Please donate the 'Tsunami Charity Match' proceeds to a secular charity not to an evangelical ministry like World Vision
ToMalcolm SpeedChief Executive OfficerInternational Cricket CouncilDear Sir,We thank you for trying to help the Tsunami relief work by organizing a 'Tsunami Charity match'. We hope that it will bring... continue reading »
"stop this conversion"
"World Vision is not SECULAR- Most of the Money that Cricket generates comes from Hindus SO it should be channelled through Hindu Organizations or Secular ones"
"RISE HINDUS, DNT SUPPORT THIS MATCH, (probly fixed anyway)"
"A charitable organization with lower overhead and without the ulterior motive to convert should be selected. World Vision's annual report (http://www.wvi.org/wvi/pdf/2003%20Annual%20Review.pdf Page 13) shows that their overhead is 19.2 % (100 - 80.8) and "
"Colonialists used their missionaries as the 4th wing of their military in strangulation of unsuspecting poor people. Beware of colonials in the ICC; for them cricket is just another means to rob your souls."
"let us not mix religious sentiments with the dire humanity in need"
"Visit Indians Against Christian Aggression - http://www.kentaxrecords.com/iaca/intro_about.htm"
"The raised funds should be sent to secular organizations such as UNICEF and the Red Cross, not to religious organizations such as World Vision which seeks to convert those when they are most vunerable. This is not the time to promote religious conversion!"
"ICC - International Christian Council, no doubt about that!"
"Now why would someone donate money to a Christian charity or trust them with money to help others? A lot of people think that this practice by Christians (converting instead of helping) was only done some hundred years ago (and some people wont even belie"
"All of us should rise against these prevailing condtions where people of the lower economic and social strata of the Hindu society are lured into conversion to christianity(sic) with false assurances of 'finding the one true god'(sic), thus explioting the"
"Please opt for a more general institution."
"The money can be donated instead to very well accepted organizations/funds such as the red cross, or the United Nations sponsored organizations."
"NO RELIGION -FOR RELIEF TO VICTIMS OF NATURAL CALAMITIES"
"The money going to evanglical operations is pity. So many have died and organizations trying to their self interest in this dire situtation is sick."