India
India is a country located in South Asia, bordered on the north by China, Nepal and Bhutan, on the east by Myanmar; northwest Pakistan and the Indian Ocean to the south. Situated north-east India and north of the Bay of Bengal is Bangladesh.
In 1991 were implemented economic reforms that transformed the country into one of the world's largest economies, however, by a insufficient infrastructure, heavy bureaucracy, high interest rates and a high social divide (rural poverty, illiteracy, caste system, corruption. ..) the country's economy is constantly suppressed, which prevents the operation of all its power. Its per capita income is considerably lower, about 50% of the population depends directly on agriculture to survive and more than 40% of the population is below the poverty line.
The industry and services, in turn, has developed rapidly in recent years representing respectively 26% and 55% of Gross Domestic Product. Unlike agriculture represents only 18%.
The predominant religion is Hinduism in India, about 80% of the population, and the remainder is divided 11% Muslim, 3.8% and 5.2% other Christian.
Hinduism is one of the oldest religions of the world. There is a founder of this religion, unlike other Hinduism and made an entire intersection of values, philosophies and beliefs derived from different peoples and culturas.Para understand Hinduism, it is important to situate it historically. Around 3000 BC, India was inhabited by people who worshiped the Father of the universe, a kind of monotheistic faith. Shortly afterwards, in 2500 BC Dravidian civilization flourished in the Indus valley, a region that today corresponds to the part of Pakistan and India. The Dravidians were followers of a philosophy of nature worship, matriarchal and guidance based on the principle of nonviolence. However, in 1500 BC, the Aryans invaded and occupied the region, reducing the ancient Dravidians to the condition of "rogue" - a sort of sub-class, which even today remains the lowest caste of Indian social pyramid.
The caste system establishes a rigid social segregation, through which explains the role of each individual in society. This, in fact consolidates huge social inequalities in the country, since the change from one individual to another caste is considered a great insult to the Hindu religion.
The classification system has evolved to the political-social-religious. In its oldest structure, the system consisted of four castes: the Brahmins (priests), the Kshatriya (warriors), the vaixás (bourgeois) and Sudras (artisans). Each caste has its own standards and is rigorously separated from the others. Not allowed to intermarry, nor the common meal, or joint participation in professional activities. Breaking any of these obligations results in exclusion of caste, by which the individual is deprived of all rights and becomes a social pariah, outcaste.
Later that initial number of varieties increased and reached more than three thousand castes and subcastes, division that still powerfully influence in Indian society, despite the vanishing statutory varieties in 1947. At that time, the system divided the Indian Hindu population by about 17 million Brahmins, twenty million members of the other three castes and more than sixty millions of other categories, among them the untouchables (Harijans, people of God).
Hinduism and Buddhism originated in the country, and Christianity and Islam were introduced in the first millennium AD.
In 1793, William Carey, English shepherd and shoemaker, went to India with his family as deeply missionário.Dedicou first translation of the Bible to one of the local dialects, and after two years (1795) inaugurated the first Baptist church.
The work was very slow, because in seven years even with hundreds of people attending worship services, there was not converted. And in the year 1818, 25 years of Baptist missions in India, there were 600 converts, and thousands of people attending worship services, but Carey had already succeeded in infiltrating the Hindu culture and generating influence for change of habits common to sacrifice children and burn widows with their deceased husbands, showing that these rituals were not even in the very book of Hindu religion.
Since then missionary groups are always present in the country, however, for the most part be of the Hindu religion, Christianity, and not accepted and are greatly persecuted Christians.
Due to the large number of languages the difficulty of biblical material is enormous, since we sent in English and is necessary to translate to at least five local languages, so we need your prayers, that day after day the Gospel of Jesus is increasingly accepted by the Indians.
See Salvation aims to help Christians mainly in the cities Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh all are on the east of India, in Bahía Bengal, supporting them with biblical material, food, clothes and shoes, thus fulfilling the mission of preaching the gospel and more to bring salvation in India.
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