Missionary Forced to Leave Kashmir

Father Jim Borst, a Dutch Catholic missionary who has been in Kashmir since 1963, is being forced to leave the Indian province because the two schools he runs are simply too good. This fact is apparently embarrassing to the local Islamic supremacists who cannot stand the fact that these two Christian schools outperform the local madrasas or Islamic religious schools that focus largely on indoctrination rather than education. It also bothers them that some small element of Kashmir society is not controlled by Islam. Kashmir is almost entirely Muslim (97% of the population) and many prominent Muslims have sent their children to the two schools because of the quality of education received. The schools have never had the goal of proselytizing among the Muslim population. This, however, is the charge leveled against Fr. Borst, that he was trying to convert children to Christianity. Read more in the story published on AsiaNews.it. Additional details are also available on this website devoted to the persecution of Christians in India.