Professor Walter Veith to Visit Southern California

Walter Veith and Francois du Plessis are coming to the Inland Empire to hold a 12-day series of meetings May 11-22. If you live in the area or are planning to be and would like to come, please let the Beaumont SDA Church know by clicking on their poll.

The Beaumont Seventh-day Adventist Church is spearheading the event and handling the donations. You may contribute to this event by mail or online. Checks should be made payable to the Beaumont Seventh-day Adventist Church, and marked "Walter Veith." To designate your online donation for the Walter Veith event, use the "Local Evangelism" category. If you have any questions regarding your donation, please contact treasurer Lynn Jenkins by email jlwjcpa@aol.com or phone 916-966-6966. Send to: Beaumont Seventh-day Adventist Church PO Box 3099 Beaumont CA, 92223 Coordinators for the event are trying to get La Sierra Univeristy to host an afternoon Q&A forum with Veith. La Sierra has not yet agreed to host the forum, but efforts are being made to have this happen. A similar forum is being looked into for Loma Linda University. Please keep these events in your prayers daily. This couldn't have come at a better time. There is sure to be resistance to Veith coming to Loma Linda or La Sierra. If you have any questions, please contact me. To contact us please email Shane Hilde shwinston@gmail.com

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A 10,000 FOOT TSUNAMI?

RUN, RUN, RUN!



Do you know, that recent tsunami in the news – dreadful as

we knew it to be  - was a baby!



What do you make of this?



It knocked me over.



Manuel (a real friend) showed me the other day some

pictures of enormous boulders that were brought from far

away. Some great force must have lifted them up and

carried them.



And, would you believe, they are sitting ALL OVER the

world!



In North America, for example, the Madison boulder near

Conway, New Hampshire, measures 90 by 40 by 38 feet, and

weighs almost 10,000 tons, about as much as the weight of

130,000 people!



Unlike the bedrock beneath, it is composed of granite.

Thus the boulder is called “erratic.”



In Britain and Germany are found many such boulders brought

across the sea from Norway.



Boulders from Finland have been swept over Poland, the site

of Moscow, and as far as the River Don.  Often they are

frighteningly piled up.



Huge blocks from Canada and Labrador lie strewn over North

America.  Some are plain GIGANTIC.



An erratic boulder in Warren County, Ohio, covers ¾ acre

and weighs 13,500 tons (the load of a large cargo ship).



And near Malmo, southern Sweden, is a mass of chalk stone

1,000 feet wide, up to 200 feet thick and THREE MILES LONG!



CARRIED BY ICE?



Manuel asked me, Could these boulders have been carried by

ice?



Definitely not!



But why not?



Some are found high up on mountains. But observations in

the Alps have shown that glaciers carry stones downhill,

not uphill.



Also, erratic bounders are found in places where

continental ice could hardly have deposited them… on the

Azores, islands separated from the ice cover by a wide

expanse of ocean.



COULD WATER DO IT?



Now you're talking.



Take, for example, the Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea. Here

they are found near the summit, where ONLY WATERS could have

lifted them.



In Europe, huge rocks (one of them 10,000 cubic feet) were

carried from the Alps, across a space now occupied by Lake

Geneva, and hurled 2,000 feet up on to the Jura Mountains,

where they still sit!



Broken off from the parent rock, many were carried over

valleys and hills, over land and sea.



You probably know that the faster water moves, the more it

can erode, the more it can lift.



If water increases in velocity by 4 times, it can transport

not 4 but 54 times as much matter. If it accelerates 100

times, it will carry 50 million times as much material.



THE SPEED OF TSUNAMIS



In 1960, Chilean earthquakes sent tidal waves travelling at

jet speeds of 525 miles an hour (840 kilometres per hour).



Just imagine the POWER in that!



THE HEIGHT OF TSUNAMIS



On July 9, 1958, a wave washed 1,740 feet high along the

fjord-like Lituya Bay, Alaska.



Calculations have been made. If a passing heavenly body

came close earth, this could produce a tide perhaps 10,000

feet high, flowing over the continents once a day at about

1,000 miles per hour at the equator.



Which brings to mind that legendary Great Flood, so often

spoken about by our ancestors.



WHAT ABOUT THE GREAT FLOOD?



Even in today’s relatively small floods, we see bridges,

houses, trees and immense boulders ripped up and swept

along like mere pebbles and matchsticks.  Such floods

seldom rise higher than a few dozen feet.  Their main

force is exhausted in days or hours.



But when we begin to speak in terms of a Flood that

“prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days” and

covered “all the high mountains which are under all the

heavens”, we must face the fact that we are no longer

dealing with phenomena that are familiar to modern science.



In such a Flood we must therefore expect damage that

staggers the imagination.



I put this to you... The Great Flood can explain many

otherwise puzzling geological features of today’s earth.



That this event occurred just a few thousand years ago

can be established by the extent to which the rocks under

the erratic boulders are denuded.



You won’t find a great deal written about this today. It

is dangerous information… An embarrassment to  established

"scientific" theory.



Because, firstly, this event was GLOBAL.



And secondly, it was “RECENT” – more recent than any

traditional dating system allows for.



But if

you'd like to plunge into hundreds of other secrets

about this MEGA EVENT, here's where to go:

http://www.beforeus.com/second.php



DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?



Please email me your questions. I am here to help you

with any questions on ancient mysteries. Just email

me at info@archaeologyanswers.com

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California wants lesbians as mandatory 'role' models 'worst school sexual indoctrination ever'

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HOMOSEXODUS!

California wants lesbians as mandatory 'role' models

Family advocates call plan 'worst school sexual indoctrination ever'

By Bob Unruh © 2011 WorldNetDaily

California state lawmaker Mark Leno

Lawmakers in the state of California are proposing a law that would require schools to portray lesbians, homosexuals, transsexuals and those who have chosen other alternative sexual lifestyles as positive role models to children in all public schools there.

"SB 48: The worst school sexual indoctrination ever" is how officials with the Campaign for Children and Families describe the proposal, SB 48, sponsored by state Sen. Mark Leno.

Openly homosexual, Leno boasts on his website of founding a business with his "life partner, Douglas Jackson," who later died of AIDS complications.

That description as "worst" is considerable, considering the Campaign for Children and Families was a key player in the battle in the state in 2007 and 2008 over a variety of laws that now forbid any "adverse" portrayal of those alternative sexual choices in school, class, curriculum and by teachers.

Find out why laws promoting homosexuality are being developed, get "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom"

On its website, the organization explains the plan by "homosexual activist" Leno "would require all students in social studies class to admire 'lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender' role models.

"The Democrat state legislators pushing this radical bill want to recruit boys and girls to support the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda, personally and publicly," the organization's Action Alert explains.

"They want them to become 'LGBTIQ' activists [and] help trample religious freedom, free speech, parental rights, business-owner rights, private property rights, the Boy Scouts, and everything else you hold dear."

Equality California, an organization that advocates for homosexuality, said others sponsoring the plan include Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego; Assembly member Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco; Assembly member Toni Atkins, D-San Diego; Assembly member Rich Gordon, D-San Mateo; and Assembly member Ricardo Lara, D-East Los Angeles.

On his state website, Leno expressed his worry: "Most textbooks don't include any historical information about the LGBT movement, which has great significance to both California and U.S. history.

"Our collective silence on this issue perpetuates negative stereotypes of LGBT people and leads to increased bullying of young people. We can't simultaneously tell youth that it's OK to be yourself and live an honest, open life when we aren't even teaching students about historical LGBT figures or the LGBT equal rights movement," he said.

He said it is confirmed that where schools promote homosexual lifestyles, those who exhibit that lifestyle "are treated more fairly by their teachers and peers."

But the Campaign for Children and Families, which teaches people to stand up for "what's right in God's sight" and encourages them to challenge "liberal forces" and "impact the next generation," is promoting a campaign to have state residents contact state officials with their own concerns

The message warns that if the plan becomes law, "children as young as kindergarten will be taught to admire homosexuality, same-sex 'marriages,' bisexuality, and transsexuality.'"

"Children will be enticed into political activism in support of everything pushed by 'lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning' political groups, as the bill requires 'particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society.'"

Further, it would require that "teachers will be made to positively portray homosexuality, same-sex 'marriages,' bisexuality, and transsexuality … because to be silent opens them up to the charge of 'reflecting adversely.'"

"This is radical, in-your-face sexual indoctrination that parents genuinely don't want and children certainly don't need," the statement says.

The California Legislative Counsel's commentary on the plan affirms it would "require instruction in social sciences to also include a study of the role and contributions of Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans … to the development of California and the United States."

It also would require "alternative and charter schools" to "take notice of the provisions of this bill."

The law itself requires that schools teach "particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society."

The Campaign for Children and Families, run by executive Randy Thomasson, notes that it would demand that school boards select textbooks and other materials that actively promote homosexuality, because to be silent "opens them up to charges of 'reflecting adversely.'"

It also notes parents would not be able to exempt their children from the mandatory teaching.

Thomasson told WND that this is the next progression following a multitude of earlier laws adopted in California that serve the dual purpose of cracking down on traditional families and promoting the "alternatives."

"The California public schools are no longer safe places for boys and girls morally," he told WND. "This new bill, SB 48, reflects the desire of the Democrat state legislators to recruit boys and girls to support the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda both personally and publicly."

Under the law, he said, "textbooks, teachers and school boards will be forced to promote homosexuality, same-sex 'marriage,' bisexuality, transsexuality, sex change operations, cross dressing as positive role models."

"Pushing this slop bucket in the face of impressionable kids is disgusting to most people," he said.

It was just two years ago when the Campaign launched the Rescue Your Child effort to encourage parents to withdraw their children from public schools because of such indoctrination.

That followed work by the legislature and then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to establish Senate Bill 777 and Assembly Bill 392 as law. Those institutionalized the promotion of homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism and other alternative lifestyle choices by banning any "adverse" references in schools.

Homosexual former San Francisco leader Harvey Milk

At the time, officials said SB 777 "functionally requires public school instructional materials and school-sponsored activities to positively portray cross-dressing, sex-change operations, homosexual 'marriages,' and all aspects of homosexuality and bisexuality, including so-called 'gay history.'"

The second bill, AB 394, "requires public schools to distribute controversial material to teachers, students, and parents which promotes transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, all under the guise of 'anti-harassment' training."

Those laws ban in any school texts, events, class or activities any discriminatory bias against those who have chosen alternative sexual lifestyles, according to Meredith Turney, legislative liaison for Capitol Resource Institute.

But there are no similar protections for students with traditional or conservative lifestyles and beliefs. Offenders will face the wrath of the state Department of Education, up to and including lawsuits.

California also has mandated that public schools honor Harvey Milk – a homosexual activist and reported sexual predator, as well as an advocate for Jim Jones, leader of the massacred hundreds in Jonestown, Guyana.

SaveCalifornia.com led a statewide battle against "Harvey Milk Day" before California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the S.B. 572.

The bill designates May 22 – Milk's birthday – a date of "special significance" and encourages all California public schools to "conduct suitable commemorative exercises … remembering the life of Harvey Milk and recognizing his accomplishments as well as the contributions he made to this state." Read more at www.wnd.com

 

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Scores of bodies unearthed at Iraq grave site

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities have unearthed more than 150 bodies in an area northeast of Baghdad that saw some of the worst fighting in the war, police and local officials said Saturday.

A military source and a local tribal leader said the bodies were al-Qaeda fighters buried in individual graves near Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, while a local police official said they belonged to victims of the Islamist militant group.

"One hundred and fifty three individual graves were unearthed yesterday and today in a remote area outside Baquba," a military source in Diyala told Reuters on condition of anonymity. "They were buried according to the regular way of Islam. All were wrapped with a white shroud."

Ethnically and religiously mixed Diyala was one of the most volatile provinces in Iraq during the peak of sectarian fighting in 2006-07, when tens of thousands of people were killed.

The graves were found in a village called Khaz'alla, south of Buhriz, about 60 km (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, the military source said. The area was largely under control of al-Qaeda in 2005-07, until Iraqi and U.S. forces launched an offensive to push the fighters out in 2007.

Lieutenant Colonel Ghalib al-Jubouri, a Diyala police spokesman, said the bodies were victims of al Qaeda, although they were "decomposed and cannot be identified."

A tribal leader in Khaz'alla said the site was well-known as "the cemetery of mujahideen," a reference to the al Qaeda fighters who battled U.S. and Iraqi forces.

"We know this place ... al-Qaeda used to bury its fighters in this cemetery in 2005, 2006 and 2007," he said.

(Writing by Waleed Ibrahim; Editing by Jim Loney and Peter Graff) Read more at www.reuters.com

 

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Criminal Aliens Mexico Video

WARNING: Criminal Aliens of Mexico | The Federal Observer

http://www.federalobserver.com/2011/02/12/warning-criminal-ali...

Criminal Aliens Mexico Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeB1svTgtSI&feature=player_embedded#at=309



NOTE: Although the publisher of this site has been a life member of the sponsoring organization since the year of this nations’s Bi-Centennial, I no longer condone the NRA. They have sold out America far too many times. The cost is too high, for the benefits received. They do NOT speak for me, but… I strongly urge you to watch this video. If you want to understand what Arizona, Texas and New Mexico, and California are dealing with – then it’s imperative that you watch the video, again and again – then pass it along. (Ed.)



This video on our border issues is 100% correct and true. I live 45 miles from the border. We see many Border patrol agents every day. They are catching groups of criminal illegal aliens here every single day and night. They caught 7 on our property last Sunday!



The problem hardly makes national news.



Last year 11 volunteers in 2 hours collected 740 pounds of trash left behind by drug smugglers, it filled a large trailer and was mostly burlap drug load wrappers.



Mexico has some of the toughest gun laws in the world, even possession of a single bullet is jail time or worse. Yet they are hopelessly out gunned by the cartels. Mexico is a failed Narco state and it has been over flowing into the United States.



The video is sponsored by the NRA, member or not, firearm owner or not, join or not…Please watch this and pass it onto everyone you know.



We are far along the path of loosing this country and the cartels know it. They have teamed up with middle eastern terrorists to move drugs and people.



Don’t come crying to me when we loose this country…my answer will simply be, I told you so…



Jeff Gee

Arizona

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Police frustrated after man dies near Adventist emergency room

By Kerry Tomlinson KATU News and KATU.com Staff Story Video

Inset: Birgilio Marin-Fuentes.

PORTLAND, Ore. - A 61-year-old man died after driving himself to a hospital early Thursday morning and police said they were frustrated that the hospital’s policy delayed the man getting treatment. But the hospital said the police are confused about its policy. Birgilio Marin-Fuentes was not feeling well and drove himself to Portland Adventist Medical Center in Southeast Portland just after midnight. He crashed his car into a light pole in the hospital’s parking lot about 100 feet from the emergency room. Someone saw Marin-Fuentes unconscious and got a hold of police who were already at the hospital for an unrelated reason. Police said they did CPR and one of them ran to the emergency room to get more help. Lt. Kelli Sheffer, with the Portland Police Bureau, said the officers were under the impression the ER refused to help, saying they needed to call an ambulance because of a hospital policy that prohibited them from treating people unless the patients are inside the ER doors. “You know, there’s a good reason for it, I’m sure,” said Sheffer. “Does it help in the heat of the moment when there’s high emotion and high frustration? No, it’s difficult.” However, Dr. Kelli Westcott with Portland Adventist said they don’t have a policy barring them from treating someone on the grounds. “It is very unfortunate that was the perception that the police officer had,” she said. “But it’s certainly is not the reality and has never been the reality. We have a system in place to respond all over campus.” According to the hospital, the officers may have been confused because the emergency room staff called for an ambulance since the problem was reported to them as a car crash. An ambulance would have the stabilization tools and a rescue truck would have the tools to get someone out of the car if necessary. The medical examiner said Marin-Fuentes died of heart disease. U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, said he’s troubled by what happened and issued a statement saying, “If these reports are true, it is not just heartbreaking, but incomprehensible that a hospital fully capable of treating this medical emergency left police officers with no medical equipment to tend to a patient. I am calling for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services to conduct an independent investigation of this matter to ensure that federal laws are enforced and Oregonians are protected.” According to Seth Chandler, a health law expert with the University of Houston, the federal Emergency Treatment and Active Fair Labor Act says that a hospital must treat patients without questions about whether they can pay. The law now says that if a person is within 250 yards of a hospital, and the people inside know there’s a patient out there, they have to come out to treat the person. It can be a disincentive to have the hospital’s doctors or nurses running out to the parking lot to help someone who they’re not sure has insurance or the ability to pay. If the patient isn’t insured, the hospital could be on the hook for the cost of care and any liability issues. Listen to the recording of the emergency response to Portland Adventist Note: Portions of long silences have been edited out. Family Demands Answers Marin-Fuentes’ family doesn’t understand why he didn’t get the help they say could have saved his life. Claudia Luis-Garcia met Marin-Fuentes 10 years ago at a job detailing cars. They’ve been together ever since. Her brother said Marin-Fuentes was a good father-figure. His last words were to tell Luis-Garcia to stay with the children while he went to the hospital because he was coughing a lot. He said he would be back later. Luis-Garcia said she still doesn’t understand why a man who helped everyone couldn’t get the help he needed. KATU News reporters Anna Canzano and Meghan Kalkstein contributed to this report. Read more at www.katu.com

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Ore. man dies after staff at Adventist hospital tells police call 911

By WILLIAM MCCALL Associated Press Story Video

Inset: Birgilio Marin-Fuentes.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The death of an Oregon man just feet from an emergency room has left his family in grief, upset police and drawn a request for an investigation from a congressman, all asking why an officer was told to call 911 for a heart attack victim just outside the hospital door. Birgilio Marin-Fuentes had driven to Portland Adventist Medical Center shortly after midnight Wednesday, unable to sleep or stop coughing, then crashed his car into a pillar and wall inside the first level of the hospital parking garage under an "emergency parking only" sign about 125 feet from the emergency room entrance. By the time somebody noticed the 61-year-old Cuban immigrant in his car and told a police officer in the emergency room, about 20 minutes had gone by. Officers Angela Luty and Robert Quick found Marin-Fuentes unconscious and unresponsive and began cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A third officer, Andrew Hearst, went to the ER intake desk and told them what was happening. He was told to call 911. "The officers recognized this man needed medical attention immediately, and two officers began CPR immediately, and a third officer went to ask for assistance, and they were told they had to wait until an ambulance arrived," said Sgt. Pete Simpson, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman. Judy Leach, a hospital spokeswoman, said emergency room staff was told it was a car crash and they were following the proper protocol by instructing police to summon an ambulance crew. "With an automobile accident you don't know if the patient needs to be extricated or transported," Leach said Friday. "There are protocols in place to ensure the right thing is done for the right patient at the right time." She said hospital security officers equipped with a mobile defibrillator were dispatched, and a paramedic went outside to check on the situation. But Simpson said officers did not receive any medical assistance and were left to fend for themselves until the ambulance arrived and the crew wheeled Marin-Fuentes the short distance to the emergency room aboard a gurney. "It's a traumatic experience to give CPR and have a person not survive, especially to be that close to a hospital with trained medical personnel right there who could have assisted," Simpson said. U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer said Friday he has asked the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to conduct an independent investigation to make sure the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act approved in 1986 was followed. The act requires all Medicare participating hospitals with emergency departments to treat any critically ill patients on their premises, including parking lots, Blumenauer said. Blumenauer said he was "deeply concerned" about the way the incident was handled and has been in contact with both national and state hospital associations "to make sure everybody gets their signals straight." Mark McDougal, a Portland attorney representing the family of Marin-Fuentes, said the family was pleased that Blumenauer has asked for a federal investigation. "It is particularly disturbing that the hospital has given an account which is directly contradicted by the officers at the scene," McDougal said. Efforts by The Associated Press to reach the victim's wife, Claudia Luis Garcia, on Friday were unsuccessful. But she told The Oregonian she believes if she had insisted on driving with her husband to the hospital, he might still be alive. "They left him to die," Luis Garcia said.

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Adventists, Abortion, and Trademarks?

by SR-admin

A recent article in the Washington Post has brought into the open the hypocritical stand of the Seventh-day Adventist church in remaining silent against the practice of abortion while its large worldwide network of 170 hospitals and clinics allows elective abortions. What is singularly tragic in this strange paradox is the efforts of the church leadership, most notably the pastor/evangelist Kevin Paulsen, to defend this heinous practice. Predictably, as sincere Adventists are awaking to this shocking reality that has been going on behind the scenes since the 1970’s, individuals and independent ministries are rising to protest Paulsen and the church stand on this issue.

An underlying development in this controversy which is not being widely publicized has to do with the corporate Seventh-day Adventist church’s use of its trademarked names (Seventh-day Adventist, Adventist, etc.) to silence voices of dissent. In particular, the Washington Post article published on January 24, 2011, the 38th anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion in the United States, had a number of links that mysteriously went dead shortly after the article was published. These links were to some historical research by George B. Gainer demonstrating the shifting stand of the church leadership over the issue of abortion practices in its hospitals and a vigorous discussion amongst concerned Adventist believers on a Facebook page named “Adventists for Life”. The most alarming aspect to this story posted on the blogs Big Blue Wave and Lets Focus on Life revealed that the Seventh-day Adventist church leadership went to Facebook and had them shut down the Adventists for Life discussion page claiming it was an unauthorized use of the SDA brand name and a “copyright infringement”! According to the Blue Wave blog owner . . .

Mark Price, a Canadian SDA’er who was in charge of the page, alerted the 600 members of the group that he’d been silenced. “The Adventists For Life group is not an organization but an informal gathering of Seventh Day Adventists who are pro-life,” he wrote me. “I am very concerned, as you are, about this kind of power that the Adventist leadership have to shut people up.”

All Seventh-day Adventists should be deeply concerned about these developments and should raise questions about this hypocrisy for the church leadership to use its trademarked name to silence the voice of dissent from among its very own members while claiming to be champions of religious liberty for the rest of the world.  If this trend goes unchecked then who will be able to call sin by its right name without being muzzled like an ox? A strange inconsistency indeed.

Here is a link to a historical review on where the pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist church stood on abortion. Read more at shepherds-rod-speaks.org

 

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Indian Jesuit college honors Dalai Lama

By Philip Mathew, Bangalore

A view of the St. Joseph's College in Bangalore

A Jesuit-run college in southern India honored Dalai Lama inviting the Tibetan spiritual leader to its prestigious annual program.

“We invited him to show our solidarity with him and the Tibetan struggle,” Father Ambrose Pinto, principal of St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, told ucanews.com yesterday.

The Tibetan spiritual leader was the guest speaker at the Josephite Summit, a meeting of past and present students, their parents and the college’s well wishers.

Some 3,000 people attended this year’s summit on Jan. 30.

Father Pinto described Dalai Lama as the mahatma (great soul) of the world. “By inviting him we wanted to affirm the diversity of the world we live in, and send a message that Buddhism was a great religion and we have great respect for it,” Father Pinto added.

The Dalai Lama praised Christian contributions to India’s education sector. The 76-year old Buddhist monk said the Tibetan struggle is not for separation from China but to preserve “our way of life and culture.”

According to the Dalai Lama, conversion through monetary and other inducements is harmful and against religious principles.

Conversion without the full awareness and knowledge of a religion by a person is unfair, he added. He said some Buddhists in Mongolia have joined Christianity lured by money.

The Nobel Peace laureate also disapproved of Hindu extremists attacking churches on the pretext of checking alleged conversions. Such incidents are against the tolerant nature of Hinduism, which he said is the most inclusive religion in the world.

The Tibetan spiritual leader termed India as a model of ahimsa (non-violence) and religious harmony. He said everyone knows the sporadic incidents of communal disharmony in India are caused by “mischievous elements.”

Some 100 Tibetan students study in the college, which was founded 128 years ago. It imparts graduate, post-graduation and research education to more than 5,000 students.

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