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A Call to Take Action – Amit Shah’s Involvement In Transnational Repression
Friends,
In light of the recent escalating incident of transnational aggression initiated by the Indian government, FIACONA has joined with other human rights advocacy organizations to sign this urgent letter addressed to the US Secretary of State and the US Secretary of the Treasury.
Please share this letter widely with your churches, churches, elected representatives, denominations and media contacts.
The Honorable Antony Blinken
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
The Honorable Janet Yellen
Secretary of the Treasury
U.S. Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20220
Dear Secretary Blinken and Secretary Yellen,
We, the undersigned, call on you to impose immediate and comprehensive travel and financial sanctions on India’s Home Minister, Mr. Amit Shah, following revelations by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Shah allegedly orchestrated illegal extortion and assassination operations within Canada…
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FIACONA is a Washington, D.C.-based voluntary, charitable organization that advocates on behalf of the one million-strong Indian American Christians from all 50 states and Canada. It is a coalition of Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent church and civic organizations, primarily comprising Indian Americans. FIACONA serves as a bridge builder for ecumenical advocacy, focusing on reducing violence against Christians in India. Our mission is to preserve the socio-political space of the Christian church from encroachment by nationalist radical groups acting in the name of Hinduism, as well as their representatives in the Indian government.
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Open in new tab This Thursday evening at 6:30pm if you live in the Atlanta area please join FIACONA board member Rev. Peter Cook and I at this restaurant to touch base on what we can do in Atlanta with Christians and other people of faith to advocate for human rights in India and address Hindu supremacy and nationalism in the U.S.
Zouk (Duluth) Restaurant. Here is the address:
https://maps.google.com/maps/place//data=!4m2!3m1!1s
0x88f5a3e358f7bd29:0x7c8784995227ca58?
https://politicalresearch.org/2024/10/15/haf-way-supremacy Please read and share very widely this new report published by FIACONA’s partner SAVERA. This is an up-to-date and in-depth report on the organization and impact of Hindu supremacist groups within the United States. If we do not address these groups, we have no way of influencing policies in India. Please read the report in detail, share it widely with your colleagues and your churches. Reach out to me if there are any questions or if there is interest in FIACONA helping to interpret the report to your constituencies thank you.
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Faith, Freedom, and Fallout: The U.S. Puts India on Notice Over Religious Rights
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VHP drug claim ‘hurts’ Christians: Assam church leaders to discuss response
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“SCOURGE OF RELIGIOUS NATIONALISMS” – OUR INTERFAITH WITNESS
PRESS RELEASE: "SCOURGE OF RELIGIOUS NATIONALISMS" – OUR INTERFAITH WITNESS FIACONA joined two interfaith press conferences on religious nationalisms on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival in the United Nations in New York City, NY New York, NY—September 20, 2024 This
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“That India under Modi would have the audacity to think that they can strip away our legal constitutional rights to freedom of expression here, not in India, but here in America,” I told @RNS.
No longer, then, does opposing Modi merely mean taking a righteous humanitarian stand against his regime’s Mephistophelian designs on India’s religious minorities. No. Today, opposing Modi has become the duty of every true American patriot as it now means defending the sacrosanct…
"Scourge of Religious Nationalisms" Press Conference: September 20, 2024 at 777 United Nations Plaza, New York City, NY
More than 13,000 people gathered in Long Island yesterday to see and hear Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak. But outside the venue, anti-Modi protests of about 300 faith-led activists converged.
Indian diaspora protesting against Modi in New York- The Modi regime is not only demolishing mosques and lynching Muslims, it is burning down churches and killing Christians in India. In Manipur alone, 400 churches have been burned down!
This ‘over acting’ lady was flown from Delhi to America to do this drama during Modi’s visit!
FIACONA board member speaking at protest against Modi in New York.
Militants with the Hindu nationalist RSS paramilitary invade a Christian church and beat up the pastor and congregants in eastern India. Will the American Church take note and speak out against this?
New York City's India Day Parade, organized by @FIANYNJCTNE, prohibited an anti-caste sign.
When ‘India Day Parade’ in New York Refused to Let Me Display a Banner Denouncing Caste Discrimin...
When ‘India Day Parade’ in New York Refused to Let Me Display a Banner Denouncing Caste Discrimination
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