Proselytising organisations can’t get FCRA registration: Madras HC

MADURAI: Religious organisations engaged in converting people of one religious faith to another shall be denied Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration, said Madras high court, adding those that would not affect the nation’s secular fabric and social amity were entitled to obtain registration.Rejecting an FCRA plea of a Kodaikanal-based trust — Kanzeon Public Charitable Trust founded in 2021 — a division bench of Justice G R Swaminathan and Justice M D Sumathi said an ordained Christian priest, Rev Fr Ama Samy S J, was the moving spirit behind it, and said: “One cannot forget the fact that Christianity is a messianic religion. Their theological and religious mission is to bring everyone within the fold of Jesus Christ. There is a saying ‘a leopard will not change its spots’. Unlike Hinduism which is inclusive, the Abrahamic religions are inherently exclusive.