“FCRA Rules: Why missionaries and jholawallas are angry – Virendra Parekh”, Bharata Bharati, July 04, 2026
“FCRA registration will no longer operate as a general permission to receive foreign money. Regulatory focus has shifted beyond registration to the purposes for which foreign contributions are received, their actual utilisation and governance of recipient organisations. Any breach of rules would invite serious consequences. – Virendra Parekh
The foreign-funded ecosystem is up in arms. To its dismay, the Modi government has shown the temerity to ban use of foreign money for religious conversions and also block its channelization to political campaigns and agitations.
Understandably, the Church is immensely incensed. The Church exists to convert and foreign money is like oxygen to it. Prayers are held at several places for divine intervention to reverse this outrage. But the Church is not alone. Lots of NGOs, acting as front for foreign governments, spying agencies and terrorist organisations under innocuous names, share its anger and frustration. The ecosystem has induced the Kerala assembly to pass a resolution urging the central government to step back……..”
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