Please donate the 'Tsunami Charity Match' proceeds to a secular charity not to an evangelical ministry like World Vision

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Malcolm Speed
Chief Executive Officer
International Cricket Council

Dear Sir,

We thank you for trying to help the Tsunami relief work by organizing a 'Tsunami Charity match'. We hope that it will bring some solace to the effected families.

Our primary concern is regarding the utilization of the proceeds. It has been mentioned in your brochures and website that the proceeds would be donated to 'World Vision International'. We would like to bring to your attention that World Vision is an evangelical ministry often found to mix 'religious conversion and charity'. One of the India's leading investigative newspaper 'Tehelka' (www.tehelka.com) did an undercover operation and exposed that World vision has been involved in clandestine religious conversion. World Vision International on its website claims "In all World Vision projects, staff are ready to give a reason for their hope and their labours. Christian education is included in project activities whenever appropriate and desired by the community ". Many feel that this is a very mild way to put forth their objective.

The effected regions are largely Budhist, Hindu and Muslim. Due to the extreme zeal among evanglicals to implement 'project Joshua' (i.e., to convert 10-40 Window), we fear that the Cricket Match proceeds may be used for this unintended objective. Therefore we request you not to donate to the money to 'World Vision' and in turn donate to some local secular charities.

Thank you

1044 Signatures

  • Pratap K
  • Jagadish
  • Sudhindra S V
    • Comments
    • Be secular & help the people who are in need
  • Aravind
  • Gaurang D
    • Comments
    • We are sick and tired of brutalities by Missionaries. Enough is enough.
  • MANJUNATH N
  • Gururao K
    • Comments
    • Please stop funding orgainsation like World Vision, which spread hate among religions by converting natives.
  • Vikram A
  • nagaraj p
  • Dr. Rajesh S
    • Comments
    • World Vision is invloved in conversion in several parts of world.
  • Geetha
  • RAMESH KUMAR S
  • harsha n
    • Comments
    • Stop supporting conversion!. Build Homes and country, not change people's religion
  • Rajeev S
    • Comments
    • The proceed can be given to UN afliated organization like Internation red cross, UNICEF etc.
  • Harish
  • R Sundara R
    • Comments
    • The proceeds may please be turned over to the Indian Prime Minister's Relief Fund (to the extent of India's share)
  • Arun M
  • Seema M
  • Umesh
    • Comments
    • I am totally against of donating the proceeds to World Vision, instead you can blindly beleive RSS or any local secular charity.
  • Robin A
  • Dipesh M
  • Sanjeeta
  • jasumati s
  • Narendra B S
    • Comments
    • charities should be free of religion
  • Nainan D
  • Anand S
    • Comments
    • The angry sea swallowed a lot of the living and now they are dead, atleast save the survivors from vultures in guise of saviours. What religion is it, that has to feast on misery?
  • Ajay H P
    • Comments
    • Please do not bring religion in to tragedy and let secular charities to help with the disasters
  • Devyani D
  • Malini
  • Ashok
    • Comments
    • Please don't encourage conversions.
  • Phaneendra
    • Comments
    • Great
  • Bhaskar T
    • Comments
    • I totally agree with this contents of this petitions
  • Jivanbhai P
    • Comments
    • Racist View
  • ravi a
  • kirti a
  • Shashishekhar S
  • deepak u
  • arun
    • Comments
    • I agree with the statement.
  • nand
    • Comments
    • Please don't give money to Non-sense Christain People. they are killer of our motherland.
  • Dilip L. K
  • Vasuvaj
  • chethan
  • Prashant S
  • Vikram D
  • Subbu
    • Comments
    • Do NOT turn the relief effort into conversion or propogration opportunity
  • Raghu R
    • Comments
    • Please donate to non-proseletizing org
  • Aditi K
  • Srini P
    • Comments
    • RELIGION SHOULD NOT BE MIXED WITH RELIF WORK
  • Saurabh
    • Comments
    • Humanitarian work needs to be puritan in nature, free of biases and wrong intent. Religious conversion has in the past resulted in anti-national spirits being elevated and therefore religious conversion to a great extent defies its own aim of spreading coherence and love. Your initiative is appreciated but the onus of keeping this process clean and bereft of wrong intentions is yours as well. I trust you will understand the sentiments invovled.
  • ananth g
    • Comments
    • A laudable effort . The proceeds should go to an equally lodable organization like UNICEF who will help all the children, irrespective of race or creed.