container specification
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Very high output for small container molding
The ASB-150DPX is the world's first triple row, one step injection stretch blow molding machine optimized to mold small containers at up to 48 cavities achieving outputs in excess of 20,000bph. Sharing a high degree of commonality with its 150DP and 150DPW siblings, the ASB-150DPX offers similar precise molding and extremely robust design coupled with very low energy consumption. The result is a perfect choice for high volume molding providing excellent profitability.
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With a higher specification than the ASB-50MB, the ASB-12M is ideally suited to more demanding applications offering a wider range of molding options for pilot or full scale production. The machine has set new standards for higher cavitation with lower energy consumption through the use of servo driven hydraulic pumps. Molds from previous models can be fitted to this machine with simple modifications. With ASB's Vision1 machine control system, the ASB-12M v2 makes a giant leap in terms of factory integration and ease of use.
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Our company history is also the history of PET bottles. ASB started its business in 1978, one year after the first introduction of PET bottles in Japan (1977). Since then, the lightweight property, safety, and recyclability of plastic materials, especially PET, have been widely recognized around the world, leading to the widespread use of plastics. Plastic containers are used to contain a great variety of products, from refreshing beverages to liquors, seasoning agent, detergents, and pharmaceutical agents. We expect that the use of plastic containers will be become increasingly popular in the future in a diverse range of fields.
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Kandhamal violence could have been prevented
The communal violence in Odisha's Kandhamal district in 2008 that claimed 38 lives could have been avoided had the state government acted promptly, a Christian leader told a probe commission Saturday.
Kandhamal, about 200km from Bhubaneshwar, witnessed widespread violence after the murder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his aides at his ashram in Jalespata village on August 23, 2008.
At least 38 people were killed and more than 25,000 Christians were forced to flee their homes in 2008 after their houses were attacked by mobs, who accused Christians for killing Saraswati, although police had blamed the Maoists for the ashram killings.
Disposing before the Justice AS Naidu Commission which is probing into the violence, Odisha Minority Forum (OMF) president Swarupananda Patra said the government also did not take a step to put a stop to the rumors at that time.
"Although the government took care of the people who suffered, it could have prevented it from happening," Patra told IANS citing the points he raised before the commission.
The government did not provide adequate security protection sought by Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati.
"It also did not take steps to stop the rumors after the murder of the Saraswati which eventually contributed to the spread of violence," he said.
Patra also accused the chief minister (Naveen Patnaik ) of 'losing the human element' as he did not visit a relief camp in Bhubaneswar that had housed hundreds of riots' victims.
"The chief minister did not visit a relief camp even if it was situated within two kilometers from his residence in Bhubaneswar" Patra said.
More than 150 people including government officials and eyewitnesses have so far deposed before the one-man headed commission that is probing into the killing of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and the subsequent communal riots in the state.
The commission is likely to hear about 50 more people. The next hearing is scheduled to be held in Kandhamal district March 6-7-8.
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Pastors arrested in Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh, February 21, 2013: Pas. D. Naveen Kumar and his fellow pastors were arrested at Yadagirigutta and remanded to jail at Bhongiri District of Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh. The pastor and his associate were arrested at scene of the crime on the complaint given by one Srinivas.
The Pastor was invited to offer prayers by a family on the occasion of a birthday at Tulasi Garden, which is proposed colony of 100 cottages under construction. These are the daily wage laborers who had migrated from outside. While they were attending the family prayer, some BJP and RSS volunteers reportedly attacked them and dragged them to the police station on false allegations of conversion. The police at Yadagirigutta framed charges under sections 295 A & 298 of the Indian Penal Code for hurting religious sentiments and blasphemy of other gods
According to the sub-inspector, they were not supposed to preach in the temple towns, according to a Government Order Nos. 746 and 747 and hence were arrested.
Franklin Sudhaker of the Andhra Pradesh chapter of the All India Christian Council took them to the Bhongiri Muncif Court where they were remand till 11 February, 2013. He is also working with Advocate P. Sridher for their bail. Pastors Naveen and Bro. Balraj who were also earlier arrested and remanded to Bhongiri Sub-Jail on 28.1.2013.
The CSF has a copy of the Remand Report from the police station. A petition was given to Bhongiri Town Dy. Superintendent of Police, M. Srinivasa by a rally of 200 about Christians from the area.
As reported by CSF
Labels: andhra pradesh, arrested, attack, falsely accused
Christian women attacked in AP–AICC Report
From AICC. You can view the original page here.
Hyderabad: The Hindutva activists have attacked the Christian women at Saffilguda in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh on 25th February, 2013.
On 25th February, while the group of women were passing through, Hindutva activist and a political leader Mr. Narsing Goud believed to be from the same place started shouting at the Christian women with abusive words, accusing them destroying the Hindu culture. He kept on using abusive words until more people joined him. When more people joined Mr. Narsing Goud, they advanced toward the women and start beating the women causing wounds and marks on them, the attackers snatched their hand bags and mobile phones and left the place.
The Hindutva activists have misbehaved with women and also talked ill of Christianity and the Holy Bible. Immediately Pastor Purushottam went to Naredmet police station and gave a complaint against them for their nasty behaviour. Police promised to act on the complaint given.
All India Christian Council condemned the attack on the women and enquired from the police and asked police to take stern action on those who attacked on the Christian women.
AICC Fact-Finding team is planning to visit to assess the situation for further course of action.
Labels: andhra pradesh, attack, attack on faith, gender violence
Joint national fact finding on gender violence in Cuttack, Odisha
Recommendation to the church for a 10 Point Policy on Gender Violence
The inter denominational and NGOs team which undertook a fact finding visit to Kandhamal, Orissa, between 23 and 26 February 2013 made a series of suggestions to the Orissa government on the basis of their findings of the acute nature of gender violence in the region. Following are suggestions made to the Church in India in general, and particularly to groups active in Kandhamal and other tribal areas.
1. The Church must adopt a policy of Zero Tolerance on gender violence both in society and within the church.
2. Church leadership must orient the priests, pastors, women religious, NGOs and laity to be gender sensitive in their word and deed.
3. Church leadership must respond pro-actively on gender and justice issues to defend the rights and dignity of women and girl children.
4. Make gender equality in churches visible and witnessing to the liberating gospel of Christ.
5. Evaluate mission performance for the last 5 years, particularly on gender issues to address them more strategically in the coming years
6. Empower local congregations on justice and peace from gender perspectives and build legal awareness among church bodies
7. Promote the philosophy that 'Positive rebellion is the need of the hour in the context of patriarchal oppression of women and girls.'
8. Create space for young people to creatively use their talents and skills to counter the culture of gender violence.
9. Adopt policy of zero tolerance in the church in relation to paedophilia.
10. Ensure concerted and centralised co-ordination between the churches and the denominations on gender violence to build pressure on the governments to address the issues.
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JOINT NATIONAL FACT FINDING TEAM ON GENDER VIOLENCE IN KANDHAMAL-ORISSA
ADMINISTRATION, POLICE FAR AWAY FROM "ZERO TOLERANCE" OF RAPE; COMPENSATION STILL NOT PAID TO VICTIMS
NEED FOR FAST TRACK COURTS, HELP LINE AND COUNSELLING
The Government of Orissa needs to take urgent steps to enforce a"Zero Tolerance Regime" against rape cases in the State, specially in vulnerable hinterland districts such as Kandhamal with large populations of marginalized Dalit and Tribal people.
An All India Fact finding team on gender violence which toured Kandhamal and interacted with State and District authorities from 23rd to 26th February 2013 discovered that despite the national focus after the New Delhi rape and murder case, Orissa has not yet assimilated the administrative recommendations of the Justice Verma Committee into the functioning of district police and units of the Women and Child Welfare Department. There is also a feeling that since the anti Christian violence in 2007 and 2008 and the very large number of acquittals in criminal cases, the people seem not to fear the law as much as they should. The fact finding ream consisted of representatives of CBCI Women's Desk, National council of Churches in India, All India Christian Council, EFI, ADF, and YWCA National Council.
A grass roots survey involving interviews with victim-survivors and families of murdered girls shows a shocking state of affairs typified in the rape of a six year old of K Nuagaon Blockin one case, and 13 to 14 years old girls attacked in Darringbadi. The situation demands that senior officials be held accountable for dereliction of duties by the subordinate police.
None of the rape victims have yet received any of the statutory compensation. It is absurd that the victim has to make an application pleading for compensation. The authorities must give such compensation suomotu, as was done in the case of the Delhi victim.
However, in the case of the murder of the 13 year old girl in Doddomah-Simanbadi village, the police have filed a charge-sheet in the court against two men. A third accused is a juvenile.
Police have not been able to explain the high number of acts of sexual violence against young girls. One senior officer dismisses them as "failed love affairs". The team expresses disappointment at official statements that they register FIRs because of the pressure of parents "even where no actual rape had taken place." Many parents insist there has been refusal to register complaints, or long delay at the police station. In some cases, police and village committees have sought to force the victims into compromising with the assailants instead of dealing with the crime under law.
According to data given by District Superintendent of Police J.N.Pankaj, the number of rapes has come down in 2012 to 21 cases from a high of 32 cases in 2011 and 25 cases in 2010.
However, NGO groups have saidthey had recorded at least nine cases from 24th October 2012 till 15th February 2013 and there were many other cases they were probing.
The absence of a forensic science laboratory in the Kandhamal district, the absence of women personnel in many police stations, the fact there is no Special Juvenile Police Unit, and skeletal staff with almost no facilities in the women's welfare units in the district aggravates the situation,making women more vulnerable.
The fact finding group was also disturbed at the very large number of women in Kandhamal who had been deserted by their husbands. In most cases, the women were from Dalit or Tribal communities, and the men from other castes, specially "outsiders" including many traders doing business in the small towns.
Another area of concern was the situation in the government–run hostels in the district where as many as 10,000 tribal and Dalit girls stay and study inattached schools. The security of these schools and hostels has not got the attention it deserves from the authorities, and there have been cases of girls from hostels being lured and seduced by outsiders.
There is an urgent need for a gender situation survey in Kandhamal district which should cover the girls hostels, the issue of abandoned women and the crisis of human trafficking in Kandhamal girls in particular and Orissa girls in general. Police admit they have identified the vulnerable blocks and villages, but there is no system in place to check the crime. Step need be taken to ensure change in the mindset of all people, specially officials.
In its suggestions, the team has called for urgent steps to sensitise police and officials at all levels on gender violence issues, apart from launching education programmesthrough mass media, TV and extension services. Sex education as a subject in schools, orientation of village committees and gram panchayats need to be taken up immediately. Local hospitals must carry out medical examinations by women doctors whenever a victim comes, instead of making the girl and her parents to go from one place to another.
In prevention of crime, patrolling has to be intensified where large crowds congregate in the urban areas for fetes and fairs and people have to return home in the dark, making young girls specially vulnerable to sexual predators.
Other measures suggested include steps for counseling and rehabilitation of victims of gender violence, specially very young children apart from legal services percolating to the grassroots. The Helpline for women must be activated.
The fact finding team consisted of Dr. John Dayal, Member National Integration Council and Secretary general, All India Christian Council, Advocate Sr. Helen Saldanah [CBCI office for Women] Advocate Sr. Mary Scaria, Advocate Loreign Ovung [ADF_EFI], Sr. Justine, Ms. Lena Chand [YWCA India], Sukant Nayak and Ashish Bhasin [Light Foundation] and Mr. Kasta Dip [India Peace Centre - National Council of Churches in India]
Copies of their suggestions are being forwarded to the State and Central governments and the Commissions for Women and Children.
FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS MADE BY THE FACT FINDING TEAM ON GENDER VIOLENCE IN KANDHAMAL
BASIC FINDINGS:
1. Sexual violence against women in Kandhamal is due to the breakdown of the law and order situation in the district that gives a feeling to the culprits that they can get away with the law easily.
2. Gender violence including child molestation, rape and murder has led to moral breakdown and manifested in incest, adultery and bigamy with desertion coupled with cruelty.
3. Lack of medical examination facilities for the victims impede and delay the process of justice.
4. An imposed culture of silence in which victims are not willing to voice the assault on them is due to threats from the accused and their families and friends.
5. Lack of fast track courts for women, Mahila Thanas (Women Police Station) and women police officers discourage the victims of sexual violence to follow up their cases.
6. Lack of juvenile homes in the district while the juvenile crimes are on the increase is a violation of the human rights of the juvenile criminals.
7. Lack of education and awareness about their rights especially among the dalit and tribal communities lead to their sexual exploitation by Upper Caste people.
8. Absence of payment of compensation, lack of rehabilitation facilities and trauma counselling centres for victims of rape continue to traumatize them
9. Prevalent dowry system and patriarchal mind set of people make them utterly vulnerable to sexual violence.
10. Lack of gender sensitivity among the police officials leads to further humiliation, insults of the victims of rape.
11. Negligence and passive role on the part of the police to accelerate the process of justice by refusing to register the FIRs destroys the confidence of the victims and their families to speak out against the atrocities being committed against them
12. After the communal riots of 2008, the minority communities are being threatened especially targeting their women and children for sexual exploitation.
13. Forcible inter caste marriages happening for acquisition of the tribal property and desertion of the women after acquiring their property seems to be a common phenomenon.
SUGGESTIONS TO THE ADMINISTRATION:
1. Adopt Zero tolerance policy to curb violence against minor girls and women.
2. Justice Verma Commission Report to be implemented with immediate effect.
3. Adequate compensation to be given to the victims.
4. Set up Fast Track courts to try the rape victims.
5. Conduct a survey on Gender violence in Kandhamal and bring out statistics in order to take adequate measures to prevent sexual assault and rape against minor girls and women.
6. Organize awareness programs regarding the rights of the victims and their families.
7. Make medical examination of rape victims mandatory.
8. Filing of FIRs to be made compulsory in every police station and officers who fail to perform their duties should be prosecuted.
9. Establish child care centres/crèche for children of daily labourers and wage earners.
10. Adequate women police officers to be posted in every police station and establish Mahila Thana (Women's Police Station) in order to protect the integrity and dignity of the victim.
11. Sex education should be given to the children from Class I onwards.
12. Special focus on abandoned and deserted women and set up homes for women in distress.
13. Establish self defence schools for girls and women.
14. Establish and maintain help lines for women and children.
15. Establish trauma counselling centres and rehab centres in every block for the victims
16. Make provision for rehabilitation and employment opportunities including vocational training and education to victims of rape and other forms of gender violence.
17. Juvenile Homes and cells to be set up for rehabilitation and reformation of the juvenile offenders.
18. Review existing security measures of the girl's hostels run by the government and ensure security for the girls. Establish hostels for working women.
19. Implement and utilise Govt. funds for the benefit of victims of rapes and gender violence.
20. Deploy adequate police force both male and female during major festivals and ensure frequent patrolling in sensitive areas and hamlets
21. Provide financial help to run minority women's and girls' hostels.
22. Village Committees to have 50% of women participants and to ensure that the justice process is carried out.
23. Activate all Government Commissions with adequate representation of women.
24. Adequate representations of SC, ST, SCBC communities in State Legislature and all women's commissions.
Labels: fact finding, gender violence, kandhamal
Attack on revival meeting sends Christians underground in Chhattisgarh
As police looked on, militants attacked a Christian church in central India earlier this month, causing severe injuries to some and sending the pastor into hiding, according to witnesses.
According to a story by World Watch Monitor, the assault took place during the second day of a revival meeting earlier this month at India Christian Assembly of God Church in the city of Rajnandgaon. That's about 72 kilometers west of Raipur, the capital of the mostly rural, and overwhelmingly Hindu, state of Chhattisgarh.
World Watch Monitor said the revival meeting included a graduation ceremony of 14 students who attended a short Bible training program. About 300 Christians had gathered to witness the ceremony and attend the revival meeting. Attendees came from the neighboring states of Maharashtra, West Bengal, Orissa, and Madhya Pradesh.
"Everything went well on the first day of the meeting until the afternoon of the second day," a witness told World Watch Monitor. The witness asked not to be named in order to avoid possible retribution from the attackers.
World Watch Monitor said at about 3pm, a group of more than 30 young men disrupted the meeting. They began to interrogate the pastor, Thomas Abraham, and other church leaders, who protested the interruption.
The witness said the intruders were from several Hindu nationalist groups, including Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, and Dharma Sena.
"They started to manhandle and beat people, tear Bibles, abused the God of Christians and strode over children," World Watch Monitor reported the witness said. More attackers joined in, their faces covered, and armed with sticks and iron rods. Men, women and children were beaten. Church property and vehicles were damaged.
"There was chaos and Christians started to flee for their lives in whichever direction they could," the witness said.
Police were called, but they did not intervene and "played the role of mere spectators," the witness told World Watch Monitor.
Attacks continued until 6pm, the witness said. Some Christians, from Maharashtra and Orissa, suffered injuries behind the ear and to the eye from being struck with iron rods. They were admitted to a nearby hospital for treatment, though later they left the hospital without informing the authorities.
Christian leaders from Rajnandgaon told World Watch Monitor they approached the superintendent of police, who came to the scene of the attack and began an investigation. He was stymied, however, because Abraham, the pastor, had disappeared. Police are watching the church building and are searching for Abraham.
World Watch Monitor said India is 31 on the 2013 World Watch List, a ranking of the 50 countries where being a Christian is most difficult.
Though Christians live openly without challenge in many parts of huge and diverse India, nationalistic Hindutva movements in some regions have attacked Christian communities with regularity, according to Open Doors International, which publishes the list. Open Doors is a worldwide ministry to persecuted Christians.
Christians forced to discontinue journey in order to save lives
February 25, 2013: In a shocking incident 10 Christian travelers were threatened, harassed and intimated to such an extent that they had to abandon travel.
10 Christians were en route from various locations in Chhattisgarh to Betul to attend a Christian seminar. They were aboard the Chhattisgarh express and the last one alighted the train from Dongargarh station.
The Christians were all scattered in different coaches according to their reservations and in one of the coaches identified now as the S2 coach, some RSS people were also travelling.
While speaking as fellow passengers the Christians let the people know the purpose of their visit and destination, unaware that the people they are disclosing this information to are Hindu Fundamentalists. They soon found out though when the RSS cadres began interrogating them as if they had committed a crime.
The RSS activists then called all the other RSS members, also scattered in different coaches, who incidentally were also travelling to Nagpur for a RSS meeting. The Christians were threatened, abused verbally with the choicest of bad words and asked where the rest of the Christians were. They were also manhandled. According to reports the RSS people abused the Christian faith too and made denigrating statements about the faith and beliefs of Christians.
The RSS cadres also made calls from their mobile phones to RSS activists in Wardha and Nagpur (both upcoming stations) and asked them to turn up at those stations to 'take care' of the Christians.
As per reports from a local Pastor in Rajnandgaon, 5 Christians escaped, when the train reached Gondia station. As this is being written, 5 Christians including four women are untraceable. It is not known whether the RSS activists have kidnapped them or they too have escaped.
Posted by Christian Persecution India at 11:38 PM
Labels: anti christian propaganda, attack, attack on faith, chhattisgarh, falsely accused, threat
Pastor arrested by Police in Madhya Pradesh
23 February 2013: According to reports received, Pastor Ramesh Pargi from Shalom Mission was arrested by the local police at Sadeda, Madhya Pradesh.
The local police took him to the police station at about 10 pm.
Labels: arrested, madhya pradesh
Hindu fundamentalists attack Christian birthday party celebration alleging forced conversions in Madhya Pradesh
Around 15 extremists belonging to Hindu fundamentalist groups ambushed a group of pastors who were guests at a private function at Dumartola, Bajag Village, near Dindori, Madhya Pradesh.
Pastor Mannulal Rajdwar (63), Rev. Dinesh Ramteke, Pastor Tirath Patta and Pastor Vimlendra Jhariya were invited for a birthday party at a local Christian's house at Dumartola. Around 100 people were in attendance.
After a brief prayer service led by Rev. Ramteke from the Assemblies of God Church Jabalpur and party celebrations, the pastors were leaving the host's house, when around 15 people arrived with weapons and started threatening the pastors with dire consequences alleging that they were converting people to Christianity.
The attackers were accompanied by the local TV news channel crew from Bansal TV which demonstrates that the attack was well thought of and the TV crew was recording each moment of the proceedings.
When the present Christians, especially the ladies confronted the attackers, they did not beat the pastors but kept on abusing them, till the police came.
It turned out that the attackers had already lodged a complaint at the police station before gate crashing the Christian party.
The police took the pastors to the police station, where they were questioned, but were let go when certain agencies intervened.
No FIR was filed against the Christians or by them. But this incident clearly demonstrates how the fundamentalists are emboldened by the local vernacular media (print and audio visual).
Labels: attack, attack on faith, bajrang dal, falsely accused, madhya pradesh
Christians targeted in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh.
News reports like the above highlight Christian evangelism as though it was a crime. At the same time the newspaper itself acts as an evangelism tool for the majority community (See clips below). All the clips are from the same day. How do we address hatred spread by the so called news media? If the newspaper is merely reporting incidents, then why does the headline sound like an accusation and judgment together? (Pralobhan dekar dharmantaran ki koshish)
Meanwhile attempts to bail the pastors have proved futile. The lower court has rejected their bail application.
Pastors arrested in India after being beaten up
Pastor Mallik Arjun knew something was wrong when he received a call from the mobile phone of his friend and fellow pastor in Gadag District, Karnataka state – but it was a stranger on the other end of the line.
The stranger told him that Pastor Nagesh Naik was being held at a hotel near Korlahalli village and to come and find him. It was a Sunday evening, Feb. 3, after Pastor Arjun's colleague had led a home worship of the Gypsy Mission church in a neighboring village.
"I went with three church members on two motorbikes, and we were looking for such hotel all through the way and could not find one," Pastor Arjun, of the Indian Pentecostal Church, told Morning Star News. "Finally we found a mob swelling up in a temple, and that was where they kept him – and as soon as we reached the temple, they accused us of forceful conversion and started to attack me, Pastor Nagesh and the other three Christians."
At Hanumanthappa temple in Korlahalli village, near Mundargi, the Hindu extremists beat and kicked the Christians, threatened to set them on fire and tried to force them to worship Hindu idols, Pastor Arjun said.
"They told us they will rape our wives and give twin children to us," he said. "I have never heard such foul abuse in my entire life."
Earlier, at about 7 p.m., some 200 Hindu extremists led by Laxman Gaji and another who goes by a single name, Gudadirayya, had stopped Pastor Naik as he made his way home after leading a worship service at a Christian's home in Sugar Factory quarters, near Sharanahalli village, according to attorney Moses Muragavel. They then took him to the temple before calling Pastor Arjun, said Muragavel, of the Karnataka Legal Aid Cell.
At one point during the ordeal, Pastor Arjun said, he kneeled down in a corner of the temple and began to pray.
"One extremist gripped me on my back, dragged me up and said, 'You are even praying to Jesus even in a Hindu temple,' and then he tried to force me to worship Hindu idols," he said. "I asked him why he was forcing me to worship idols and told him that nobody can force me, and I have the right to choose the God that I worship."
Pastor Naik added that the Hindu nationalists then threatened to set the Christians afire with kerosene.
"They were shouting to each other to take petrol from our bikes and burn us up," he said, adding that another extremist stopped them, saying, 'Do you want the whole village to go to jail?'"
Pastor Arjun said that the assailants then demanded that they leave Jesus and proclaim, "Praise my motherland, praise Lord Ram and praise Lord Krishna."
"I told them that I will never leave Jesus – that I can say, 'Praise my motherland,' but I will never say Jai Shree Ram or Jai Shree Krishna," Pastor Arjun said. "The extremists became more furious, and they continued to slap, kick and push us, and tore off our clothes."
The extremists also denigrated Pastor Naik for his Lamani ("gypsy") ethnic origin, saying he had converted to Christianity because he came from low caste, said Pastor Francis Xavier, president of Gadag Pastor Association.
Pastor Arjun received treatment at Mundargi Government Hospital for injuries to his right ear, back and nose, as did Pastor Naik for injuries to his head and neck, besides bruises covering his body. The other three church members received minor bruises.
The Hindu nationalists took the Christians to Mundargi Rural Police Station at about 10:30 that night and filed a complaint of forcible conversion. The two pastors were released at about 5 a.m. on Feb. 4 but had to report back to the police station at 10 a.m.
Police charged them with "promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs," and "acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention" under the Indian Penal Code.
The pastors were released on bail on Feb. 7, but they have to report to the police station on the second Sunday of every month until the charges against them are dropped.
Last Sunday (Feb. 10), Police Inspector Sunil A. Savdi and two officers from the Mundargi Police Station went to the Indian Pentecostal Church and questioned members about how long they had attended the church; how they came to know about it; and whether they had been offered money to attend.
All members said that they had come to the church on their own free will.
Labels: arrested, beaten, karnataka
Indian evangelist and mother jailed in Karnataka
An Indian evangelist and his mother were jailed in India's southwestern state of Karnataka for their evangelism activities amid a wider crackdown on Christians, before being released on bail, their supporters told BosNewsLife Monday, February 18.
Evangelist Pradeep, 30, and Chowdamma, 60, "are the latest victims of persecution of Christians in Karnataka by the fundamentalist Hindus" who oppose their mission which include "fearlessly demonstrating...faith in Christ's teachings," said advocacy group Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC).
"We at GCIC were able to bail out our brother Pradeep [and his mother]", GCIC representative Regi Abraham told BosNewsLife. "They were released February 11," after three days behind bars, he said. The exact amount of the bail was not immediately announced.
Both Christians, who apparently only use one name, are part of the Karnataka Evangelical Ministry of Mysore, a mission group.
PRAYER MEETING ATTACKED
Witnesses said troubles began Friday, February 8, when both visited two Christian women, Jyothi and Lakshmi, to pray for them at their hom in Bellahalli village in the state's Mandya District.
While the evangelist and his mother began praying, some 20 Hindu militants of the hardline Nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) or 'National Volunteer Organization' reportedly barged into the house.
The militants allegedly intimidated and physically attacked both Pradeep and his mother Chowdamma, accusing them of "forced conversion of Hindus to Christianity."
Christians said both of them were injured in the attack, with Evangelist Pradeep sustaining injuries on his lips as well as a number of bruises on his face.
"The Hindu radicals then forcibly took both the mother and the son by bus to the Pandavpura Police Station and handed them over to the police falsely alleging that the two were fraudulently and forcibly converting Hindus to Christianity by offering them money," GCIC said.
POLICE LAUNCHING INVESTIGATION
After they were hospitalized, police began criminal proceedings on charges of "forced conversions", sending them to pretrial detention in the Mandya Sub Jail, before GCIC managed to finance their conditional release, Christians said. It was not yet clear when the trial of the accused would start.
Police could not immediately be reached for comment, but Karnataka is among several states where authorities are cracking down on "forced conversions" a word often used for evangelism activities, according to rights activists.
Evangelical Christians have denied wrongdoing, saying the Bible makes clear that faith in Jesus Christ is only based on a free, personal choice, and that other religions it is impossible to "convert" people by force.
Local officials have been pressured by Hindu militants to crackdown on the spread of Christianity, including among Dalits, considered the 'lowest caste' in India's ancient system of Hinduism.
India, a heavily Hindu nation of over 1 billion people, has seen a rise in attacks against devoted Christians and their churches, including in Karnataka.
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Christian arrested in Andhra Pradesh
On 10 February, police arrested Mr. P. Anand in Basara, Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh after Hindu extremists accused him of forceful conversion.
According to reports from EFI, Mr. P. Anand , a Central Government servant, visited some Christian students on their request in Rajiv Gandhi University in Knowledge and Technologies in Basara, Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh for some academic discussion and prayers in one room.
Suddenly, a group of Hindu extremists forcefully entered the room, verbally abused them and accused Anand of forceful conversion and contacted the local police in Basara.
Subsequently, Satish Kumar, Sub Inspector of Police, reached the college and took Anand to the Police Station for verification and thereafter booked a case against him under various Sections of the Indian Penal Code including 153 A for Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion.
Mr. P. Anand was released on bail at about 5 pm on 12 February.
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Pastors arrested in Karnataka – EFI report
On Feb 3 in Mundargi, Gadag District, police arrested Pastor Mallik Arjun and Pastor Nagesh Naik after the Hindu extremists beat them up.
EFI reported that at about 7: 00 p.m. the extremists stopped Pastor Nagesh Naik on the road as he was returning home after conducting a prayer meeting, verbally abused him and took him to Hanumanthappa temple. Later they called up Pastor Arjun and told him to come to a hotel where they took Pastor Naik.
Pastor Arjun went with three church members and found Pastor Naik in a Hindu temple surrounded by a mob of about 200 extremists.
"They started pushing, slapping and kicking at us as soon as we entered the temple and accused us of forceful conversion." informed pastor Arjun. The extremists also threatened us that they will sexually assault our wives and give us twin children, he added.
The extremists also abused Pastor Naik on his Lamani Caste and told him that he has converted to Christianity because he has come from the lowest caste, reported our correspondent.
Thereafter they took the two pastors to the police station at about 10:30 p.m. and they were kept in custody till 5 a.m the next day.
On the same day, the Christians reported back at the police station at about 10:00 a.m and they were sent to the Central jail later in the evening. The Christians were released on bail on 7 Feb.
"Four Hindu extremists were also arrested under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Atrocity Act 1989 and were sent to the Central jail for abusing Pastor Nagesh Naik on the base of his Lamani Caste" reported Advocate Moses Muragavel from the Karnataka Legal Aid Cell.
Christian workers arrested in Orissa
On 18 January in Dubia village, Baripada district, police arrested two Christians, Bahadur Murmu and Rama Soreng from New Creation Church when they were having a prayer meeting in the house of one Christian.
According to EFI, which reported the incident, the police came with Hindu extremists who accused the Christians of forceful conversion and hurled verbal abused at them.
The police arrested Bahadur Murmu and Rama Soreng under the Odisha Freedom of Religion Act based on the extremists complaint against them of forceful conversion.
Pastor Rajesh Digal, area pastor said "There was a great positive transformation among the convert Christians after they accept Christ and this angered the extremists."
The Christians were sent to Baripada jail and they were released on bail on 20 Jan at 6:30 p.m.
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Evangelists arrested by police in Andhra on complaint of RSS and Hindu Vahini members
P. Anand, a Christian based in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh was ambushed by members of the RSS and Hindu Vahini on February 10, 2013. He was later arrested.
Anand who is also a NTPC employee at Ramgundam and a volunteer with Evangelical Union had gone to conduct a Bible study, as usual, with Christian students belonging to the EU. The students had gathered at the IIIT Basar which is in Adilabad District of Andhra Pradesh.
On the complaint of the RSS and Hindu Vahini member Mr. Ravi Pandey, the police arrested Anand and he was charged under three sections of the Indian Penal Code.
He was finally bailed out on February 12, 2013 after much effort.
Labels: andhra pradesh, arrested, attack, Hindu Vahini, rss
Christians attacked by mob in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh
A Christian meeting was attacked by a violent mob comprising of Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena people in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh on February 8, 2013.
The India Christian Assembly Church of God which is based at Rajnandgaon for the last 20 years was observing a three day revival meeting.
The ministry was also having a graduation ceremony for around 14 students who had completed a six months theological course from the Church institute.
According to reports, around 300 people were in attendance at the time of the attack which was aroubnd 3 pm.
The attackers were carrying weapons and used them to strike the crowds which dispersed as soon as the attack started.
Women and children too were not spared but were beaten up mercilessly. According to reports the attackers kicked the children and stomped on them. They also tore bibles, abused Christian gods and shouted slogans against the Christian community.
The police were called as soon as the attack started but they did nothing and remained mute spectators while the Hindutva organizations wreaked mayhem on the people left for nearly three hours.
Christians were stranded in bus stations and train stations for hours after the incident, many in injured conditions and needed help.
Some of the injured who had been admitted in the hospital have disappeared from there.
Labels: attack, beaten, bible school students, chhattisgarh, Church attack
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