Dear Rev Ilie Tomuta
Greetings from New Delhi.
I am forwarding the May issue of “Tortured for Christ”.
I am sad to inform you that Mr. AJAY DAS from Orissa who was working for the last 7 years in New Delhi office and another 7 years in Michael Job centre lost both of his eyes, fractured left leg and his hip by a car accident on 15th April 2010. His wife is an uneducated lady who cannot do any work to maintain the family, and he has a son of 5 years. He has two brothers in his family. One of his brothers is blind by birth and another brother is a day to day labour.
In this critical moment I need your support to give him a future. I would like to hear from you if you can do something to help towards his future.
His photograph taken by me on 3rd May in Coimbatore hospital is given below.
Yours in His Service,
Dr. P.P. Job
MAY 2010
Gold Medal Once Again
to Michael Job Group of Institutions, Coimbatore
Mrs. Gokula Vani – student of Michael Job Memorial College of Education for Women
receives Gold Medal Award for securing First Rank in Coimbatore District from Dr. K. Ponmudy,
Higher Education Minister, Government of Tamil Nadu in the presence of Dr. T. Padmanaban,
Vice Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University.
EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION FOR WOMEN
There are 1500 girl students in Michael Job Institutions in Coimbatore, India. It is my ultimate aim to provide them the best quality of education in the campus itself.
The Upper House (Rajya Sabha) of the Indian Parliament recently passed a resolution providing for 33% reservation for women in all the constituencies of the parliament. In India, there is a tendency for the parents to get their girl children married before the age of twenty years as a result of which they end up as housewives in their early youth. In U S A and Europe women continue education even after marriage, but it is very rare in India. In India, the parents – in the villages mainly and even in the cosmopolitan cities – consider it inappropriate to allow their daughter to remain unmarried after attaining the age of twenty years.
In Tamil Nadu, where our institutions are located, the first menstruation of their daughters is celebrated in a big way. Invitation cards are printed and invitations extended to relatives and friends. I get several such invitations as there are many day scholars in the school. This tradition might have been introduced in the olden days as an occasion to inform relatives and friends that the daughter is ready for marriage.
In our institutions, our professors and leaders explain to the girls the importance of education encouraging them to obtain at least a bachelors degree before thinking about marriage. Their parents might be thinking that getting their daughter educated is not more important than getting her married early. Their view is that they have to give a lot of money as dowry for a girl’s marriage and this burden increases if the girl is educated more. Such thinking of the parents is the cause of discontinuation of education for girls, in many cases beyond the school level and for more girls to the undergraduate or postgraduate levels.
Centuries old traditions in the country are very difficult to change. In Indian culture, tradition have priority. However, education can provide relevant stimulus for the social changes for improving the status of women in our culture. Every year, there are 100 B.Ed. graduates and 25 M.Ed. postgraduates passing out of Michael Job Memorial College of Education for Women. These graduate and postgraduate teachers fan out to the entire country as catalysts for change. We encourage all of them to begin a small class, even under a tree in a village for conveying to the local people – men, women or children – the ideals in them to work for the betterment of the women. They can be the light of each village or small town where they reach and work. We are also planning to raise funds for this purpose. India has innumerable villages, small towns and many large cities. Removing the darkness of ignorance from the people and encouraging the tradition to bring honour to the women is the need of the hour. We have to open our minds to higher education, for saving the girls and providing them freedom from the many shackles of customs.
If you educate a boy, you educate one. But if you educate a girl, you educate a society and the next generation. Christian missions should give priority for the education of girls and the betterment of women in the society. A mother is the cornerstone of a home. For most of the religions, mother gods are important. However many religions do not give positions of importance to the women in the hierarchy of their organizations or the religion. The decision of the Indian Parliament is an eye opener in this context. Let the Christian leaders open their eyes.
Jesus was a social revolutionary. He fought the hypocrisy and evil traditions of the Jewish nation. The Jewish community was following the practice of circumcision which was made a criterion for the membership of the community. This was to monopolise the positions for men and to relegate the women to the second position. In the earlier days there was a prayer for the Jews in Talmud “God I thank you that I am not born as a dog or a woman” In such a social background, Jesus had introduced water baptism even though it is a ritual. The big significance of this is that woman is also able to partake and is a part of God’s Kingdom. Jesus after his resurrection first appeared to Mary Magdalene, a woman and not to St. Peter. We also read from the Bible that St. Paul sent the letters to Romans through a lady emissary. My mother was a devoted Christian. She was very strong in her faith and was instrumental in bringing me up to serve Christ as a full time worker. She was my Pastor and Guiding Star.
Let us bring the light of education and health to the girls so that our community and the nation is benefitted.
We are organizing a huge awareness rally against discrimination of girls on 30th June, 2010 in Coimbatore City. We expect that about 15,000 girls and women will be attending this huge rally on that day. Dr. (Mrs.) Saroja Prabhakaran, Vice Chancellor of Avinashilingam University has consented to flag off the rally.
In our country, there are 50 lakh (5 million) abortions of female foetuses take place in the Government Hospitals alone, not to mention an equal or more number in the private hospitals. 25,000 women are burnt alive in North India and 2,000 girls in our country go missing every day!
It is told of the women of our country that they are slaves throughout their life time. In the childhood they are the slaves of their parents, then their husbands and finally of their own children. Give the women of India true freedom. Help us to empower girls.
Michael Wurmbrand,
son of late Rev. Richard Wurmbrand
Nearly one year ago to the day, in connection with the Centenary event, a few visitors from outside Romania, my family included, was given the opportunity to visit one of the worst prisons my parents, Richard and Sabina, were held and tortured in. Though in Romania, communism fell from power, the prison not only still exists but is in use, even if only in a more recently built modern wing. The video shows the actual old quarters where political and Christian prisoners were held during communism even as late as the 1970s. Interviews on the premises also with Hans Braun, Tom White, Merv Knight and Michael Wurmbrand.
To see this 25′ English subtitled video, click on the following line or paste this address in your browser: www.allconnectonline.com/jilava/RW.htm
A visitor to Michael Job Centre writes…
I want to express my deep appreciation for the opportunity to spend time with you at the Michael Job College. * It was a pleasure to see the ‘campus’ that has grown out of your vision to see Christ honoured following the death of your sons. * It was a joy to meet your ‘daughters’ and to have the opportunity to share in the morning chapel services. * It was an honour to lecture in the mornings with the college students. I so enjoyed my time with these students. * It was fun to do the run out to the agriculture project which is a present reality and the ‘hope’ of the future for your sustainability. * It was an honour to spend such a generous amount of time with you.
-Frederick Ralph Bromley, Canada
MICHAEL JOB INSTITUTIONS FOR WOMEN,
COIMBATORE, INDIA
Every year 300 undergraduates or postgraduates pass out of Michael Job Memorial College of Education for Women and Michael Job College of Arts and Science for Women carrying the torch of the Good News all over the Indian subcontinent.
130 undergraduate students of the 2010 batch of Michael Job College of Arts and Science
with Dr. P. P. Job and faculty members.
FREE ADMISSION FOR CHRISTIAN GIRLS
FOR POST GRADUATE DEGREE COURSES
Affiliated to Barathiar University, Coimbatore under Tamil Nadu Government and UGC.
No fee, No capitation, No donation. Apply immediately with your pastor’s introduction.
Courses: M.Sc. Mathematics, M.Sc. Zoology, M.Sc. Information Technology,
M.Sc. Software Technology and M.Com. Information Technology.
Hostel facility is available on payment of Rs. 2000 per month. (Food and Accommodation only.)
Contact: Principal, (Phone number: +91 9994361833). Michael Job Centre,
Near Sulur Boat Lake, Coimbatore – 641 103.
PERSECUTION IN INDIA
Even a Dead Christian Not Spared – A mob of about 150 Hindu extremists allegedly from the Bajrang Dal, shouting Hindu slogan exhumed the dead body and dumped it 3 kms away from the cemetery on March 17 in Arsikere, Karnataka. According to reports, just as the funeral procession of late Isaac (50), member of St. Thomas Church, was over, the extremists forcefully entered into the cemetery, exhumed the body, and tossed it into a tractor while reprimanding the Christians to carry the dead body to Rome or America, as the dead body of a Christian may contaminate the soil. The mourners present at the site pleaded with the extremists to spare the dead body and ran after the truck. Later they managed to take hold of the dead body back to the cemetery and reported the matter to the police. However, the police advised the Christians to remain silent about exhuming the body and to bury the dead body in another cemetery, to avoid further attack from the extremists. The dead body was buried in the church of South India cemetery at midnight, one kilometer away from the St. Thomas cemetery.
False Complaints Galore – Pastor Jailed - Karnataka police arrested a pastor after allegedly Hindu extremists lodged a complaint against him of forceful conversion on March 15 in Borgunta, Sullai Taluk, Mangalore. The incident took place when Pastor Valsalan of Bethesda Assembly of God’s Church and his family were visiting a church member’s home when about 30 Hindu extremists barged into the house and accused the pastor of forceful conversion. They then filed a police complaint and the area Bharathiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA and other extremists pressured the police authorities to arrest the pastor. The pastor was sent to central jail in Mangalore.
Karnataka Attacks - The attacks in Karnataka seem to be worse that Orissa, besides being more wide-spread and happening at regular intervals, since the last two years that the Bharathiya Janata Party (BJP) has come to power. Its time Christians move for a dismissal of the state government. To begin with, the least we can do is express our serious concern through emails to the Governor and CM: rbblr@vsnl.com ; cm@kar.nic.in We, Christians in India, request you to halt to the over 1000 attacks, against Christians and minorities in Karnataka since the BJP came to power. We urge you to intervene at the earliest and stop such persecution.
2010 International Conference and Fellowship
of Friends of Martyred & Persecuted Christians,
COIMBATORE
2010 International Conference will be held from 25th to 27th June 2010
at Michael Job Centre, Near Sulur Boat Lake, Coimbatore-641103, South India.
Registration fee for an Indian delegate is Rs. 1000/- by M.O./Cheque/DD
in favour of ‘Love In Action Society’, payable at New Delhi.
Address: V-31, Green Park Main, New Delhi – 110 016.
This includes food and accommodation. Michael Job Centre is 15 km away
from Airport and 25 km away from Coimbatore Railway Station.
If you are interested, please send one photo along with registration fee.
AWARENESS RALLY IN INDIA Against
Discrimination of Girl child
Thousands of school girls will participate to walk on the streets of
Coimbatore on Wednesday, 30th June 2010.
Dr. (Mrs.) Saroja Prabhakaran, Vice Chancellor of Avinashilingam University
has consented to flag off the rally.
A NOVEL WAY TO CELEBRATE
BIRTHDAY! WEDDING! WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!
BIRTH OF A CHILD!
With 501 orphaned girls of Martyred and Persecuted Christians
Breakfast US$ 200/- Lunch/Dinner – US$ 300/-
This will provide one meal to 501 girls plus 107 staff members. Send in your photograph (hard or soft copy) and cheque one week before the occasion. The photograph will be shown on the large screen in the Dining Hall where all the children gather. The children will sing “Happy Birthday” or “Count your Blessings” with your name and pray for you. You can witness this through a CD of the day’s celebrations which will be sent to you later.
All crossed Cheques/DD’s/MO’s for the Orphan Children
at Coimbatore may be sent in favour of :
LOVE IN ACTION SOCIETY
V-31 Green Park Main, New Delhi – 110 016, INDIA
E-mail: jjob@pobox.com
Tel: 011-91-11-26517265
www.drjobsmission.com
Please visit our web: www.drjobsmission.com for live programme
